Clothes vs. Cloth — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Clothes and Cloth
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Clothes
Items worn to cover the body
He stripped off his clothes
Baby clothes
A clothes shop
Cloth
Woven or felted fabric made from wool, cotton, or a similar fibre
A cloth bag
A broad piece of pleated cloth
Clothes
Bedclothes
Rosie got into bed and pulled the clothes up to her nose
Cloth
The clergy; the clerical profession
Has he given up all ideas of the cloth?
Clothes
(plural only) Items of clothing; apparel.
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Cloth
Fabric or material formed by weaving, knitting, pressing, or felting natural or synthetic fibers.
Clothes
(obsolete) cloth.
Cloth
A piece of fabric or material used for a specific purpose, as a tablecloth.
Clothes
The covering of a bed; bedclothes.
Cloth
Canvas.
Clothes
Laundry (hung on a clothesline).
Cloth
A sail.
Clothes
Covering for the human body; dress; vestments; vesture; - a general term for whatever covering is worn, or is made to be worn, for decency or comfort.
She . . . speaks well, and has excellent good clothes.
If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole.
Cloth
The characteristic attire of a profession, especially that of the clergy.
Clothes
The covering of a bed; bedclothes.
She turned each way her frighted head,Then sunk it deep beneath the clothes.
Cloth
The clergy
A man of the cloth.
Clothes
Clothing in general;
She was refined in her choice of apparel
He always bought his clothes at the same store
Fastidious about his dress
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
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