Meaning

1 senses

  1. To weave (cloth, etc.) so as to produce the appearance of diagonal lines or ribs on the surface.

    weave diagonal lines into (textiles)

Examples

2 sentences

  1. Do you know the difference between twill and corduroy?

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  2. Did you know that denim is actually a type of twill fabric?

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Forms

twills, twilling, twilled, twilled
Base formtwill · to twill
3rd person singulartwills
Present participletwilling
Past simpletwilled
Past participletwilled

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theytwill
he, she, ittwills

Past simpleLesson

all personstwilled

Present perfectLesson

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

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill twill

Word family

1 related words
Derivedtwilled

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
twigtwilighttwinB1twine

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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