textile
noun (a textile, textiles); adjective-like before a noun (textile factory)
Everyday
- A textile is any cloth or fabric that is woven, knitted or made from threads, such as cotton, wool or silk. tree →
- Textiles is also a school subject or craft where you design and make things from fabric. tree →
In the lessons
In design and technology lessons pupils study textiles: natural and man-made fibres, weaving, sewing. In history it names the textile mills of the Industrial Revolution. Phrases: textile industry, textile mill, textile design, natural textiles.
Examples
- Cotton and wool are natural textiles. tree →
- In textiles class we sewed a cushion. tree →
- The town grew around a big textile mill in the 1800s. tree →
- Polyester is a man-made textile. tree →
- Many children worked in textile factories long ago. tree →
- This museum shows textiles from all over the world. tree →
- Recycling old textiles keeps clothes out of landfill. tree →
Note
Countable; often plural textiles for the subject or the industry. Stress: TEX-tile. Related: texture (how something feels), text (originally from the same Latin word for weaving).
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «textile» in the school dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- «textile» in the school dictionary on Mova free.
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