(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.
Textile
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to weaving or to woven fabrics; as, textile arts; woven, capable of being woven; formed by weaving; as, textile fabrics.
(n.) That which is, or may be, woven; a fabric made by weaving.
Example Sentences:
(1) 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.
(2) The fabric protection factors (FPF) of 5 metal meshes, to simulate the weave pattern and yarn dimensions of typical fabrics, and 6 textiles with variable construction (woven and knitted), fibre type and dye were determined using a spectrophotometric assay and human skin testing.
(3) The study was conducted to evaluate the effect of ageing on textiles (17.5 months), air temperature (25-45 degrees C) and relative air humidity (RH) (45-85%) on the CH2O release rate from 6 kinds of drapers and furniture coverings.
(4) The cutaneous receptive field was explored with textile fiber sized probes of diameter 20-50 microns, with buckling loads from 75 to 150 mgf.
(5) In this review the results of the interaction of the active dyes used in the USSR textile industry with microbial enzymes and blood serum proteins are discussed.
(6) A couple of years later, he patented a method of producing a water-repellent textile.
(7) I took some Bolivian textiles to the interview and ranted on about Eduardo Galeano and Márquez.
(8) The occupation of the mother was not associated with delivery of a small-for-gestational-age infant, in contrast to paternal employment in the art (OR = 2.6, 95% Cl 1.2-5.6) and textile industries (OR = 2.5, 95% Cl 1.3-4.7).
(9) An epidemiologic study of 151 matched pairs of employees was conducted in two adjacent textile plants, one of which used inhibited 1,1,1-trichloroethane as a general cleaning solvent.
(10) Southern eurozone countries such as Italy and Spain have suffered from rising competition with China in textiles and light manufacturing industries.
(11) An attempt is made to demonstrate a relationship between changes in arterial blood pressure and sex steroids, gonadotrophins and mineralocorticoids in 30- to 55-year-old females with essential hypertension, employed in textile industry in Cheboksary.
(12) On the fringes was the then young radical furniture and textiles designer Terence Conran .
(13) Is Sisi’s UK visit going to fill my car with gas?’ A lot of people are increasingly disenchanted with the government, simply because it is failing to live up to its own illusions of grandeur.” Among the disenchanted are thousands of workers in the critical textiles sector who are striking over pay and conditions.
(14) Considering only subjects with repeatable measurements, FEV1 was lower among textile workers with byssinosis and machinists with chronic bronchitis than among their asymptomatic coworkers.
(15) A Front National party worker who once worked in a long-closed textile factory said: "There's no question of voting for Hollande or Sarkozy, they represent the system.
(16) · The Zandra Rhodes Fashion and Textile Museum in Bermondsey, London SE1, which contains works by Ossie Clark as well as 3,000 of Rhodes's own designs, is open Tuesday to Sunday, 11am to 5:45pm No: Alice Rawsthorn On a trip to Paris, the New York fashion designer Donna Karan was dragged off to the Picasso Museum by her late husband, Stephen Weiss.
(17) In the sub-group of French nationals only the risk associated with the textile industry was significantly higher than unity (OR = 2.30).
(18) There was an excess of bladder cancer patients with some previous occupational exposure, such as rubber, chemicals, and textiles.
(19) A survey of chronic respiratory symptoms was undertaken in 1127 asbestos workers engaged in asbestos mining, asbestos cement production, production of friction materials or in the manufacture of asbestos textile.
(20) Asthma due to inhalation of dusts of western red cedar, isocyanates, detergent enzymes and textiles is considered in detail.