Cotton-wool

  • 81cotton bud — noun Brit. a small wad of cotton wool on a short, thin stick, used for cosmetic purposes or for cleaning the ears …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 82cotton bud — noun (C) BrE a small thin stick with cotton wool at each end, used for cleaning places that are hard to reach, such as inside your ears; Q tip AmE …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 83cotton — vata statusas T sritis chemija apibrėžtis Iškedentas ir sukarštas medvilnės pluoštas. atitikmenys: angl. cotton; wool rus. вата …

    Chemijos terminų aiškinamasis žodynas

  • 84Wool — is the fiber derived from the specialized skin cells, called follicles, [Australian Wool Corporation, Australian Wool Classing, Raw Wool Services, 1990] of animals in the Caprinae family, principally sheep, but the hair of certain species of… …

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  • 85Cotton-spinning machinery — Cotton Manufacturing Processes (after Murray 1911) Bale Breaker Blowing Room …

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  • 86Cotton duck — (from Dutch doek, linen canvas ), also simply duck, sometimes duck cloth or duck canvas, commonly called canvas outside the textile industry, is a heavy, plain woven cotton fabric. There is also linen duck, which is less often used. Duck is used… …

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  • 87Cotton (серия игр) — Cotton Жанр Горизонтальный скролл шутер Разработчик Success Платформы Аркадный автомат PC Engine Sega Mega Drive Super Nintendo Sega Saturn Sony PlayStation Sega Dreamcast Первая игра …

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  • 88cotton — [kät′ n] n. [ME cotoun < OFr coton < (? via It cotone) Ar quṭun < ? Egypt] 1. the soft, white seed hairs filling the seedpods of various shrubby plants (genus Gossypium) of the mallow family, originally native to the tropics 2. a plant… …

    English World dictionary

  • 89COTTON — COTTON, plant mentioned under the name karpas (derived from the Sanskrit karpasa) in the Book of Esther (1:6) in the description of the magnificent ornamentation of Ahasuerus palace. In the Mishnah cotton is called ẓemer gefen ( vine wool ) as… …

    Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • 90on the cotton wool — adv, adj British a rhyming slang version of on the pull, recorded in 1999 …

    Contemporary slang