Cotton

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A soft, fibrous, usually white substance consisting of fine hairs, especially the substance around the seeds of a plant of genus Gossypium.
2. isim Any similar soft, fibrous, white substance of fine hairs, of any origin.
3. isim A plant of genus Gossypium, used as a source of such fiber.

   “K'a-shih has the most extensive cotton-growing area which amounted to 950 000 mou (6.3 million ares) in 1965.”

4. isim Any plant that encases its seed in a thin fiber that is harvested and used as a fabric or cloth.
5. isim Textiles made from the fiber harvested from a cotton plant, especially Gossypium.

   “Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety. She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.”

6. isim An item of clothing made from such textiles.

   “The little girls appeared, looking fresh and cool in pretty pink cottons, and we two elder ones seized the opportunity of making a more elaborate toilette than usual.”

7. isim A small piece of cotton used as a filter when drawing up a drug into a syringe.

   “Do not re-use needles; use fresh cottons each time.”

8. isim Thread of such fiber.
9. isim A wick of a candle.
10. sıfat Made of cotton.
11. fiil To provide with cotton.

    “Goddamned fools had cottoned the land, and just worked it to death, destroying the topsoil, so it blew away, and then, when the rains came, gullied it, so that it wasn't worth a damn for anything.”

12. fiil To supply with a cotton wick.

    “Each machine has on average 200 moulds, each mould contains 18 bobbins, and each bobbin, when first cottoned, 60 yards of wick, so that supposing all the frames of our seven machines to be fresh cottoned at the same time, we should have above 800 miles of wick in work.”

13. fiil To fill with a wad of cotton.

    “First comes bottling, which is done both by machine and by hand. This is followed by cottoning and capping.”

14. fiil To wrap with a protective layer of cotton fabric.

    “I went round and quietly cottoned all the nine holes, and next moring I found all the cottons intact.”

15. fiil To cover walls with fabric.

    “The rooms downstairs were cottoned, the doors re-hung, and a counter put in the record office.”

16. fiil To cover with cotton bolls over a layer of tar (analogous to tar and feather )

    “Tar and cotton him," said a student from the college, more facetiously, perhaps, more mercifully inclined. " Think, fellows, what a pretty bird he will be, with cotton for feathers ; — so downy."”

17. fiil To raise a nap, providing with a soft, cottony texture.

    “The finishing operations consisted of shearing the nap from the cloth, and frizzing, or cottoning, the surface, by pressing with hot irons.”

18. fiil To develop a porous, cottony texture.

    “At this moment he saw the plate cottoning, as he expressed it, to his young friend, Charles Freeland, who sat in the pew at his right. He watched to see what the young merchant would give ; and to his amazement, he saw the young man put in a fifty dollar note!”

19. fiil To give the appearance of being dotted with cotton balls.

    “A fair piece ahead, in answering signal cottoned the sky in rhythmic puffs.”

20. fiil To enshroud with a layer of whiteness.

    “Fog cottoned the steep, wooded slopes on each side of the lake, and the air was chill and penetrating.”

21. fiil To protect from harsh stimuli, coddle, or muffle.

    “Jeanne's house, like Usher's, is a void of great silence and immobility and the "somnambulistic gardens" surrounding her house like Usher's tarn "cottoned the sound from the world."”

22. fiil To rub or burnish with cotton.

    “To oppress one's own workmen, and provide for the workmen of a neighbor — to skin those in charge of one's own interests while cottoning and oiling the residuary product of another's skinnery — that is not very good benevolence, nor very good sense, but it serves in place of both.”

23. fiil To get on with someone or something; to have a good relationship with someone.

    “What meanes this? doth he dote so much of this strange harlot indeed? now I perceiue how this geare cottens.”

24. isim A liking.
25. özel isim The name of several settlements around the world
26. özel isim A village and civil parish in Staffordshire Moorlands district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SK0645).
27. özel isim A habitational surname from Old English.
28. özel isim A surname from Hebrew.