Cotton vs Knit - What's the difference?
cotton | knit |
A plant that encases its seed in a thin fiber that is harvested and used as a fabric or cloth.
Gossypium , a genus of plant used as a source of cotton fiber.
(textiles) The textile made from the fiber harvested from the cotton plant.
(countable) An item of clothing made from cotton.
Made of cotton.
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English terms with multiple etymologies
and To turn thread or yarn into a piece of fabric by forming loops that are pulled through each other. This can be done by hand with needles or by machine.
(figuratively) To join closely and firmly together.
* Wiseman
* Shakespeare
* Milton
* Tennyson
To become closely and firmly joined; become compacted.
To grow together.
To combine from various elements.
To heal (of bones) following a fracture.
To form into a knot, or into knots; to tie together, as cord; to fasten by tying.
* Bible, Acts x. 11
* Shakespeare
To draw together; to contract into wrinkles.
* Shakespeare
As a proper noun cotton
is the name of several settlements around the world or cotton can be .As a verb knit is
and to turn thread or yarn into a piece of fabric by forming loops that are pulled through each other this can be done by hand with needles or by machine.cotton
English
(cotton)Etymology 1
(etyl) cotoun, from (etyl) cotun, (etyl) coton, from (Genoese) (etyl) cotone, from (Egyptian) (etyl) , possibly originally from (etyl). Cognate to Dutch katoen, German Kattun, Italian cotone, SpanishNoun
(en-noun)Derived terms
* cotton candy * cottongrass * cotton pad * cotton picker * cottonseed * cotton stripper * cotton wool * cotton gin * cotton card * cotton blendAdjective
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Etymology 2
1560s, either from (etyl) cydun, , literally “to be at one with”, or by metaphor with the textile, as cotton blended well with other textiles, notably wool in hat-making.Take Our Word For It: Issue 178, page 2]Folk-etymology: a dictionary of verbal corruptions or words perverted in form or meaning, by false derivation or mistaken analogy, Abram Smythe Palmer, G. Bell and Sons, 1882, [http://books.google.com/books?id=YX5BAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA76&dq=cotton p. 76
Verb
(en verb)Usage notes
Generally used with prepositions on, to; see cotton on, cotton to.Derived terms
* cotton on * cotton toReferences
knit
English
(Knitting)Verb
- to knit a stocking
- The first generation knitted''' to order; the second still '''knits''' for its own use; the next leaves '''knitting to industrial manufacturers.
- The fight for survival knitted the men closely together.
- Nature cannot knit the bones while the parts are under a discharge.
- Thy merit hath my duty strongly knit .
- Come, knit hands, and beat the ground, / In a light fantastic round.
- A link among the days, to knit / The generations each to each.
- All those seedlings knitted into a kaleidoscopic border.
- The witness knitted his testimony from contradictory pieces of hearsay.
- I’ll go skiing again after my bones knit .''
- a great sheet knit at the four corners
- When your head did but ache, / I knit my handkercher about your brows.
- He knits his brow and shows an angry eye.