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UK
/kˈɒtən/
]
[ US /ˈkɑtən, ˈkɔtən/ ]
[ US /ˈkɑtən, ˈkɔtən/ ]
NOUN
- soft silky fibers from cotton plants in their raw state
- fabric woven from cotton fibers
- erect bushy mallow plant or small tree bearing bolls containing seeds with many long hairy fibers
- thread made of cotton fibers
VERB
-
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
- Wildlife Watching Supplies stock a wide range of materials, olive green or camouflage pattern, lightweight, medium and heavy weight, showerproofed polycotton and waterproof nylon.
- In more traditional settings, people wear boubous, loose-fitting cotton tunics with large openings under the arms.
- Without slave labour the plantations of sugar and cotton could not have been as rapidly developed.
- Denim is identified as an "American cotton textile where the diagonal warp is a striped hickory cloth that was once associated with railroadmen's overalls, in which blue or black contrasting undyed white threads form the woven pattern. My God George Will is a bigger fashion snob than me! - dfi
- Surrounded by cottonwoods and aspens and featuring a wooden footbridge and an abundance of regional flora and foliage, it's a place to meditate, contemplate, and relax.
- Studies in the past showed that subsoiling clay soil in the spring does not improve cotton harvests.