COTTON

cotton

(noun) fabric woven from cotton fibers

cotton

(noun) thread made of cotton fibers

cotton, cotton plant

(noun) erect bushy mallow plant or small tree bearing bolls containing seeds with many long hairy fibers

cotton, cotton fiber, cotton wool

(noun) soft silky fibers from cotton plants in their raw state

cotton

(verb) take a liking to; “cotton to something”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Proper noun

Cotton

The name of several settlements around the world

A habitational surname.

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Cotton

A surname.

Etymology 1

Noun

cotton (usually uncountable, plural cottons)

Gossypium, a genus of plant used as a source of cotton fiber.

Any plant that encases its seed in a thin fiber that is harvested and used as a fabric or cloth.

Any fiber similar in appearance and use to Gossypium fiber.

(textiles) The textile made from the fiber harvested from a cotton plant, especially Gossypium.

(countable) An item of clothing made from cotton.

Adjective

cotton (not comparable)

Made of cotton.

Verb

cotton (third-person singular simple present cottons, present participle cottoning, simple past and past participle cottoned)

(transitive) To provide with cotton.

To supply with a cotton wick.

To fill with a wad of cotton.

(horticulture) To wrap with a protective layer of cotton fabric.

To cover walls with fabric.

(tar and cotton) To cover with cotton bolls over a layer of tar (analogous to tar and feather )

To make or become cotton-like

To raise a nap, providing with a soft, cottony texture.

To develop a porous, cottony texture.

To give the appearance of being dotted with cotton balls.

To enshroud with a layer of whiteness.

To protect from harsh stimuli, coddle, or muffle.

To rub or burnish with cotton.

Etymology 2

Verb

cotton (third-person singular simple present cottons, present participle cottoning, simple past and past participle cottoned)

To get on with someone or something; to have a good relationship with someone.

Usage notes

Generally used with prepositions on, to; see cotton on, cotton to.

Source: Wiktionary

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Cot"ton (kt"t'n), n. Etym: [F. coton, Sp. algodon the cotton plant and its wool, coton printed cotton, cloth, fr. Ar. qutun, alqutun, cotton wool. Cf. Acton, Hacqueton.]

1. A soft, downy substance, resembling fine wool, consisting of the unicellular twisted hairs which grow on the seeds of the cotton plant. Long-staple cotton has a fiber sometimes almost two inches long; short-staple, from two thirds of an inch to an inch and a half.

2. The cotton plant. See Cotten plant, below.

3. Cloth made of cotton.

Note: Cotton is used as an adjective before many nouns in a sense which commonly needs no explanation; as, cottton bagging; cotton clotch; cotton goods; cotton industry; cotton mill; cotton spinning; cotton tick. Cotton cambric. See Cambric, n., 2.

– Cotton flannel, the manufactures' name for a heavy cotton fabric, twilled, and with a long plush nap. In England it is called swan's- down cotton, or Canton flannel.

– Cotton gin, a machine to separate the seeds from cotton, invented by Eli Whitney.

– Cotton grass (Bot.), a genus of plants (Eriphorum) of the Sedge family, having delicate capillary bristles surrounding the fruit (seedlike achenia), which elongate at maturity and resemble tufts of cotton.

– Cotton mouse (Zool.), a field mouse (Hesperomys gossypinus), injurious to cotton crops.

– Cotton plant (Bot.), a plant of the genus Gossypium, of several species, all growing in warm climates, and bearing the cotton of commerce. The common species, originally Asiatic, is G. herbaceum.

– Cotton press, a building and machinery in which cotton bales are compressed into smaller bulk for shipment; a press for baling cotton.

– Cotton rose (Bot.), a genus of composite herbs (Filago), covered with a white substance resembling cotton.

– Cotton scale (Zoöl.), a species of bark louse (Pulvinaria innumerabilis), which does great damage to the cotton plant.

– Cotton shrub. Same as Cotton plant.

– Cotton stainer (Zoöl.), a species of hemipterous insect (Dysdercus suturellus), which seriously damages growing cotton by staining it; -- called also redbug.

– Cotton thistle (Bot.), the Scotch thistle. See under Thistle.

– Cotton velvet, velvet in which the warp and woof are both of cotton, and the pile is of silk; also, velvet made wholly of cotton.

– Cotton waste, the refuse of cotton mills.

– Cotton wool, cotton in its raw or woolly state.

– Cotton worm (Zool.), a lepidopterous insect (Aletia argillacea), which in the larval state does great damage to the cotton plant by eating the leaves. It also feeds on corn, etc., and hence is often called corn worm, and Southern army worm.

Cot"ton, v. i.

1. To rise with a regular nap, as cloth does. [Obs.] It cottons well; it can not choose but bear A pretty nap. Family of Love.

2. To go on prosperously; to succeed. [Obs.] New, Hephestion, does not this matter cotton as I would Lyly.

3. To unite; to agree; to make friends; -- usually followed by with. [Colloq.] A quarrel will end in one of you being turned off, in which case it will not be easy to cotton with another. Swift. Didst see, Frank, how the old goldsmith cottoned in with his beggarly companion Sir W. Scott.

4. To take a liking to; to stick to one as cotton; -- used with to. [Slang]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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