Meaning of cloth | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A fabric, usually made of woven, knitted, or felted fibres or filaments, such as used in dressing, decorating, cleaning or other practical use.
   countable, uncountable
2. With a clothbound binding; as a clothbound book.
3. Specifically, a tablecloth, especially as spread before a meal or removed afterwards.
   countable, uncountable
4. A piece of canvas scenery suspended from above: a backcloth at the rear of the stage, or a cloth with shapes cut from it so that the audience can see beyond.
5. A piece of cloth used for a particular purpose.
   countable
6. Substance or essence; the whole of something complex.
   countable, figuratively, uncountable
7. (a piece of) woven material from which clothes and many other items are made. a tablecloth; a face-cloth; a floor-cloth; Woollen cloth is often more expensive than other cloths. kleed, lap, doek قِماش، غِطاءالمائِدَه плат pano látka, tkanina das Tuch, der Stoff stof; dug; klud ύφασμαtela, paño riie, lina پارچۀ پشمی kangas tissuבד कपड़ा (vunena)tkanina, sukno anyag; törlő(rongy) kain klæði; dúkur; vefnaður panno, stoffa 布 천 audinys audums; drāna; lupata kain stof, lakenstoff, klede; –duk; –fil...
8. Appearance; seeming.
   countable, figuratively, uncountable
9. Fabric or material formed by weaving, knitting, pressing, or felting natural or synthetic fibers.
10. A form of attire that represents a particular profession or status.
    countable, uncountable
11. A piece of fabric or material used for a specific purpose, as a tablecloth.
12. The priesthood.
    countable, idiomatic, uncountable, with-definite-article
13. Nautical a. Canvas.
    Nautical
14. The characteristic attire of a profession, especially that of the clergy.
15. The clergy: a man of the cloth.
16. (Textiles) a. a fabric formed by weaving, felting, or knitting wool, cotton, etc
17. (Textiles) a piece of such fabric used for a particular purpose, as for a dishcloth

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Examples

“In trumpets for assisting the hearing, all reverbation of the trumpet must be avoided. It must be made thick, of the least elastic materials, and covered with cloth externally.”

““It was last Saturday […] that two boys, playing in the little spinney just outside Wembley Park Station, came across three large parcels done up in American cloth.[…]””

“There were other types of looms for producing various specialised types of cloth, for example fustians and velvets, but there is not space here to discuss these.”

“One day he came, as I thought accidentally, to dinner. My huſband was very much engaged in buſineſs, and quitted the room ſoon after the cloth was removed.”

“The first room the people enter was formerly the Presence Chamber, which is hung completely with black, and at the r-end a cloth of estate, with a chair of estate standing upon the Haut-place under the state.”

“The stole is a long scarf-like cloth that hangs around the neck, over the shoulders and down the front of bishops and priests [generally, two-four inches across].”

“Wipe the surface with a cloth dampened with mineral spirits in order to remove the sanding dust, then brush on a full coat of varnish.”

“. If we look beyond the chaos of each moment, we cannot help seeing that we are but one glorious thread in the cloth of life.”

“The disparate threads contained are, in the cloth of a religious society, ready to revolutionize the world and bring the Kingdom of Heaven into its full reality on earth.”

“. The rhythm of life in rural Asia has followed an unchanging pattern from generation to generation and for the chronically poor it is soaked in the cloth of continued deprivation.”

“A wrinkle in the cloth of time, a cry of soft caress and fragrant dreams to weld the metal fabric souls in blends so held in high regards across the lands and sky.”

“Like all cultural realities, contemporary modernism is packed with its own myths, its own largely unrecognized metaphors, its own poetics literally perceived -- or should we say, "misperceived"? -- its own reifications and idiosyncratic distinctions. And it comes to us decorated in the cloth of emancipation, a new freedom that would seem to liberate us from those restraints and bonds that were the excretions of an older mindset, an alien political and social order, a rigid and stultifying hierarchy now perceived as riddled with superstition, arbitrary premise, and false conjunction — in contrast, of course, to the liberated mindset that bespeaks our own age!”

“Unbelievably, he smiled through his cracked and bleeding lips. A horrible nightmare cloaked in the cloth of good.”

“Not until rehabilitation was wrapped in the cloth of wartime patriotism—a program billed as necessary for the welfare of disabled soldiers—did it receive overwhelming congressional support.”

“After being at your beck and call all these years, he wants a woman, not the consummate teen-ager pretending she's a grownup wrapping her flesh in the cloth of her church.”

“But he could not come in the white cloth of celebration to a burial service, and he could hardly come in the cloth of mourning to celebrate his two decades on the stool.”

“Wearing the cloth of kings would seem to be an appropriate symbol.”

“Occasionally the most fortunate found a jewel, a golden-encrusted dagger, a ring, or some other precious gem which decorated the cloths of glory the Persian chieftains and satraps wore.”

“The Old Testament Ministers of God, Aaron and his sons, who were the priests, wore special 'cloths of service.' They were dressed in 'holy garments' so that they could stand and offer in the Presence of God, being beautified by them and being enabled through them to perform their sacred duties.”

“He is a respected man of the cloth.”

“As someone who finds clear shouts of lively encouragement easier to identify than the “still small voice of calm”, like the prairie rodent I scurried off to various members of the cloth to ask how they ascertained their calling.”

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