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Definition: Wool |
WoolNoun1. A fabric made from the hair of sheep. 2. Fiber sheared from animals (such as sheep) and twisted into yarn for weaving. 3. Outer coat of especially sheep and yaks. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "wool" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
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Computing | WOOL Window Object Oriented Language. A small Common Lisp-like extension language. It claims to be the fastest interpreted language in C with run-time types. Colas Nahaboo |
Bible | Wool one of the first material used for making woven cloth (Lev. 13:47, 48, 52, 59; 19:19). The first-fruit of wool was to be offered to the priests (Deut. 18:4). The law prohibiting the wearing of a garment "of divers sorts, as of woollen and linen together" (Deut. 22:11) may, like some other laws of a similar character, have been intended to express symbolically the separateness and simplicity of God's covenant people. The wool of Damascus, famous for its whiteness, was of great repute in the Tyrian market (Ezek. 27:18). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of wool, is a pleasing sign of prosperous opportunities to expand your interests. To see soiled, or dirty wool, foretells that you will seek employment with those who detest your principles. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Literature | Wool Dyed in the wool. A hearty good-fellow. Cloth which is wool-dyed (not piece-dyed), is true throughout "and will wash." No wool is so white that a dyer cannot blacken it. No one is so free from faults that slander can find nothing to say against him; no book is so perfect as to be free from adverse criticism. "Maister Mainwaring's much abuzed, Most grievously for things accuse, And all the dowlish [devilish] pack; E'en let mun all their poison spit, My lord, there is no wooll zo whit That dyers can't make black." Peter Pindar: Middlesex Election, letter iii. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Wool is the fiber derived from the hair of domesticated animals, usually sheep. Most of the fiber from domestic sheep has two qualities that distinguish it from hair or fur: it is scaled in such a way that helps the animal move out burrs and seeds that might embed themselves into its skin; and it is crimped, in some fleeces more than 20 bends per inch.
Both the scaling and the crimp make it possible to spin and felt the fleece. They help the individual fibers "grab" each other so that they stay together. They also make the product retain heat, as they trap heat in their bends.
Hair, by contrast, has little if any scale and no crimp and little ability to bind into yarn. On sheep, the hair part of the fleece is called kemp. The relative amounts of kemp to wool vary from breed to breed, and make some fleeces more desirable for spinning, felting or carding into batts for quilts or other insulating products.
Wool is processed into clothing, carpeting, felt, and padding. As the raw material has been readily available since the widespread domestication of sheep and similar animals, the use of wool for clothing and other fabrics dates back to some of the earliest civilizations. Wool takes dye easily and can be felted.
Wool straight off a sheep is highly water-resistant. It is said to be "in the grease," the grease being lanolin, and can be worked into yarn and knit into water-resistant mittens, as did the Aran Island fishermen. Wool retains heat better than most fabrics when wet. Australia and New Zealand are leading producers of wool.
The spinning capacity of wool is determined by the technique known as wool classing, whereby a qualified woolclasser might group wools of similar gradings together to maximise the return for a farmer wishing to yield the most from the sheep's fleeces.
See also:
- worsted
- woolen
- weaving
- spinning
- knitting
- canvas work
- British Wool Marketing Board
- Angora wool
- steel wool
- Woolmen's Company
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Wool."
