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cotton

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Related topics: Material & textiles, Plants, Sewing & knitting
cot·ton1 /ˈkɒtn $ ˈkɑːtn/ ●●● W3 noun [uncountableU]
1  TIMcloth or thread made from the white hair of the cotton plant 棉布；棉紗
a white cotton shirt
白色棉布襯衫
Made from 100% cotton.
百分之百純棉制作。
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2. HBPa plant with white hairs on its seeds that are used for making cotton cloth and thread 棉株〔植物〕
3  British EnglishBrEDLH thread used for sewing 〔縫紉用的〕線
a needle and cotton
針和線
a cotton reel (=small round tube which cotton thread is wound around)
線軸
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4. American EnglishAmE cotton wool 藥棉，脫脂棉
n COLLOCATIONS
adjectives
thin/light cotton
a thin cotton dress
fine cotton (=thin and good quality)
For summer, fine cotton is more comfortable.
pure cotton (=not mixed with any other materials)
shirts made from pure cotton
raw cotton (=natural, and not prepared for use)
They imported raw cotton from America.
50%/100 per cent etc cotton
These lightweight trousers are made from 100% cotton.
cotton + NOUN
a cotton shirt/dress/jacket etc
Egyptian cotton sheets are very expensive here.
cotton cloth/fabric
cotton cloth from India
cotton thread (=long thin cotton string that you use for sewing)
I need some dark blue cotton thread.
the cotton industry/trade
The cotton industry began to boom in the 1780s.
a cotton field/farmer/plantation etc
Texas produced half of the US cotton crop.
a cotton mill (=factory where cotton is made into thread or cloth)
verbs
be made of/from cotton
The fabric is made of cotton or wool.
Examples from the Corpus
cotton• The towels are 100% cotton.• In addition, water-intensive crops such as rice should be abandoned in favour of wheat and cotton.• The photographs of black cotton pickers, including young children, are reminders of the harsh reality underlying the glory.• And it was for cotton that the first real factories came into being.• fields of cotton and corn• You're like a sea of cotton wool.• We were five miles out of Sabinal in the cotton fields and grape vineyards.• This enabled Whessoe to stamp its by now ubiquitously accepted name on the conduit that supplied vital water to the cotton city.• A white cotton Mondrian laundry bag will set a guest back $ 60.
cotton2 verb
1 cotton on phrasal verbphr v informal UNDERSTANDto begin to understand something 開始明白，領會 → realize
It took me a while to cotton on.
我過了一會兒才明白過來。
to
Sarah soon cottoned on to what he was trying to do.
薩拉馬上明白了他想幹什麽。
2 cotton to somebody/something phrasal verbphr v American EnglishAmE informal LIKE somebody OR somethingto begin to like a person, idea etc 開始喜歡 SYN take to
I didn’t cotton to her at first, but she’s really nice.
我一開始並不喜歡她，但是她真的很好。
Origin cotton1
(1300-1400) Old French coton, from Arabic qutn
 cotton2
(1800-1900) cotton “to be successful” ((16-19 centuries)), perhaps from cotton (of cloth) “to form a soft surface” ((15-19 centuries)), from → COTTON1

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