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Cotton vs. Flannel — What's the Difference?

Cotton vs. Flannel — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Cotton and Flannel

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Cotton

Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus Gossypium in the mallow family Malvaceae. The fiber is almost pure cellulose.

Flannel

Flannel is a soft woven fabric, of various fineness. Flannel was originally made from carded wool or worsted yarn, but is now often made from either wool, cotton, or synthetic fiber.

Cotton

Any of various shrubby plants of the genus Gossypium, having showy flowers and grown for the soft white downy fibers surrounding oil-rich seeds.

Flannel

A kind of soft woven fabric, typically made of wool or cotton and slightly milled and raised
A check flannel shirt

Cotton

The fiber of any of these plants, used in making textiles and other products.
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Flannel

A small piece of towelling used for washing oneself.

Cotton

Thread or cloth manufactured from the fiber of these plants.

Flannel

Bland fluent talk indulged in to avoid addressing a difficult subject or situation directly
A simple admittance of ignorance was much to be preferred to any amount of flannel

Cotton

Any of various soft downy substances produced by other plants, as on the seeds of a cottonwood.

Flannel

Use bland fluent talk to avoid addressing a difficult subject or situation directly.

Cotton

To take a liking; attempt to be friendly
A dog that didn't cotton to strangers.
An administration that will cotton up to the most repressive of regimes.

Flannel

A soft woven cloth of wool or a blend of wool and cotton or synthetics.

Cotton

To come to understand. Often used with to or onto
"The German bosses ... never cottoned to such changes" (N.R. Kleinfield).

Flannel

Outer clothing, especially pants, made of this cloth.

Cotton

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

Flannel

Underclothing made of this cloth.

Cotton

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

Flannel

Flannelette.

Cotton

Any fiber similar in appearance and use to Gossypium fiber.

Flannel

(uncountable) A soft cloth material originally woven from wool, today often combined with cotton or synthetic fibers.
With the weather turning colder, it was time to dig out our flannel sheets and nightclothes.

Cotton

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

Flannel

A washcloth.

Cotton

(countable) An item of clothing made from cotton.

Flannel

A flannel shirt.

Cotton

Made of cotton.

Flannel

Soothing, plausible untruth or half-truth; claptrap.
Don't talk flannel!

Cotton

(transitive) To provide with cotton.

Flannel

Made of flannel.

Cotton

To supply with a cotton wick.

Flannel

(transitive) To rub with a flannel.

Cotton

To fill with a wad of cotton.

Flannel

(transitive) To wrap in flannel.

Cotton

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

Flannel

(transitive) To flatter; to suck up to.

Cotton

To cover walls with fabric.

Flannel

To waffle or prevaricate.

Cotton

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

Flannel

A soft, nappy, woolen cloth, of loose texture.

Cotton

To make or become cotton-like

Flannel

A cotton fabric with a thick nap on one side, resembling flannel{1}; it is used, e. g. for underwear or sheets; also called flanellette.

Cotton

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

Flannel

Garments made of flannel, especially underwear.

Cotton

To develop a porous, cottony texture.

Flannel

A washcloth.

Cotton

To give the appearance of being dotted with cotton balls.

Flannel

Humbug; nonsensical or evasive talk.

Cotton

To enshroud with a layer of whiteness.

Flannel

Insincere flattery or praise.

Cotton

To protect from harsh stimuli, coddle, or muffle.

Flannel

A soft light woolen fabric; used for clothing

Cotton

To rub or burnish with cotton.

Flannel

Bath linen consisting of a piece of cloth used to wash the face and body

Cotton

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

Flannel

(usually in the plural) trousers

Cotton

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.

Cotton

The cotton plant. See Cotten plant, below.

Cotton

Cloth made of cotton.

Cotton

To rise with a regular nap, as cloth does.
It cottons well; it can not choose but bearA pretty nap.

Cotton

To go on prosperously; to succeed.
New, Hephestion, does not this matter cotton as I would?

Cotton

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

Cotton

To take a liking to; to stick to one as cotton; - used with to.

Cotton

Silky fibers from cotton plants in their raw state

Cotton

Fabric woven from cotton fibers

Cotton

Erect bushy mallow plant or small tree bearing bolls containing seeds with many long hairy fibers

Cotton

Thread made of cotton fibers

Cotton

Take a liking to;
Cotton to something

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