[
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
- 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.