Definitions for cloth
klɔθ, klɒθcloth

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. fabric, cloth, material, textilenoun

   artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers

   "the fabric in the curtains was light and semitransparent"; "woven cloth originated in Mesopotamia around 5000 BC"; "she measured off enough material for a dress"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. clothnoun

   A woven fabric such as used in dressing, decorating, cleaning or other practical use.

2. clothnoun

   A piece of cloth used for a particular purpose.

3. clothnoun

   A form of attire that represents a particular profession.

4. clothnoun

   Priesthood, clergy.

5. Etymology: From cloth, clath, from claþ, from klaiþan, from gleit-. Cognate with clath, klaid, kleed, Dutch kleed, kleed, German Kleid, klæde, kläde, klæði, cliþan. Cognate with ngjit and perhaps with qeth.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. CLOTHnoun

   plural cloths or clothes.

   Etymology: clað , Saxon.

   1. Any thing woven for dress or covering, whether of animal or vegetable substance.

   The Spaniards buy their linen cloths in that kingdom. Jonathan Swift.

   2. The piece of linnen spread upon a table.

   Nor let, like Nævius, every error pass,
   The musty wine, foul cloth, or greasy glass. Alexander Pope, Hor. Imit.

   3. The canvass on which pictures are delineated.

   I answer you right painted cloth, from whence you have studied your questions. William Shakespeare, As you like it.

   Who fears a sentence, or an old man’s saw,
   Shall by a painted cloth be kept in awe. William Shakespeare, Tarq. and Luc.

   This idea, which we may call the goddess of painting and of sculpture, descends upon the marble and the cloth, and becomes the original of these arts. John Dryden, Dufresnoy. Pref. to.

   4. In the plural. Dress; habit; garment; vesture; vest ments. Including whatever covering is worn on the body. In this sense always clothes. Pronounced clo’s.

   He with him brought Pryene, rich array’d
   In Claribellae’s clothes. Edmund Spenser, b. ii. cant. 4. stanz. 28.

   Take up these clothes here, quickly: carry them to the laundress in Datchet-mead. William Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor.

   Strength grows more from the warmth of exercises than of cloaths. William Temple.

   5. The covering of a bed.

   Gazing on her midnight foes,
   She turn’d each way her frighted head,
   Then sunk it deep beneath the clothes. Matthew Prior.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Clothnoun

   a fabric made of fibrous material (or sometimes of wire, as in wire cloth); commonly, a woven fabric of cotton, woolen, or linen, adapted to be made into garments; specifically, woolen fabrics, as distinguished from all others

2. Clothnoun

   the dress; raiment. [Obs.] See Clothes

3. Clothnoun

   the distinctive dress of any profession, especially of the clergy; hence, the clerical profession

4. Etymology: [OE. clath cloth, AS. cl cloth, garment; akin to D. kleed, Icel. kli, Dan. klde, cloth, Sw. klde, G. kleid garment, dress.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Cloth

   kloth, n. woven material from which garments or coverings are made: clothing: the usual dress of a trade or profession, esp. the clerical:—pl. Cloths.—v.t. Clothe (klōth), to cover with a garment: to provide with clothes: (fig.) to invest as with a garment: to cover:—pr.p. clōth′ing; pa.t. and pa.p. clōthed or clad.—n.pl. Clothes (klōthz, coll. klōz), garments or articles of dress: blankets for a bed.—ns. Clothes′-bas′ket, a large basket for holding and carrying clothes; Clothes′-brush, a brush for clothes; Clothes′-horse, Clothes′-screen, a frame for hanging clothes on to dry; Clothes′-line, a rope or wire for hanging clothes on to dry; Clothes′-moth, one of various tineas whose larvæ feed on furs, woollens, &c., spinning cases out of these; Clothes′-pin, a forked piece of wood to secure clothes on a line; Clothes′-press, a place for holding clothes; Cloth′-hall, a cloth-exchange building or market; Cloth′ier, one who makes or sells cloth; Cloth′ing, clothes, garments: covering; Cloth′-yard, formerly the yard by which cloth was measured.—Cloth of gold, a tissue consisting of threads of gold and silk or wool; Cloth of state, a canopy; Cloth-yard shaft, an arrow a cloth-yard long.—Clothe in words, to express ideas in words; Clothe on, or upon, to invest: to cover.—American cloth, a kind of enamelled cloth, used for covering chairs, &c.—The cloth, the clerical profession: the clergy. [A.S. cláth, cloth; Ger. kleid, a garment.]

Editors Contribution(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. cloth

   A type of material and product created and designed in various colors, materials, shapes, sizes and styles.

   Cloths are created for a variety of purposes e.g. cleaning, washing and applying a number of things.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on October 14, 2016  

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1. • Artifact

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'cloth' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4688

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'cloth' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3766

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'cloth' in Nouns Frequency: #1738

How to pronounce cloth?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say cloth in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of cloth in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of cloth in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of cloth in a Sentence

1. Jesse Jackson:

   America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.

2. Kaleo Paik:

   Traditionally the long and larger bones would be washed, wrapped in cloth and put in a funeral basket and buried.

3. Karen Bass:

   The significance of the Kente cloth is our African heritage, and for those of you without that heritage, we're acting in solidarity. That is the significance of the Kente cloth -- our origins and respecting our pasts.

4. Émile Durkheim:

   Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.

5. Sara Greenstein:

   For most cloth face masks, there is no inner filtration layer that traps harmful particles.

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