Meaning

2 senses

  1. (intransitive)To develop silk.

  2. (transitive)To remove the silk from (corn).

Examples

140 sentences

  1. I 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

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  2. 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

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  3. Tom wears silk neckties.

    Том носить шовкові краватки. — deniko

    ruТом носит шёлковые галстуки. — sharptoothed

    deTom trägt Seidenkrawatten. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  4. Tom wears silk ties.

    Том носить шовкові краватки. — deniko

    ruТом носит шёлковые галстуки. — sharptoothed

    deTom trägt Seidenkrawatten. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  5. Where can I buy silk?

    Де я можу купити шовк? — Anjy

    ruГде я могу купить шёлк? — odexed

    deWo kann ich Seide kaufen? — pne

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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

silks, silking, silked, silked
Base formsilk · to silk
3rd person singularsilks
Present participlesilking
Past simplesilked
Past participlesilked

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theysilk
he, she, itsilks

Past simpleLesson

all personssilked

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave silked
he, she, ithas silked

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill silk

Word family

1 related words
Relatedsericin

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

Collocations

3 patterns
  • a silk dress
  • wearing a silk
  • silk dress

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
silhouetteC1silicasiliconsilkensilkwormsilky

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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