What's the difference between bedclothes and clothes?

Bedclothes


Definition:

  • (n. pl.) Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There are thousands of children every year who grow up in homes where nappies - and bedclothes - go unchanged... ...and where their cries of pain go unheard.
  • (2) The bedclothes and pillows of each subject were laundered and vacuum-cleaned and a plastic cover applied to the mattress for six weeks in an attempt to reduce exposure to mites.
  • (3) These two infants' bedclothes were repeatedly wet with sweat.
  • (4) Younger mothers and mothers in the lower social groups put more bedclothes over their babies, and the latter also kept their rooms warmer.
  • (5) We have examined the relation of perineal colonization by coliforms to bacteriuria and to contamination of bedclothes and other environmental sites with these organisms in spinally injured patients.
  • (6) The couple had tried to protect themselves from the fire by covering themselves with synthetic bedclothes but they had stuck to their bodies.
  • (7) Questionnaires to 542 users of far-infrared radiator disks embedded in bedclothes revealed that the majority of the users subjectively evaluated an improvement of their health.
  • (8) "It can make us feel that the problem is too great and we may as well pull up the bedclothes and wait for disaster.
  • (9) Asthmatic attacks are usually nocturnal, especially in bedrooms with old bedclothes.
  • (10) Residents of the Morleigh Group homes lay in urine-soaked bedclothes, sat in chairs for hours with plates of unfinished food in front of them and waited weeks to receive medical attention, the Care Quality Commission said .
  • (11) Towels and sweat-ridden bedclothes remained for two days in the Dallas apartment where an undiagnosed Ebola sufferer – Liberian citizen Thomas Eric Duncan – was staying because health officials in Texas struggled to find a waste management company willing to accept them.
  • (12) I is reduced if the cot is small, if occupation has been belief, and if the bedclothes are loosely draped over the baby.
  • (13) The neighbours showed the Guardian a pile of melted bedclothes and a woman’s bra lying on the ground surrounded by blood.
  • (14) Previously, there was a tendency to accept the possibility that sexually transmitted disease in children could be transmitted by other means than sexual contact, eg indirectly by infected bedclothes and toilet articles.
  • (15) Perineal colonization was significantly associated with bacteriuria and with contamination of bedclothes, but not with contamination of other sites.
  • (16) And it is true that a lot of female selfie aficionados take their visual vernacular directly from pornography (unwittingly or otherwise): the pouting mouth, the pressed-together cleavage, the rumpled bedclothes in the background hinting at opportunity.
  • (17) Why should humanism have the privilege of looking like dangerous free-thinking, the sort of exciting thing one reads under the bedclothes at night with a torch?
  • (18) By candlelight, under the bedclothes, Littlewood read library books as soon as she was old enough.
  • (19) Picking at the bedclothes and at imaginary objects (carphology and floccillation) are characteristic, as is muscular twitching (subsultus tendinum).
  • (20) Secretions from the mouth and upper respiratory tract appear to be responsible for the early contamination of pillows and bedclothes.

Clothes


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Cloth
  • (n. pl.) Covering for the human body; dress; vestments; vesture; -- a general term for whatever covering is worn, or is made to be worn, for decency or comfort.
  • (n. pl.) The covering of a bed; bedclothes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But when they decided to get married, "finding the clothes became my project," says Melanie.
  • (2) All subjects showed a period of fetishistic arousal to women's clothes during adolescence.
  • (3) His mother, meanwhile, had to issue Peyton with a series of polaroids of his own clothes showing him which ones went together.
  • (4) The Macassans traded iron, tobacco, cloth and gin for access to Yolngu waters.
  • (5) This week they are wrestling with the difficult issue of how prisoners can order clothes for themselves now that clothing companies are discontinuing their printed catalogues and moving online.
  • (6) Thirteen of the fourteen melanomas detected were on anatomic sites normally covered by clothing.
  • (7) This study investigates the use of the incentive inspirometer to observe the effects of tight versus loose clothing on inhalation volume with 17 volunteer subjects.
  • (8) A case-control study of 160 patients with cancers of the nasal cavity and paranasal sinuses and 290 controls showed an excess risk associated with employment in the textile or clothing industries, with the increase (relative risk [RR] = 2.1) found only among female workers.
  • (9) Problems associated with cloth wear and the unexpectedly slow rate, in man, of tissue ingrowth into the fabric of the Braunwald-Cutter aortic valve prosthesis have been discouraging, although this prosthesis has been associated with a very low thromboembolic rate in patients receiving anticoagulant therapy.
  • (10) "When I look at a lot of other bands, it does seem that we're the strange minority," says drummer, Jeremy Gara, who, with his standy-up hair and dishevelled clothes, seems the most old-school indie musician of them all.
  • (11) But this is how we live even before we are forced, through penury to claim: fine dining on stewed leftovers, nursing our one drink on those rare social events, cutting our own hair, patchwork-darned clothes and leaky shoes.
  • (12) Tesco uniforms can be bought through the supermarket's Clubcard Boost scheme, where £5 in Clubcard vouchers equals a £10 spend on clothing, while Asda is offering free delivery on uniform purchases of over £25.
  • (13) A young literature student accused him of manipulating the language, and then – at the end – another woman noted that he spoke very nicely before declaring him “a wolf in sheep’s clothing”.
  • (14) The trip raised millions for Comic Relief but prompted some uncharitable headlines after it emerged in July that Parfitt had billed the taxpayer £541.83 for "specialist clothing" – and a further £26.20 for the cost of picking it up in a cab.
  • (15) Never had I heard anything about what I saw documented so unsparingly in Evan’s photographs: families sleeping in the streets, their clothes in shreds, straw hats torn and unprotecting of the sun, guajiros looking for work on the doorsteps of Havana’s indifferent mansions.
  • (16) So Mick Jagger still wears clothes that he wore when he was 20 – quite possibly the exact same clothes – and the man looks great, because that's who he is.
  • (17) The matter of clothing is closely related to another of Wimbledon’s quiet triumphs: the almost total lack of corporate graffiti in the form of logos and advertising.
  • (18) Should I be killed, I would like to be buried, according to Muslim rituals, in the clothes I was wearing at the time of my death and my body unwashed, in the cemetery of Sirte, next to my family and relatives.
  • (19) On the regulatory side, Carney's role as chair of the Financial Stability Board suggests an individual cut from relatively orthodox cloth while working at the coal face of implementation on a range of issues.
  • (20) You couldn’t walk into the ward in your own clothes.