Synonyms: WoolSynonyms: fleece (n), woolen (n), woollen (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Affections | Inborn, inbred, ingrained; deep-rooted, ineffaceable, inveterate; pathoscopic; congenital, dyed in the wool, implanted by nature, inherent, in the grain. |
Boasting | Vanity; vox et praeterea nihil; much cry and little wool, brutum fulmen. |
Clothing | Swaddling cloth, baby linen, layette; ice wool; taffeta. |
Cooperation | Adjective: cooperating; Verb: in cooperation; Noun: in league; (party); coadjuvant, coadjutant; dyed in the wool; cooperative; additive; participative; coactive, synergetic, synergistic. |
Disappointment | Noun: disappointment; blighted hope, balk; blow; anticlimax; slip 'twixt cup and lip; nonfulfillment of one's hopes; sad disappointment, bitter disappointment; trick of fortune; afterclap; false expectation, vain expectation; miscalculation; fool's paradise; much cry and little wool. |
Heat | Fiery; incandescent, incalescent; candent, ebullient, glowing, smoking; live; on fire; dazzling. Verb: in flames, blazing, in a blaze; alight, afire, ablaze; unquenched, unextinguished; smoldering; in a heat, in a glow, in a fever, in a perspiration, in a sweat; sudorific; sweltering, sweltered; blood hot, blood warm; warm as a toast, warm as wool. |
Overestimation | Noun: overestimation; Verb: exaggeration; vanity; optimism, pessimism, pessimist. much cry and little wool, much ado about nothing; storm in a teacup, tempest in a teacup; fine talking. |
Roughness | Wool, velvet, plush, nap, pile, floss, fur, down; byssus, moss, bur; fluff. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Wool |
| English words defined with "wool": Dead pulled wool ♦ Fleece wool ♦ glass wool ♦ Hog of wool ♦ Pine wool, Pine-needle wool, Pulled wool ♦ Rag wool, raw wool ♦ Seed wool, Shetland wool, Skin wool, Slag wool ♦ To clack wool ♦ virgin wool ♦ Wool ball, Wool burler, Wool comber, wool fat, wool grease, wool oil, wool sorter, Wool sorter's disease, Wool staple, Wool stapler, Wool winder. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "wool": andalusian wool ♦ breech wool, burry wool ♦ glover's wool, Great Cry and Little Wool ♦ hot washed wool ♦ Lamb's Wool ♦ MINERAL WOOL BLANKET ♦ National Wool Act of 1954 ♦ Salamander's Wool, SAMPLER, WOOL, scoured wool, shivey wool, shorn wool, strawy wool ♦ thibet wool ♦ waste of sheep's or lamb's wool, WHITE WOOL, Wool Act of 1954, Wool and mohair commodity programs, wool grease olein, wool lamb skin, WOOL PULLER, WOOL SACKER, wool shearer, wool sheep skin, wool tamper. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "wool": Woolsey. (references) |
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Screenplays | There's so much wool you could knit a sweater (Porky's; writing credit: Bob Clark) From now on I'm only buying imported wool. (Daria; writing credit: Glenn Eichler; Peggy Nicoll) Yeah we can, we'll put a wool hat on it and say it's you. (Phoenix Nights; writing credit: Neil Fitzmaurice; Peter Kay) Well, you can't pull the wool over my ice. (Horse Feathers; writing credit: Will B. Johnstone; Bert Kalmar) | |
Clever | Where do you get virgin wool from? Ugly sheep. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Steal Wool (1957) Yarn of Wool (1932) Died in the Wool (1927) All Wool (1925) Pulling Wool (1901) | |
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 | This 50 year old female had been a carder in a wool factory for 6 years. This lesion is on the 8th day of the illness. Cutaneous anthrax usually occurs after skin contact with contaminated meat, wool, hides, or leather from infected animals. Credit: CDC. |  | Landowner and James Burgess, NRCS District Conservationist, discuss farming and conservation issues on Burkes’ sheep farm, Armstrong County, PA, while farmer shows the quality of wool on her sheep. [Slide 97CS3099]. Credit: Bob Nichols. |
 | Long and short hair wool at the South Central Farmily Farm Research Center in Boonesville, AR. Credit: USDA. |  | Mr. McKinley presents a counter attraction to his "all wool" suit of clothing. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | "Wool Bill" ram leaping over "Presidential veto" banner, held by House Leader Oscar Wilder Underwood and Speaker James Beauchamp Clark dressed as clowns in "Democratic House of Representatives" arena] / Bart. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Uncle Sam and "Canadian Reciprocity" woman sitting on opposite ends of park bench with two small children, "Wool Bill" and "Farmer's Free List". Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Electron microscope being used to study wool, in laboratory of Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Organization. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | An 85,000 wool clip, Rosewell, N.M. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | John Ellis Wool, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the right, in military uniform, hand in coat. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Moving bag of wool, Rosebud County, Montana. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Blue wool beret" by Ricardo Colombo Commentary: "Blue wool beret." |
