clothing
verbEtymology
From Middle English clothing, clathing; equivalent to clothe + -ing. Cognate with Scots cleeding, cleiding, cleading (“clothing”), Dutch kleding (“clothing”), German Kleidung (“clothing”), Danish klædning (“clothing, dress, attire”), Swedish klädning (“dress”). Doublet of the dialectal English term cleading, from Middle English clething; compare also cladding.
- inherited from clothing
Definitions
present participle and gerund of clothe
Any of a wide variety of articles, usually made of fabrics, animal hair, animal skin, or…
Any of a wide variety of articles, usually made of fabrics, animal hair, animal skin, or some combination thereof, used to cover the human body for warmth, to preserve modesty, or for fashion.
- Marco runs a clothing brand.
- You should wear warm clothing when it is cold outside.
- All but two pieces of clothing came out of the washing machine stained.
An act or instance of putting clothes on.
- The clothing and unclothing of the idols was of special significance.
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The art or process of making cloth.
A covering of non-conducting material on the outside of a boiler, or steam chamber, to…
A covering of non-conducting material on the outside of a boiler, or steam chamber, to prevent radiation of heat.
The neighborhood
- synonymclothes
- synonymattire
- synonymapparel
- synonymthreads
- synonymclothing
- synonymgarment
- synonymhabiliment
- synonymraiment
- synonymwardrobe
- synonymweed
- neighborvestiary
- neighborsartorial
- neighbor:Category:Clothing
- neighborAppendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class II § 225. Clothing
- neighborbagClothing-related terms
- neighborbeltClothing-related terms
- neighborblouseClothing-related terms
- neighborbraClothing-related terms
- neighborbriefsClothing-related terms
- neighborcapClothing-related terms
- neighborclotheClothing-related terms
- neighborcoatClothing-related terms
Derived
bedclothing, card-clothing, clothing bin, clothing compulsive, clothing hanger, clothing iron, clothing-iron, clothingless, clothing moth, clothing optional, clothing-optional, item of clothing, nonclothing, piece of clothing, sheep in wolf's clothing, there is no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing, underclothing, wolf in sheep's clothing
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at clothing. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at clothing. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at clothing
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA