Silk vs Wool - What's the difference?
silk | wool |
(uncountable) A fine fiber excreted by the silkworm or other arthropod (such as a spider).
(uncountable) A fine, soft cloth woven from silk fibers.
That which resembles silk, such as the filiform styles of the female flower of maize.
The gown worn by a Senior (i.e. Queen's/King's) Counsel.
(colloquial) A Senior (i.e. Queen's/King's) Counsel.
Made of .
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*:It was flood-tide along Fifth Avenue; motor, brougham, and victoria swept by on the glittering current; pretty women glanced out from limousine and tonneau; young men of his own type, silk -hatted, frock-coated, the crooks of their walking sticks tucked up under their left arms, passed on the Park side.
Looking like silk, silken.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=2 To remove the silk from (corn).
* 2013 , Lynetra T. Griffin, From Whence We Came (page 17)
The hair of the sheep, llama and some other ruminants.
* 2006 , Nigel Guy Wilson, Ancient Greece , page 692
A cloth or yarn made from the wool of sheep.
* {{quote-news, 2009, January 12, Mireya Navarro, It May Market Organic Alternatives, but Is Your Cleaner Really Greener?, New York Times, url=
, passage=Spielvogel said wet cleaning also has limitations; while it is fine for cottons and fabrics worn in warm climates, he said, it can damage heavy wools or structured clothes like suit jackets. }}
Anything with a texture like that of wool.
* 1975 , Anthony Julian Huxley, Plant and Planet , page 223
A fine fiber obtained from the leaves of certain trees, such as firs and pines.
(obsolete) Short, thick hair, especially when crisped or curled.
* Shakespeare
(British, NZ) yarn (including that which is made from synthetic fibers.)
As nouns the difference between silk and wool
is that silk is a fine fiber excreted by the silkworm or other arthropod (such as a spider) while wool is the hair of the sheep, llama and some other ruminants.As an adjective silk
is made of silk.As a verb silk
is {{cx|transitive|lang=en}} To remove the silk from (corn).As a proper noun Wool is
a village in Dorset, England.silk
English
(wikipedia silk)Noun
(en noun)- The silk thread was barely visible.
- I had a small square of silk , but it wasn't enough to make what I wanted.
Derived terms
* make a silk purse of a sow's ear * silken * silky * silkweaver * silkweaving * silkworm * smooth as silk * take silkSee also
* sericinAdjective
(-)citation, passage=Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety. She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.}}
Verb
(en verb)- While we shucked and silked the corn, we talked, sang old nursery rhymes
Anagrams
*wool
English
Noun
(en-noun)- The sheep were caught and plucked, because shears had not yet been invented to cut the wool from the sheep's back.
- The groundsels have leaves covered in wool for insulation
- wool of bat and tongue of dog