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# textile

«textile» in Mova's school dictionary: **any cloth or fabric that is woven, knitted or made from…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a textile, textiles); adjective-like before a noun (textile factory)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A textile is any cloth or fabric that is woven, knitted or made from threads, such as cotton, wool or silk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/textile/#m1)

2) Textiles is also a school subject or craft where you design and make things from fabric. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/textile/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In design and technology lessons pupils study textiles: natural and man-made fibres, weaving, sewing. In history it names the textile mills of the Industrial Revolution. Phrases: textile industry, textile mill, textile design, natural textiles.

### examples

- Cotton and wool are natural textiles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/textile/#x1)
- In textiles class we sewed a cushion. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/textile/#x2)
- The town grew around a big textile mill in the 1800s. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/textile/#x3)
- Polyester is a man-made textile. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/textile/#x4)
- Many children worked in textile factories long ago. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/textile/#x5)
- This museum shows textiles from all over the world. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/textile/#x6)
- Recycling old textiles keeps clothes out of landfill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/textile/#x7)

### note

Countable; often plural textiles for the subject or the industry. Stress: TEX-tile. Related: texture (how something feels), text (originally from the same Latin word for weaving).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «textile» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/textile/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.