Cloth vs. Poncho — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Cloth and Poncho
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Definitions
Cloth➦
Woven or felted fabric made from wool, cotton, or a similar fibre
A cloth bag
A broad piece of pleated cloth
Poncho➦
A poncho (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈpontʃo]; Quechua: punchu; Mapudungun: pontro; "blanket", "woolen fabric") is an outer garment designed to keep the body warm. A rain poncho is made from a watertight material designed to keep the body dry from the rain.
Cloth➦
The clergy; the clerical profession
Has he given up all ideas of the cloth?
Poncho➦
A blanketlike cloak having a hole in the center for the head.
Cloth➦
Fabric or material formed by weaving, knitting, pressing, or felting natural or synthetic fibers.
Poncho➦
A similar garment having a hood used as a raincoat.
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Cloth➦
A piece of fabric or material used for a specific purpose, as a tablecloth.
Poncho➦
A simple garment, made from a rectangle of cloth, with a slit in the middle for the head.
Cloth➦
Canvas.
Poncho➦
A similar waterproof garment, today typically of rubber with a hood.
Cloth➦
A sail.
Poncho➦
A kind of cloak worn by the Spanish Americans, having the form of a blanket, with a slit in the middle for the head to pass through. A kind of poncho made of rubber or painted cloth is used by the mounted troops in the United States service.
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Cloth➦
The characteristic attire of a profession, especially that of the clergy.
Poncho➦
A trade name for camlets, or stout worsteds.
Cloth➦
The clergy
A man of the cloth.
Poncho➦
A blanket-like cloak with a hole in the center for the head
Cloth➦
A fabric, usually made of woven, knitted, or felted fibres or filaments, such as used in dressing, decorating, cleaning or other practical use.
Cloth➦
Specifically, a tablecloth, especially as spread before a meal or removed afterwards.
Cloth➦
(countable) A piece of cloth used for a particular purpose.
Cloth➦
(metaphoric) Substance or essence; the whole of something complex.
Cloth➦
(metaphoric) Appearance; seeming.
Cloth➦
A form of attire that represents a particular profession or status.
Cloth➦
(in idioms) Priesthood, clergy.
He is a respected man of the cloth.
Cloth➦
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.
Cloth➦
The dress; raiment. [Obs.] See Clothes.
I'll ne'er distust my God for cloth and bread.
Cloth➦
The distinctive dress of any profession, especially of the clergy; hence, the clerical profession.
Appeals were made to the priesthood. Would they tamely permit so gross an insult to be offered to their cloth?
The cloth, the clergy, are constituted for administering and for giving the best possible effect to . . . every axiom.
Cloth➦
Artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers;
The fabric in the curtains was light and semitraqnsparent
Woven cloth originated in Mesopotamia around 5000 BC
She measured off enough material for a dress
