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Blanket
adjective · 78% connection
A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually of wool, and having a nap, used in bed clothing; also, a similar fabric used as a robe; or any…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: elastic, textile, fabric, imitating, knitting.
Bombazine
noun · 78% connection
A twilled fabric for dresses, of which the warp is silk, and the weft worsted. Black bombazine has been much used for mourning garment…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: elastic, textile, fabric, imitating, knitting.
Diaper
noun · 78% connection
Any textile fabric (esp. linen or cotton toweling) woven in diaper pattern. See 2.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: elastic, textile, fabric, imitating, knitting.
Dimity
noun · 78% connection
A cotton fabric employed for hangings and furniture coverings, and formerly used for women's under-garments. It is of many patterns, b…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: elastic, textile, fabric, imitating, knitting.
Drapery
noun · 78% connection
A textile fabric used for decorative purposes, especially when hung loosely and in folds carefully disturbed; as: (a) Garments or vest…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: elastic, textile, fabric, imitating, knitting.
Elastic
adjective · 78% connection
Springing back; having a power or inherent property of returning to the form from which a substance is bent, drawn, pressed, or twiste…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: elastic, textile, fabric, imitating, knitting.
Elastically
adverb · 78% connection
In an elastic manner; by an elastic power; with a spring.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: elastic, textile, fabric, imitating, knitting.
Gas
noun · 78% connection
An aeriform fluid; -- a term used at first by chemists as synonymous with air, but since restricted to fluids supposed to be permanent…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: elastic, textile, fabric, imitating, knitting.
Holland
noun · 78% connection
A kind of linen first manufactured in Holland; a linen fabric used for window shades, children's garments, etc.; as, brown or unbleach…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: elastic, textile, fabric, imitating, knitting.
Ingrain
adjective · 78% connection
Dyed before manufacture, -- said of the material of a textile fabric; hence, in general, thoroughly inwrought; forming an essential pa…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: elastic, textile, fabric, imitating, knitting.
Loom
noun · 78% connection
a textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: elastic, textile, fabric, imitating, knitting.
Manometer
noun · 78% connection
An instrument for measuring the tension or elastic force of gases, steam, etc., constructed usually on the principle of allowing the g…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: elastic, textile, fabric, imitating, knitting.
Moire
noun · 78% connection
Originally, a fine textile fabric made of the hair of an Asiatic goat; afterwards, any textile fabric to which a watered appearance is…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: elastic, textile, fabric, imitating, knitting.
Needle
noun · 78% connection
A slender rod or wire used in knitting; a knitting needle; also, a hooked instrument which carries the thread or twine, and by means o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: elastic, textile, fabric, imitating, knitting.
Plush
noun · 78% connection
A textile fabric with a nap or shag on one side, longer and softer than the nap of velvet.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: elastic, textile, fabric, imitating, knitting.
Resiliency
noun · 78% connection
The mechanical work required to strain an elastic body, as a deflected beam, stretched spring, etc., to the elastic limit; also, the w…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: elastic, textile, fabric, imitating, knitting.
Seam
verb · 78% connection
To make the appearance of a seam in, as in knitting a stocking; hence, to knit with a certain stitch, like that in such knitting.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: elastic, textile, fabric, imitating, knitting.
Shawl
noun · 78% connection
A square or oblong cloth of wool, cotton, silk, or other textile or netted fabric, used, especially by women, as a loose covering for…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: elastic, textile, fabric, imitating, knitting.
