Yarn vs. Wool — What's the Difference?

Yarn is a long continuous length of interlocked fibres, suitable for use in the production of textiles, sewing, crocheting, knitting, weaving, embroidery, or ropemaking. Thread is a type of yarn intended for sewing by hand or machine.

Wool is the textile fibre obtained from sheep and other animals, including cashmere and mohair from goats, qiviut from muskoxen, hide and fur clothing from bison, angora from rabbits, and other types of wool from camelids.Wool consists of protein together with a small percentage of lipids. In this regard it is chemically quite distinct from the more dominant textile, cotton, which is mainly cellulose.

A continuous strand of twisted threads of natural or synthetic fibers, such as wool or nylon, used in weaving or knitting.

The fine, soft curly or wavy hair forming the coat of a sheep, goat, or similar animal, especially when shorn and prepared for use in making cloth or yarn

A similar strand of other materials such as glass or plastic.

The dense, soft, often curly hair forming the coat of sheep and certain other mammals, such as the goat and alpaca, consisting of cylindrical strands of keratin covered by minute overlapping scales and much valued as a textile fiber.

(Informal) A long, often elaborate narrative of real or fictitious adventures; an entertaining tale.

Fabric or yarn made of this hair.

To tell an entertaining tale or series of tales.

Hairy or downy material on a plant or animal, as on certain caterpillars.

(uncountable) A twisted strand of fiber used for knitting or weaving.

Filamentous or fibrous material similar to the wool of a sheep or other mammal.

(nautical) Bundles of fibers twisted together, and which in turn are twisted in bundles to form strands, which in their turn are twisted or plaited to form rope.

The hair of the sheep, llama and some other ruminants.

(countable) A story, a tale, especially one that is incredible.

A cloth or yarn made from the wool of sheep.

To tell a story or stories, especially one that is lengthy or unlikely to be true.

Anything with a texture like that of wool.

Spun wool; woolen thread; also, thread of other material, as of cotton, flax, hemp, or silk; material spun and prepared for use in weaving, knitting, manufacturing sewing thread, or the like.

A fine fiber obtained from the leaves of certain trees, such as firs and pines.

One of the threads of which the strands of a rope are composed.

(obsolete) Short, thick hair, especially when crisped or curled.

A story told by a sailor for the amusement of his companions; a story or tale; as, to spin a yarn.

Yarn, including that made from synthetic fibers.

The act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events;

A resident of a satellite town outside Liverpool, such as St Helens or Warrington. See also Yonner.

A fine cord of twisted fibers (of cotton or silk or wool or nylon etc.) used in sewing and weaving

The soft and curled, or crisped, species of hair which grows on sheep and some other animals, and which in fineness sometimes approaches to fur; - chiefly applied to the fleecy coat of the sheep, which constitutes a most essential material of clothing in all cold and temperate climates.

Tell or spin a yarn

Short, thick hair, especially when crisped or curled.

A sort of pubescence, or a clothing of dense, curling hairs on the surface of certain plants.

A fabric made from the hair of sheep

Fiber sheared from animals (such as sheep) and twisted into yarn for weaving

Outer coat of especially sheep and yaks