What's the difference between cotton and muslinet?

Cotton


Definition:

  • (n.) A soft, downy substance, resembling fine wool, consisting of the unicellular twisted hairs which grow on the seeds of the cotton plant. Long-staple cotton has a fiber sometimes almost two inches long; short-staple, from two thirds of an inch to an inch and a half.
  • (n.) The cotton plant. See Cotten plant, below.
  • (n.) Cloth made of cotton.
  • (v. i.) To rise with a regular nap, as cloth does.
  • (v. i.) To go on prosperously; to succeed.
  • (v. i.) To unite; to agree; to make friends; -- usually followed by with.
  • (v. i.) To take a liking to; to stick to one as cotton; -- used with to.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When reformist industrialist Robert Owen set about creating a new community among the workers in his New Lanark cotton-spinning mills at the turn of the nineteenth century, it was called socialism, not corporate social responsibility.
  • (2) Coup leader Captain Amadou Sanogo on Friday pleaded for foreign help to preserve the territorial integrity of the former French colony, a major gold and cotton producer.
  • (3) The relationship between technique of obtaining Papanicolaou smears, presence of endocervical cells, and rate of cervical neoplasia was studied by comparing an endocervical and ectocervical nylon brush (Bayne brush), Ayre spatula plus endocervical brush, and spatula plus cotton-tipped swab in a randomized, prospective trial involving 11,061 patients.
  • (4) Careless Herbicidal aerial spray of a field for weed control and defoliation of cotton before machine picking, resulted in the contamination of an adjoining reservoir, killing large volume of fish.
  • (5) Infection of cotton rats with the recombinant virus induced NS1 antibodies in 1 of 11 animals.
  • (6) Effects of both tricyclic and non-tricyclic drugs on the extrinsic Cotton effects of dicumarol bound to human alpha 1-acid glycoprotein (AGP) have been investigated.
  • (7) Analytical recovery from cotton gloves, solutions of foliar dislodgeable residues, and air-sampling filters was essentially complete.
  • (8) That is happening not only in Brazil, but also in poorer cotton-producing countries such as Burkina Faso, Mali, Benin and Chad.
  • (9) Each of the Lea gene families probably contains two active homeologous genes (alloalleles), one in each of cotton's two subgenomes.
  • (10) The interaction with these lipids, the rotational conformations of the 17-acetyl group, and invertible conformations of the cyclohexenone of PROG were discussed on the basis of the elliptical strength of the Cotton effect and energy estimation of the preferred conformers.
  • (11) This complex is characterized by an increased absorption at 430 nm together with a positive Cotton effect, as also observed in the case of the complex with the competitive inhibitor maleate indicating protonation of the internal aldimine.
  • (12) The cotton root bark, when used as an abortifacient, exhibits the lowest toxicity.
  • (13) It obviously helps to have a waterfront, red bricks and cotton mills,” said Professor Karel Williams at Manchester Business School.
  • (14) Neither acetylcholine nor leukotriene D4 altered tone of arterial rings after the endothelium had been intentionally disrupted by rubbing with a cotton-tipped applicator.
  • (15) Ammoniacal extracts of bloodstains and dried bloodstains on cotton substrata behaved comparably with respect to the parameters studied.
  • (16) In 2004, the dispute settlement body , the "judicial branch" of the WTO, ruled that the US had to reform its cotton subsidies or face "retaliation" from Brazil.
  • (17) A prospective randomized study was undertaken to compare compliance efficacy and cost of the elastic nylon pressure garment (Jobst Institute, Inc., Toledo, Ohio) with the cotton elastic pressure garment (Tubigrip, SePro Healthcare Inc., Montgomeryville, Penn.).
  • (18) Cotton rats that possessed prechallenge rotavirus antibodies that may have been acquired either passively or actively developed neutralizing antibodies against the OSU strain following intranasal administration of the live Ad5-OSU VP4 recombinant.
  • (19) The Canadians had earlier developed a water-filled suit, which the RAF adopted, but comparative trials in 1944 by the Royal Air Force concluded that: "There is no doubt the Cotton Suit gives the best protection."
  • (20) The effect of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection on the electrophysiologic properties of the airway epithelium was studied in tracheas obtained from cotton rats, after in vivo exposure to the virus.

Muslinet


Definition:

  • (n.) A sort of coarse or light cotton cloth.

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