cotton
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- noun
- /ˈkɑtən/
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- Could I have some cotton balls for my nose?
- cotton textiles
- cotton cloth
- cotton and wool
So I'm doing what they said and taking a cotton pad to wipe.
- So I'm doing what they said and taking a cotton pad to wipe.
- That's a heavyweight cotton paper from India.
- OK, so in that way cotton linings can work.
- This looks a little bit see through a soft cotton crew.
- This is the vanity code made from wood pulp and cotton fibers.
Examples
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Beautiful women, in slim short skirts or flowing cotton dresses, had roamed the house.
Fiction book (1990) -
Among such luxury items are large, elaborately decorated cotton cloths, which each lineage accumulates over the years.
Academic text (1993) -
Oh man and you had those, like, those nice cotton sheets.
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Do you mind sleeping on cotton sheets?
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Yes, Sofia is wearing a printed cotton dress.
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Several recalled, "we wore thin little cotton white gloves when we were working."
Academic text (2008) -
She was bound for London with a cargo of cotton in her hold.
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They can be a nice brown pair of heavy cotton, nice twill trousers.
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Inside, resting on fluffy cotton, was a long strand of pearls, perfect for baby's teeth.
Fiction book (1990) -
The bright floral pattern on my new cotton shirt makes it perfect for summer.
Synonyms
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Cloth made by weaving or knitting fibers used for clothes and curtains
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A piece of material made by joining threads together and used for making clothes or for cleaning
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A cloth made from fibres used for clothes and home items
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Cotton grown in Egypt with long fibers that is very soft, strong, and long-lasting
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Soft, silky threads from the cotton plant used to make cloth
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Soft, fluffy fibers used for cleaning, medical care, or cosmetic use
Cotton with long soft fibers grown in Peru and used for soft, strong clothes
Soft cotton that soaks up liquids for medical or personal care use
Idioms
Compounds
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Cotton grown in Egypt with long fibers that is very soft, strong, and long-lasting
- Specialized
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A disease caused by a fungus that makes cottony growths on cranberries
- US
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A large dark mouse that lives in woods and swamps in the southeastern United States
- Indian
Solid material left after oil is taken from cotton seeds used to feed animals or as fertilizer
- US
A small tree with large flowers that change from white or pink to deep red in one day
- Specialized
A small bush that grows in salt marshes and has fruit with white fluffy tufts
A shrub that grows in southern Arizona and Mexico and has seed pods with soft fibers like cotton
- Specialized
A cotton plant with short grey fibers that stick to its seeds and are hard to remove
- Specialized
A type of cotton with long fibers that is soft and strong for high-quality clothes and sheets
- New Zealand
A soft fiber from the inner bark of a New Zealand tree used like cotton
- Indian
A soft plant fiber from a tropical tree used to fill pillows and cushions
- Indian
A tropical tree with large flowers that makes cotton-like seed fibers used for stuffing
- Specialized
A cotton plant that makes very long, soft fibers grown on coastal islands
- Specialized
A kind of cotton with short fibers that people use to make coarse cloth
A soft, light fiber from the kapok tree that people use to fill pillows and keep things warm
A very large tropical tree whose trunk has deep grooves and seed pods of soft, fluffy material used for stuffing
A very large tropical tree with a rough trunk and pods of soft fibers around seeds used for stuffing
How Soft
Surface Forms
Etymology
Cotton comes from the Arabic word qutn meaning 'cotton', and it passed into European languages on trade routes. So cotton now means the soft, white material from that plant that we use to make clothes and thread.