cloth
A fabric, usually made of woven, knitted, or felted fibres or filaments, such as used…A fabric, usually made of woven, knitted, or felted fibres or filaments, such as used in dressing, decorating, cleaning or other practical use. Sometimes, woven fabric specifically.
» This cloth is superior to that.
Dieser Stoff ist höherwertiger als jener.
Dieser Stoff ist qualitativ besser als jener.
Dieser Stoff hat eine bessere Qualität als jener.
Ця тканина краща за ту.
Ця тканина якісніша за ту.
Meaning
7 senses(countable, uncountable)A fabric, usually made of woven, knitted, or felted fibres or filaments, such as used in dressing, decorating, cleaning or other practical use. Sometimes, woven fabric specifically.
Near-synonyms: (not always differentiated) fabric, material (fabric sense), textile; see also Thesaurus:fabric
Stoff, Tuch
тканьtkanʹ, мате́рияmatérija, сукно́suknó
ткани́наtkanýna, сукно́suknó
(countable, uncountable)Specifically, a tablecloth, especially as spread before a meal or removed afterwards.
(countable)A piece of cloth used for a particular purpose.
Tuch, Lappen
тря́пкаtrjápka
ганчі́ркаhančírka
(countable, figuratively, uncountable)Substance or essence; the whole of something complex.
(countable, figuratively, uncountable)Appearance; seeming.
(countable, uncountable)A form of attire that represents a particular profession or status.
мунди́рmundír, фо́рмаfórma
(countable, idiomatic, uncountable, with definite article)The priesthood.
He is a respected man of the cloth.
- artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers
Examples
200 sentencesThis cloth is superior to that.
Ця тканина краща за ту. — deniko
deDieser Stoff ist höherwertiger als jener. — Tamy
Tom wiped the table with a wet cloth.
Том протер стіл вологою ганчіркою. — deniko
This cloth will not last long.
deDieser Stoff wird nicht lange halten. — Tamy
We use cloth to make clothes.
She bought a yard of cloth.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English cloth, clath, from Old English clāþ (“cloth, clothes, covering, sail”)From Middle English cloth, clath, from Old English clāþ (“cloth, clothes, covering, sail”), from Proto-West Germanic *klaiþ, from Proto-Germanic *klaiþą (“garment”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *gleyt- (“to cling to, cleave, stick”) (compare Albanian ngjit (“to stick, attach, glue”)), a form of *gleh₁y- (“to smear; to stick”). Cognate with Scots clath (“cloth”), North Frisian klaid (“dress, garment”), Saterland Frisian Klood (“dress, apparel”), West Frisian klaad, kleed (“cloth, article of clothing”), Dutch kleed (“robe, dress”), Low German kleed (“dress, garment”), German Kleid (“gown, dress”), Danish klæde (“cloth, dress”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk klede, Swedish kläde (“cloth”), Icelandic klæði (“cloth, dressing”), Old English clīþan (“to adhere, stick”).
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Forms
plural: clothsSynonyms
5 synonymsWord family
131 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable