What's the difference between cloth and poncho?

Cloth


Definition:

  • (n.) A fabric made of fibrous material (or sometimes of wire, as in wire cloth); commonly, a woven fabric of cotton, woolen, or linen, adapted to be made into garments; specifically, woolen fabrics, as distinguished from all others.
  • (n.) The dress; raiment. [Obs.] See Clothes.
  • (n.) The distinctive dress of any profession, especially of the clergy; hence, the clerical profession.

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.

Poncho


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of cloak worn by the Spanish Americans, having the form of a blanket, with a slit in the middle for the head to pass through. A kind of poncho made of rubber or painted cloth is used by the mounted troops in the United States service.
  • (n.) A trade name for camlets, or stout worsteds.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The singer called off seven concerts, including gigs in London and Liverpool, to give Frank "Poncho" Sampedro time to heal a broken hand.
  • (2) Nine patients slept in the Poncho for two consecutive nights, negative extrathoracic pressure being applied during the second night.
  • (3) According to the singer's long-time guitarist, Frank "Poncho" Sampedro, the ageing band may soon need to call it quits.
  • (4) She has shed a drenched beret and a wraparound poncho-ish garment and has the time-honoured look of an attractive hippy: white cotton shirt, silver and coral bracelets.
  • (5) Trenchcoats, monogrammed scarves and check blanket ponchos, all made in Britain, underpinned sales growth during the financial year ending 31 March.
  • (6) In the second half of the financial year, Burberry said accessories were popular, in particular scarves and ponchos, as well as the new season “runway rucksack” and Banner bag.
  • (7) The increase in FRC was obtained by applying a constant negative extrathoracic pressure (NEP) with a poncho-type respirator.
  • (8) Burberry’s finance chief, Carol Fairweather, said: “We’ve got this absolute focus on our heritage icons, there is a lot more to come from the scarves and poncho story as we move forward this year.” The trenchcoat, made from fabric woven in Keighley in Yorkshire and sewn nearby in Castleford, now uses cotton grown on Burberry’s sustainably managed plantation in Peru.
  • (9) On the other hand, our results demonstrate that the poncho wrap ventilator is poorly tolerated by patients with severe COPD in a typical outpatient setting.
  • (10) In a randomized clinical study on 55 patients with AD and 31 healthy controls, we investigated the irritative capacity of poncho-like shirts made of 4 different materials (A: cotton; B, C, D: synthetics of different fiber structure).
  • (11) As a very self-motivated girl – I had, only the other week, made myself a poncho out of a tablecloth – I wanted to find out something about sex that I could get moving with.
  • (12) Those seeking evidence for such assertions could point to the announcement that the popular PlayStation Plus subscription programme, which brings benefits such as discounted and even free games, plus cloud saves, will carry over from the pS3 to the PS4 as is, and will give PS4 owners immediate access to Drive Club PS Plus Edition when the console launches, plus three free download games – Don't Starve, Outlast and Secret Ponchos – in the three months after launch.
  • (13) They had to change into "rain ponchos" (cellophane, we call it in my house) and combat trousers in the open air.
  • (14) The normally festive parade had turned into a mess of ponchos and crying children.
  • (15) Back in August, Young called off seven British and European gigs to give Crazy Horse guitarist Frank 'Poncho' Sampedro time to heal his fractured hand, before scrapping the rest of their world tour.
  • (16) Orders are being placed for thousands of ponchos so that spectators queuing to get through security checks remain dry and schedules examined to determine how hockey and beach volleyball matches could be rescheduled if they are unable to take place due to violent storms.
  • (17) Inside there were some wellies, a rain poncho, wet wipes, glow sticks, a torch, tissues and other such things.
  • (18) The case of a patient with severe kyphoscoliosis in the phase of chronic respiratory failure (PaO2 34 mmHg and PaCO2 61 mmHg, breathing ambient air) is presented in which, following the failure of negative pressure mechanical ventilation ("poncho"), positive pressure ventilation was tested with a silicon made-to-measure nasal mask as the access via.
  • (19) Pulmonary inflation was achieved by applying a continuous negative extrathoracic pressure into a Poncho type respirator.
  • (20) There’s an opening ceremony on 24 January involving dancing robots, eight Finnish hot tubs, a re-enactment of the Woodstock festival and 18,000 people dressed in shiny aluminium ponchos (free, more details at mons2015.eu ).

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