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 Flannel was originally made from carded wool or worsted yarn, but is now often made from either wool, cotton, or synthetic fiber.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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