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. — deniko
ruЯ подарил отцу шёлковый галстук. — ae5s
deIch schenkte meinem Vater eine Seidenkrawatte. — xtofu80
This feels like silk.
На дотик це схоже на шовк. — deniko
ruНа ощупь это как шелк. — sharptoothed
deDas fühlt sich wie Seide an. — al_ex_an_der
Tom wears silk neckties.
Том носить шовкові краватки. — deniko
ruТом носит шёлковые галстуки. — sharptoothed
deTom trägt Seidenkrawatten. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Tom wears silk ties.
Том носить шовкові краватки. — deniko
ruТом носит шёлковые галстуки. — sharptoothed
deTom trägt Seidenkrawatten. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Where can I buy silk?
Де я можу купити шовк? — Anjy
ruГде я могу купить шёлк? — odexed
deWo kann ich Seide kaufen? — pne
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
51 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