What's the difference between cashmere and wool?

Cashmere


Definition:

  • (n.) A rich stuff for shawls, scarfs, etc., originally made in Cashmere from the soft wool found beneath the hair of the goats of Cashmere, Thibet, and the Himalayas. Some cashmere, of fine quality, is richly embroidered for sale to Europeans.
  • (n.) A dress fabric made of fine wool, or of fine wool and cotton, in imitation of the original cashmere.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Immunization to provoke a persistent anti-melatonin antibody response at the winter solstice resulted in significantly increased greasy fleece weight, % cashmere yield, and mass of cashmere produced, but no change in fibre diameter in both sexes.
  • (2) has an unlikely new sideline - cashmere football scarves.
  • (3) It was flattering, appropriate (despite inevitable "oo-er, heels at a sports event" comments in the media) and, crucially, the look was not overpowered by Obama's mustard cashmere cardigan – although she was as ebullient and as natural as we have come to expect.
  • (4) Instead, he was re-imagined as a suave gent in a v-neck cashmere sweater, mixing drinks, listening to records, and appreciating the 'finer things in life', like jazz and beautiful women.
  • (5) Cashmere is not a specific breed of goat but rather a type of fine fiber produced by individuals of any breed of goat.
  • (6) There'll be no cashmere babygrows or playsuits, and I've managed to avoid spending £35 on the accessory my friends all seem to be buying, the Bumbo seat.
  • (7) "Dressing for pleasure" and "fun fashion" get a bad rap, especially for women in their middle age, as it is generally assumed that this is a euphemism for women dressing like clowns and not realising that, at their age (huff, huff), they should be wearing beige cashmere.
  • (8) Duff told Zhang: “You identified that 100% cashmere sample as 85% cashmere and 15% unidentifiable fibres.
  • (9) Flick through art and fashion magazines while luxuriating on Fendi cushions, Ralph Lauren bedlinen and cashmere wraps, then follow JJ's tips for places to eat.
  • (10) But I’m afraid that, if I did, I’d be found strangled tomorrow with a Fendi cashmere scarf.
  • (11) He's never had a cashmere babygro, nor Waitrose baby food.
  • (12) Cashmere for the It crowd The TV producer who brought you T4, PopWorld and The Real O.C.
  • (13) Leather palazzo trousers, for God’s sake, the most nonsensical garment, like a denim raincoat, or a cashmere bikini.
  • (14) Successful marketing relies on the notion that a failsafe process can be applied to anything to make it sell better – from personal reputations to cashmere onesies.
  • (15) The epicentre of cashmere growing, inner Mongolia, is built on a tradition of nomadic herding that goes back to Genghis Khan.
  • (16) GCC was found only in Australian Angora and Cashmere animals.
  • (17) A wiry 57, he arrives for lunch at Bar Pitti on Sixth Avenue, New York City, looking debonair in a cashmere Canali sports jacket.
  • (18) Duff told Zhang that Edinburgh Woollen Mill had sent a DNA-tested 100% cashmere sample for her to analyse in August 2016.
  • (19) But you also get genuine 100% cashmere sweaters in 25 colours from giant operators like Uniqlo for £60.
  • (20) The experiments, using a total of 1833 Cashmere does, were conducted to examine the effects on fertility and fecundity of intravaginal treatment for control of ovulation, time of insemination by cervical and laparoscopic methods, semen processing in pellets and straws, and number of frozen-thawed motile spermatozoa.

Wool


Definition:

  • (n.) The soft and curled, or crisped, species of hair which grows on sheep and some other animals, and which in fineness sometimes approaches to fur; -- chiefly applied to the fleecy coat of the sheep, which constitutes a most essential material of clothing in all cold and temperate climates.
  • (n.) Short, thick hair, especially when crisped or curled.
  • (n.) A sort of pubescence, or a clothing of dense, curling hairs on the surface of certain plants.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Release of 51Cr was apparently a function of immune thymus-derived lymphocytes (T cells) because it was abrogated by prior incubation of spleen cells with anti-thymus antiserum and complement but was undiminished by passage of spleen cells through nylon-wool columns.
  • (2) Populations of lymphocytes were separated using glass and nylon wool.
  • (3) Removal of accessory cells adherent to nylon wool column abolished MAS reactivity, whereas it has little effect on lymphoproliferation induced by phytohaemagglutinin (PHA).
  • (4) Somatic changes included reduced wool growth, delayed osseous development in the limbs (X-ray assessment) a reduced heart weight (39.1%) and an increased pituitary weight (48.1%).
  • (5) [35S]Cyst(e)ine activity was detected in the faeces, but not in plasma or wool.
  • (6) Immunoreactivity was restricted to the periderm and intermediate layers of fetal epidermis at 55 d of gestation, when the first wave of wool follicles are initiated.
  • (7) Data obtained with cells separated by adherence, nylon wool columns, and positive and negative sorting with monoclonal antibodies that define B, monocyte, T helper and T cytotoxic cells show that several different cell types have the ability to produce GH mRNA.
  • (8) A case is presented of a patient who was arrested along several developmental lines and had suffered from a wool fetish.
  • (9) Removal of nylon wool adherent cells or cells with histamine receptors by column chromatography similarly caused reduced production of type II interferon.
  • (10) The activity of uremic spleen cells can be enhanced (restored) by removal of the sub-population of cells adherent to glass wool.
  • (11) All skirted lots of wool evaluated in this study had improved processing characteristics for all processing traits evaluated.
  • (12) The in vitro generation of allospecific CTL by human PBMC was enhanced 4- to 16-fold by sequential plastic and nylon wool adherence, which depleted the PBMC of macrophages and B cells.
  • (13) In parallel experiments, macrophages infected with the mycobacteria were co-cultured with syngeneic in vivo M. kansasii sensitized non-adherent, nylon-wool purified lymph node cells, and lymphoproliferation was measured by [3H]thymidine incorporation.
  • (14) "The Lib Dems are either cosmically ill-informed or seeking to pull the wool over the eyes of many thousands whose jobs depend on a thriving shipyard," he said.
  • (15) In general, IEL of satisfactory yield and of good viability were obtained with EDTA treatment of the gut tissues, followed by rapid passages of the resultant cells through nylon-wool columns and centrifugation on two-step Percoll density gradients (45% and 80%).
  • (16) There was a definite glove and stocking type of hypesthesia to pinprick and cotton wool.
  • (17) Since young nude mice could be rendered as unpermissive as older nude mice by pretreatment with either PNA-agglutinable thymus cells or nylon-wool passed spleen cells, it is suggested that an increased number of precursor T cells in older nude mice might induce this effect.
  • (18) Differences in wool production between ewes weaning one or two lambs were small.
  • (19) The effects of flumethasone on some aspects of wool growth revealed interactions between the routes of administration, the period of dosage and the rate of wool growth in the recipients.
  • (20) Streptococcus pyogenes survives poorly on plain cotton-wool swabs, whereas serum-dipped swabs permit its survival but also allow overgrouth by other bacteria and are likely to contain virus inhibitors.

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