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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A cloth, especially one manufactured by weaving or knitting; a fabric.
  • noun Fiber or yarn for weaving or knitting into cloth.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to weaving: as, the textile art.
  • Woven, or capable of being woven; formed by weaving: as, textile fabrics; textile materials, such as wool, flax, silk, cotton.
  • noun A woven fabric.
  • noun A material suitable for weaving into a textile fabric: as, hemp and other textiles.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun That which is, or may be, woven; a fabric made by weaving.
  • adjective Pertaining to weaving or to woven fabrics; ; woven, capable of being woven; formed by weaving.
  • adjective (Zoöl.) a beautiful cone shell (Conus textilis) in which the colors are arranged so that they resemble certain kinds of cloth.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun usually plural Cloth produced from a fabric.
  • noun naturism a non-nudist
  • adjective naturism clothing compulsive.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers
  • adjective of or relating to fabrics or fabric making

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin, from neuter of textilis, woven, from textus, past participle of texere, to weave; see text.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Latin textile, substantive use of textilis ("woven"), from texō ("weave").

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