Cotton vs. Polyamide

Cottonnoun

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

Polyamidenoun

(chemistry) Any of a range of polymers containing amide (or peptide) repeat units; examples include proteins and nylon.

Cottonnoun

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

Polyamidenoun

a polymer containing repeated amide groups

Cottonnoun

(textiles) The textile made from the fiber harvested from the cotton plant.

Polyamidenoun

a synthetic polymer of a type made by the linkage of an amino group of one molecule and a carboxylic acid group of another, including many synthetic fibres such as nylon.

Cottonnoun

(countable) An item of clothing made from cotton.

Polyamide

A polyamide is a polymer with repeating units linked by amide bonds.Polyamides occur both naturally and artificially. Examples of naturally occurring polyamides are proteins, such as wool and silk.

Cottonadjective

Made of cotton.

Cottonverb

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

Cottonnoun

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.

Cottonnoun

The cotton plant. See Cotten plant, below.

Cottonnoun

Cloth made of cotton.

Cottonverb

To rise with a regular nap, as cloth does.

‘It cottons well; it can not choose but bearA pretty nap.’;

Cottonverb

To go on prosperously; to succeed.

‘New, Hephestion, does not this matter cotton as I would?’;

Cottonverb

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?’;

Cottonverb

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

Cottonnoun

silky fibers from cotton plants in their raw state

Cottonnoun

fabric woven from cotton fibers

Cottonnoun

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

Cottonnoun

thread made of cotton fibers

Cottonverb

take a liking to;

‘cotton to something’;

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.