Cottonname詞源 1

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  The name of several settlements around the world:

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  The name of several settlements around the world:

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  The name of several settlements around the world:

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  The name of several settlements around the world:

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  A habitational surname from Old English.

Cottonname詞源 2

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  A surname from Hebrew.

cottonnoun詞源 1/ˈkɒt.n̩/

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  A fibrous substance:

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  A fibrous substance:

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  A plant source:

  • K'a-shih has the most extensive cotton-growing area which amounted to 950 000 mou (6.3 million ares) in 1965.
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  A plant source:

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  businessmanufacturingtextilesA manufactured product of such a substance:

  • Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety. She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.
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  A manufactured product of such a substance:

  • The little girls appeared, looking fresh and cool in pretty pink cottons, and we two elder ones seized the opportunity of making a more elaborate toilette than usual.
  • The old man wore the simplest cottons, faded from long use and countless washings.
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  A manufactured product of such a substance:

  • Do not re-use needles; use fresh cottons each time.
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  A manufactured product of such a substance:

cottonadj詞源 1/ˈkɒt.n̩/

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  Made of cotton.

cottonverb詞源 1/ˈkɒt.n̩/

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  To provide with cotton.

  • Goddamned fools had cottoned the land, and just worked it to death, destroying the topsoil, so it blew away, and then, when the rains came, gullied it, so that it wasn't worth a damn for anything.
  • Eyes closed, ears cottoned, the mind produces its own interior messages.
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  To provide with cotton.

  • Supposing a frame, or set of moulds, as represented at B, to have wicks carried through each mould, or regularly cottoned, and each wick to be held accurately in the centre of the mould by means of the series of nippers shown at fig. 8, the moulds are first taken to the position shown at B 1, figs. 2, 3, and 4, where they are supported in a perpendicular position on the small straight edges or railway d, d, as seen at fig. 3.
  • Each machine has on average 200 moulds, each mould contains 18 bobbins, and each bobbin, when first cottoned, 60 yards of wick, so that supposing all the frames of our seven machines to be fresh cottoned at the same time, we should have above 800 miles of wick in work.
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  To provide with cotton.

  • First comes bottling, which is done both by machine and by hand. This is followed by cottoning and capping.
  • Although cottoning is performed by hand, the hand-capping operation is assisted by a mechanical friction wheel, driven through a flexible cable.
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  agriculturebusinesshorticultureTo provide with cotton.

  • When a tree is to be cottoned the ends from the cops are brought together and tied in a rough knot, which is hitched to a twig. Then, with the tube held upright, the operator walks round the tree as many times as may be necessary to cover it with lines of cotton, raising the metal tube about three feet after each round.
  • I went round and quietly cottoned all the nine holes, and next moring I found all the cottons intact.
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  To provide with cotton.

  • The rooms downstairs were cottoned, the doors re-hung, and a counter put in the record office.
  • Robinson, W., Whitehorse: cottoning and papering 10 rooms, hall and staircase, at sergeant's mess, $206;
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  To provide with cotton.

  • Tar and cotton him," said a student from the college, more facetiously, perhaps, more mercifully inclined. " Think, fellows, what a pretty bird he will be, with cotton for feathers ; — so downy."
  • The Southerners caught him ; and, as a natural consequence of his capture, he was, after a little preliminary cowhiding and railriding, tarred and cottoned; the soft and downy substance growing in the pod of the cotton plant being in the sunny South the substitute for 'the penal plumes' —as Sydney Smith in humorous euphuism called the feathers wwibh, in combination with a coating of pitch, made up the ignominious livery of an offender whom the Americans delight to dishonour.
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  To make or become cottonlike.

  • The finishing operations consisted of shearing the nap from the cloth, and frizzing, or cottoning, the surface, by pressing with hot irons.
  • When the cloth is thus shorn on one side, it is for the most part cottoned on the other side, which they call the wrong side ; but frizes are cottoned on the " right side", for cottoning makes them such.
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  To make or become cottonlike.

  • At this moment he saw the plate cottoning, as he expressed it, to his young friend, Charles Freeland, who sat in the pew at his right. He watched to see what the young merchant would give ; and to his amazement, he saw the young man put in a fifty dollar note!
  • Used at medium to thin consistency to avoid stringing or cottoning and to assure proper spreading characteristics.

cottonverb詞源 2

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  To get on with someone or something; to have a good relationship with someone.

  • What meanes this? doth he dote so much of this strange harlot indeed? now I perceiue how this geare cottens.
  • I want to tell you the Dukes, both mother and son, are cottoning to her fast enough.

cottonnoun詞源 2

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  A liking.