textile

noun
/ˈtɛk.staɪl/CA/ˈtek.stɑel/

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin textile, substantive use of textilis (“woven”), from texō (“weave”).

  1. borrowed from textile

Definitions

  1. Any material made of interlacing or matted fibres, including carpeting and geotextiles,…

    Any material made of interlacing or matted fibres, including carpeting and geotextiles, woven or nonwoven.

    • Near-synonym: cloth (not always differentiated)
  2. A non-nudist.

  3. Clothing compulsive.

    • a textile beach

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at textile. 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.

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A definitional loop anchored at textile. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at textile

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