What's the difference between openwork and scrim?

Openwork


Definition:

  • (n.) Anything so constructed or manufactured (in needlework, carpentry, metal work, etc.) as to show openings through its substance; work that is perforated or pierced.
  • (n.) A quarry; an open cut.

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Scrim


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of light cotton or linen fabric, often woven in openwork patterns, -- used for curtains, etc,; -- called also India scrim.
  • (n.) Thin canvas glued on the inside of panels to prevent shrinking, checking, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The tapestries would frame the space and create a sort of open-air building, though members of the Eisenhower family have gone so far to protest that the metal scrims remind them of Communist imagery or chain-link fences at a Nazi concentration camp.
  • (2) The results showed that a scrim wipe was the best for this purpose and also indicated that the non-ionic detergent Cetomacrogol 1000 B.P.C.
  • (3) It consists of a basal knitted scrim with strongly entangled ultrafine polyester fibers, lined with a fine velour of entangled ultrafine fibers that provide high ravel and tear resistance, a perfect matrix for preclotting, and an anchor for cell adhesion.
  • (4) But not unlike that avian display gone wrong, behind the shimmering scrim of spectacular billboards remain inconvenient truths.
  • (5) It's a sign of that disturbing migration of the middle to the far right that some critics don't even bother to put a scrim of compassion over their green eyeshades.

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