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Cotton vs. Linen — What's the Difference?

Cotton vs. Linen — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Cotton and Linen

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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.

Linen

Linen () is a textile made from the fibers of the flax plant. Linen is very strong, absorbent, and dries faster than cotton.

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.

Linen

Cloth woven from flax
A linen suit
He dealt in Irish linens

Cotton

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

Thread made from fibers of the flax plant.

Cotton

Thread or cloth manufactured from the fiber of these plants.

Linen

Cloth woven from this thread.

Cotton

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

Linen

Also linens Articles or garments, such as sheets, tablecloths, or underwear, formerly made of linen and now usually made of other fabrics, especially cotton.

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.

Linen

Paper made from flax fibers or having a linenlike luster.

Cotton

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

Linen

Made of flax or linen.

Cotton

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

Linen

Resembling linen.

Cotton

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

Linen

(uncountable) Thread or cloth made from flax fiber.

Cotton

Any fiber similar in appearance and use to Gossypium fiber.

Linen

(countable) Domestic textiles, such as tablecloths, bedding, towels, underclothes, etc., that are made of linen or linen-like fabrics of cotton or other fibers; linens.
She put the freshly cleaned linens into the linen closet.

Cotton

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

Linen

A light beige colour, like that of linen cloth undyed.

Cotton

(countable) An item of clothing made from cotton.

Linen

Made from linen cloth or thread.

Cotton

Made of cotton.

Linen

Having the colour linen, light beige.

Cotton

(transitive) To provide with cotton.

Linen

Made of linen; as, linen cloth; a linen stocking.

Cotton

To supply with a cotton wick.

Linen

Resembling linen cloth; white; pale.

Cotton

To fill with a wad of cotton.

Linen

Thread or cloth made of flax or (rarely) of hemp; - used in a general sense to include cambric, shirting, sheeting, towels, tablecloths, etc.; as, bed linens

Cotton

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

Linen

Underclothing, esp. the shirt, as being, in former times, chiefly made of linen.

Cotton

To cover walls with fabric.

Linen

A fabric woven with fibers from the flax plant

Cotton

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

Linen

A high-quality paper made of linen fibers or with a linen finish

Cotton

To make or become cotton-like

Linen

White goods or clothing made with linen cloth

Cotton

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

Cotton

To develop a porous, cottony texture.

Cotton

To give the appearance of being dotted with cotton balls.

Cotton

To enshroud with a layer of whiteness.

Cotton

To protect from harsh stimuli, coddle, or muffle.

Cotton

To rub or burnish with cotton.

Cotton

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

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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