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St. Jerome | Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness? |
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John Locke | 1690 | Again, if he would give his nuts for a piece of metal, pleased with its colour; or exchange his sheep for shells, or wool for a sparkling pebble or a diamond, and keep those by him all his life he invaded not the right of others, he might heap up as much of these durable things as he pleased; the exceeding of the bounds of his just property not lying in the largeness of his possession, but the perishing of any thing uselesly in it. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | In political practice, therefore, they join in all coercive measures against the working class; and in ordinary life, despite their high falutin phrases, they stoop to pick up the golden apples dropped from the tree of industry, and to barter truth, love, and honour for traffic in wool, beetroot-sugar, and potato spirits. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | During a further period of thirty months after the expiration of the first six months, this provision shall continue to be applied exclusively with regard to products which, being comprised in Section A of the First Category of the German Customs Tariff of December 25, 1902, enjoyed at the above-mentioned date (July 31, 1914) rates conventionalised by treaties with the Allied and Associated Powers, with the addition of all kinds of wine and vegetable oils, of artificial silk and of washed or scoured wool whether or not they were the subject of special conventions before July 31, 1914. (reference) |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | He had a very fine flock, and, while she was with them, he had been bid more for his wool than any body in the country |
Through the Looking-Glass | Carroll, Lewis | CHAPTER V. WOOL AND WATER |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The mattress was a straw mat, the covering a large blanket of coarse grey wool, very warm and almost new. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The man was dressed in gray wool trousers and a blue shirt, dark blue with sweat on the back and under the arms |
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Health | Use window screens, chimney caps, and draft-guards beneath doors to attics, fill electrical and plumbing holes with stainless steel wool or caulking, and ensure that all doors to the outside close tightly. (references) | |
Business | Men wear stylish medium weight wool suits during the winter months. (references) | |
U.S. 100% wool carpets are not much in demand because of South China’s warm weather; however, chemical carpets are in demand. (references) | ||
The flooring products market, including wood, synthetics or specialty materials (but excluding wool rugs, ceramics and tiles) is estimated at USD 1 billion annually. (references) | ||
Economic History | Kazakhstan | Chief livestock products are dairy goods, leather, meat, and wool. (references) |
Lesotho | Trade (1996 est.): Exports--$218 million; clothing, furniture, footwear and wool. (references) | |
Namibia | Agriculture (12% of GDP, 2000): Products--beef , karakul (sheep) pelts, wool, other meat, fish. (references) | |
Political Economy | URUGUAY | The government provides a nine- percent subsidy to wool fabric and apparel producers using funds from taxes on certain wool exports. (references) |
New Zealand | The country has a population of approximately 3.8 million; it produces agricultural products and exports wool, meat, and dairy products. (references) | |
Mongolia | The mainstays of the economy continue to be copper production and other mining, livestock raising (which is done by a majority of the rural population), and related food, wool, and hide processing industries, which produce goods for local consumption and for export. (references) | |
Trade | New Zealand | Wool products, defined as any product containing 50% or more by weight of wool, must be marked to show, in English, a trade description of the main fabric in the product and the percentage by the weight of the wool in the product. (references) |
China | However, many products subject to import quotas also require import licenses, including some wool, grains, oilseeds and oilseed products, cotton, iron and steel products, commercial aircraft, passenger vehicles, fertilizer, hauling trucks, and rubber products. (references) | |
Nepal | Banned items include articles of archeological and religious importance, controlled wildlife and by-products, narcotic substances, articles related to explosive materials or required for the production of arms and ammunition, industrial raw materials (such as raw leather, raw wool, imported raw materials, parts, capital goods), and other goods such as logs and timber. (references) | |
Travel | Ireland | Wool jackets and hats are ideal. (references) |
Honduras | At this time lightweight wool and long sleeves may be worn. (references) | |
