textile
part of speech
noun (a textile, textiles); adjective-like before a noun (textile factory)
meaning for a pupil
1) A textile is any cloth or fabric that is woven, knitted or made from threads, such as cotton, wool or silk. tree →
2) Textiles is also a school subject or craft where you design and make things from fabric. tree →
sense 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).
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «textile» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.