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cotton

[ UK /kˈɒtən/ ]
[ US /ˈkɑtən, ˈkɔtən/ ]
NOUN
  1. soft silky fibers from cotton plants in their raw state
  2. fabric woven from cotton fibers
  3. erect bushy mallow plant or small tree bearing bolls containing seeds with many long hairy fibers
  4. thread made of cotton fibers
VERB
  1. take a liking to
    cotton to something

How To Use cotton In A Sentence

  • The brightly colored outfits may be made of either cotton or such dressy fabrics as velvet, satin, and lamé.
  • The scorched surface should be covered with this liniment and then with a layer of borated gauze or absorbent cotton, to protect from the air. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
  • Owing to different structures of cotton fiber and chitin fiber, they have differentadsorbability to reactive dyestuffs.
  • Carolina in 1760, wrote in his _History of North Carolina_ that the women were the more industrious sex in this section, and made a great deal of cloth of their own cotton, wool, and flax. Woman's Life in Colonial Days
  • The firm puts out 1000 bales of cotton sheeting every week.
  • It is naturally anti-bacterial and antiallergenic and is three times as absorbant as cotton. Times, Sunday Times
  • One ingredient found in almost all tablet or capsule containers is a desiccant - cotton batten or a small canister containing a harmless, water-absorbing compound.
  • Central Asian desert and grow cotton, which tsarist Russia lost access to when the American south, its supplier, began fighting the American north in the Civil A Conversation with Tom Bissell
  • Cotton chintz is firm and the finishing treatment helps shed stains and soil.
  • His mother quilted a cotton - padded anorak for him.
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