silk
A fine fiber excreted by the silkworm or other arthropodA fine fiber excreted by the silkworm or other arthropod (such as a spider).
» I gave my father a silk tie.
Ich schenkte meinem Vater eine Seidenkrawatte.
Ich habe meinem Vater eine Seidenkrawatte geschenkt.
Я подарил отцу шёлковый галстук.
Я подарил своему отцу шелковый галстук.
Я дав батьку шовкову краватку.
Я дала батьку шовкову краватку.
Meaning
10 senses(uncountable)A fine fiber excreted by the silkworm or other arthropod (such as a spider).
We harvested a load of silk from the silkworm farm.
Seide
шёлкšolk
шовкšovk, єдва́бjedváb
(countable, uncountable)A thread or yarn made from silk fibers.
This is sewn from silk.
Seide
шёлкšolk
шовкšovk, єдва́бjedváb
(countable, uncountable)A fine, soft cloth woven from silk yarn or thread.
I'll buy a couple yards of silk.
A fine, soft cloth woven from silk yarn or thread.
(countable, in the plural, uncountable)A pair of long silk sheets suspended in the air on which a performer performs tricks.
She's a master with the silks.
(countable, uncountable)A parachute.
(countable, uncountable)An article of clothing made from silk cloth.
He's wearing his silk.
An article of clothing made from silk cloth.
(countable, usually plural, uncountable)The garments worn by a jockey displaying the colors of the horse's owner.
(countable, uncountable)The gown worn by a Senior (i.e., Queen's/King's) Counsel.
The gown worn by a Senior (i.e., Queen's/King's) Counsel.
(colloquial, countable, figuratively, metonymically, uncountable)A Queen's Counsel, King's Counsel or Senior Counsel.
(countable, uncountable)Anything which resembles silk, such as the filiform styles of the female flower of maize or the seed covering of bombaxes.
- a fabric made from the fine threads produced by certain insect larvae
- animal fibers produced by silkworms and other larvae that spin cocoons and by most spiders
Examples
140 sentencesI gave my father a silk tie.
Я дав батьку шовкову краватку.
ruЯ подарил отцу шёлковый галстук.
deIch schenkte meinem Vater eine Seidenkrawatte.
This feels like silk.
На дотик це схоже на шовк.
ruНа ощупь это как шелк.
deDas fühlt sich wie Seide an.
Tom wears silk neckties.
Том носить шовкові краватки.
ruТом носит шёлковые галстуки.
deTom trägt Seidenkrawatten.
Tom wears silk ties.
Том носить шовкові краватки.
ruТом носит шёлковые галстуки.
deTom trägt Seidenkrawatten.
Where can I buy silk?
Де я можу купити шовк?
ruГде я могу купить шёлк?
deWo kann ich Seide kaufen?
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English silk, sylk, selk, selc, from Old English sioloc, seoloc, seolc (“silk”From Middle English silk, sylk, selk, selc, from Old English sioloc, seoloc, seolc (“silk”). The immediate source is uncertain; it probably reached English via the Baltic trade routes (cognates in Old Norse silki (> Danish silke, Swedish silke (“silk”)), Russian шёлк (šolk), obsolete Lithuanian zilkai̇̃), all ultimately from Late Latin sēricus, from Ancient Greek σηρικός (sērikós), ultimately from an Oriental language (represented now by e.g. Chinese 絲 /丝 (sī, “silk”)). Displaced Old English sīde (“silk”). Compare Seres. Doublet of seric and serge.
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Forms
plural: silksWord family
52 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
Collocations
3 patterns- a silk dress
- wearing a silk
- silk dress