cloth

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /klɒθ/|/klɔːθ/|/klɔθ/    美 /klɔθ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A fabric, usually made of woven, knitted, or felted fibres or filaments, such as used in dressing, decorating, cleaning or other practical use. Sometimes, woven fabric specifically. countable,uncountable
    — Near-synonyms: (not always differentiated) fabric, material (fabric sense), textile; see also Thesaurus:fabric
  2. Specifically, a tablecloth, especially as spread before a meal or removed afterwards. countable,uncountable
    — One day he came, as I thought accidentally, to dinner. My huſband was very much engaged in buſineſs, and quitted the room ſoon after the cloth was removed.
  3. A piece of cloth used for a particular purpose. countable
    — The first room the people enter was formerly the Presence Chamber, which is hung completely with black, and at the r-end a cloth of estate, with a chair of estate standing upon the Haut-place under the state.
  4. Substance or essence; the whole of something complex. countable,figuratively,uncountable
    — . If we look beyond the chaos of each moment, we cannot help seeing that we are but one glorious thread in the cloth of life.
  5. Appearance; seeming. countable,figuratively,uncountable
    — Like all cultural realities, contemporary modernism is packed with its own myths, its own largely unrecognized metaphors, its own poetics literally perceived -- or should we say, "misperceived"? -- its own reifications and idiosyncratic distinctions. And it comes to us decorated in the cloth of emancipation, a new freedom that would seem to liberate us from those restraints and bonds that were the excretions of an older mindset, an alien political and social order, a rigid and stultifying hierarchy now perceived as riddled with superstition, arbitrary premise, and false conjunction — in contrast, of course, to the liberated mindset that bespeaks our own age!
  6. A form of attire that represents a particular profession or status. countable,uncountable
    — But he could not come in the white cloth of celebration to a burial service, and he could hardly come in the cloth of mourning to celebrate his two decades on the stool.
  7. The priesthood. countable,idiomatic,uncountable,with-definite-article
    — He is a respected man of the cloth.

词形变化

cloths plural clothes obsolete,plural cloath alternative,obsolete clath alternative,Scotland clathe alternative,Scotland claith alternative,Scotland

词汇关系

衍生词
Aida cloth airplane cloth altar cloth altar-cloth American cloth backcloth back-cloth back-cloth star barkcloth barmcloth bolting cloth book-cloth brattice cloth breechcloth breech-cloth broadcloth cerecloth charcloth cheesecloth chincloth clothback clothbound cloth cap cloth-eared cloth-ears clothed cloth hall clothhead clothier clothify clothism clothless clothlike clothmaker clothmaking cloth nappy cloth of gold cloth of tissue cloth pad clothwork clothworker clothy clothyard clot shot commando cloth communion cloth composition cloth crumbcloth cut from the same cloth cut of the same cloth cut out of the same cloth cut one's cloth to suit one's purse cut one's coat according to one's cloth cut the coat according to the cloth dishcloth dish cloth dish-cloth doublecloth drabcloth draw the cloth dropcloth drop cloth dust cloth dustcloth emery cloth empress cloth facecloth face cloth floorcloth focusing cloth focussing cloth footcloth forecloth grasscloth Greencloth green cloth groundcloth haircloth handcloth hardware cloth headcloth hearsecloth Henrietta cloth hindcloth horsecloth housecloth ironing cloth Italian cloth Janus cloth J-cloth kente cloth knight of the green cloth lady's cloth leathercloth lee cloth loincloth lot-cloth split man of the cloth match-cloth microcloth monkscloth mort cloth mudcloth mummy cloth narrow cloth neckcloth neck-cloth nettlecloth nettle cloth nightcloth oilcloth overcloth packcloth pad cloth pagri cloth paper-cloth pilot cloth pincloth poodle cloth pressing cloth race cloth rick cloth rune cloth sackcloth saddlecloth saddle-cloth sailcloth salamander cloth sealskin cloth shade cloth shake a cloth in the wind shaving cloth silvercloth skycloth space cloth spider cloth sponge cloth sweat-cloth tablecloth table cloth table-cloth take the cloth tea cloth teacloth terry cloth Thibet cloth toilet cloth topcloth touch cloth traycloth undercloth union cloth vellum cloth Venetian cloth waistcloth washcloth waxcloth weather cloth whole cloth out of whole cloth winding cloth wire cloth woman of the cloth zephyr cloth
相关词
clothe clothes clothing

词源

From Middle English cloth, clath, from Old English clāþ (“cloth, clothes, covering, sail”), from Proto-Germanic *klaiþą (“garment”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *gleyt- (“to cling to, cleave, stick”) (compare Albanian ngjit (“to stick, attach, glue”)), a form of *gleh₁y- (“to smear; to stick”). Cognate with Scots clath (“cloth”), North Frisian klaid (“dress, garment”), Saterland Frisian Klood (“dress, apparel”), West Frisian kleed (“cloth, article of clothing”), Dutch kleed (“robe, dress”), Low German kleed (“dress, garment”), German Kleid (“gown, dress”), Danish klæde (“cloth, dress”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk klede, Swedish kläde (“cloth”), Icelandic klæði (“cloth, dressing”), Old English clīþan (“to adhere, stick”).
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