Chad | One can find restaurants, bars, food products, carpets, woven mats, hardware, fabric, jewelry, African artisan goods, wool rugs, beads, leather products, and wood carvings. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Romania | Also in 2000, Sabina Nicolescu, a trade union leader in a wool company, was beaten after receiving threats from the company owner. (references) |
Pakistan | There is a reasonable basis to believe that handmade bricks and hand-woven wool carpets are produced with forced or indentured child labor. (references) | |
China | Female prisoners clean toilets and also are involved in tailoring, cleaning, or spinning and sorting wool to be used in the manufacture of carpets and sweaters. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | PRESENTABLE, adj. Hideously appareled after the manner of the time and place. In Boorioboola-Gha a man is presentable on occasions of ceremony if he have his abdomen painted a bright blue and wear a cow's tail; in New York he may, if it please him, omit the paint, but after sunset he must wear two tails made of the wool of a sheep and dyed black. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Wool" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.83% of the time. "Wool" is used about 1,781 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.83% | 1,778 | 4,750 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.11% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.06% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,781 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "wool" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Wool | Last name | 400 | 21,122 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "wool". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Zemaraim | N/A | Biblical | Wool |
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| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Japan | The Japan Wool Textile Co Ltd | South Korea | Kyung Nam Wool Textile Co., Ltd. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "wool": a ball of wool ♦ Abb wool ♦ absorbent cotton wool ♦ all wool ♦ andalusian wool ♦ angora wool ♦ berlin wool ♦ botany wool ♦ breech wool ♦ burry wool ♦ carded wool ♦ carding wool ♦ cashmere wool ♦ cheviot wool ♦ comb wool ♦ combed wool ♦ combing wool ♦ cotton wool ♦ cotton wool ball ♦ Dead pulled wool ♦ dead wool ♦ dusted wool ♦ dyed in the wool ♦ fallen wool ♦ fine staple wool ♦ fine wool ♦ Fleece wool ♦ glass wool ♦ glover's wool ♦ goat's wool ♦ hair or wool ♦ Hog of wool ♦ hot washed wool ♦ ice wool ♦ knitting wool ♦ Lamb's wool ♦ lose one's wool ♦ mestizo wool ♦ mineral wool ♦ much cry and little wool ♦ new wool ♦ Philosopher's wool ♦ piece of wool ♦ pine wool ♦ pull the wool over someone's eyes ♦ pulled wool ♦ pure wool ♦ rag wool ♦ raw wool ♦ rock wool ♦ Salamander's wool ♦ Scottish wool ♦ scoured wool ♦ seed wool ♦ sheep's wool ♦ Shetland wool ♦ shivey wool ♦ shorn wool ♦ skin wool ♦ slag wool ♦ steel wool ♦ strawy wool ♦ stripped wool ♦ thibet wool ♦ thick wool ♦ To clack wool ♦ To dye in the wool ♦ Tree wool ♦ tuft of wool ♦ unrefined cotton wool ♦ virgin wool ♦ wad of cotton wool ♦ warm as wool ♦ waste of sheep's or lamb's wool ♦ waste wool ♦ wire wool ♦ wood wool ♦ wool ball ♦ wool burler ♦ wool cloth ♦ wool comber ♦ wool fat ♦ wool fiber ♦ wool gathering ♦ wool grass ♦ wool grease ♦ wool grease olein ♦ wool hall ♦ wool lamb skin ♦ wool manufacturer ♦ Wool Market ♦ wool mattress ♦ wool mill ♦ wool oil ♦ wool production ♦ wool scribbler ♦ wool sheep skin ♦ wool sorter ♦ wool sorter's disease ♦ wool sorter's pneumonia ♦ wool staple. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "wool": wool-based, wool-breeder, wool-breeding, wool-broker, wool-brokers, wool-carding, wool-churches, wool-clad, wool-cloth, wool-combing, wool-combs, wool-dealer, wool-draper, Wool-dyed, wool-fell, wool-gathering, wool-gatheringly, wool-grower, Wool-hall, wool-lined, wool-merchant, wool-mix, wool-mohair, wool-pack, wool-packers, wool-producing, wool-ranchers, wool-rich, wool-shed, wool-skin, wool-sorter's disease, wool-spinning, wool-suckers, wool-sucking, wool-trade, wool-work, wool-workers. | |
Ending with "wool": cotton-wool. | |
Containing "wool": Camel-wool-acrylic, cotton-wool-like, cotton-wool-tipped, dyed-in-the-wool yarn-dyed, lamb's-wool-sweatered, Sheep's-wool sponge, steel-wool pad. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
wool sweater | 1,798 | mattress pad wool | 21 |
wool | 271 | wool slipper | 19 |
wool rug | 236 | smart wool sock | 18 |
g wool | 112 | rock wool | 18 |
wool area rug | 111 | knitting wool | 18 |
wool blanket | 105 | cotton spot wool | 18 |
wool sock | 70 | wool braided rug | 18 |
wool fabric | 63 | pendleton wool | 17 |
wool carpet | 56 | wool hat | 17 |
wool pants | 56 | sheep and wool | 17 |
wool yarn | 50 | wool tights | 16 |
wool coat | 42 | fetish wool | 15 |
wool felt | 41 | wool roving | 14 |
mineral wool | 37 | insulation mineral wool | 13 |
smart wool | 35 | carding wool | 12 |
wool jacket | 34 | wool pantie hose | 12 |
merino wool | 30 | wool clothing | 12 |
new zealand wool | 30 | wool dye | 11 |
steel wool | 30 | rug hooking wool | 11 |
spinning wool | 26 | wool turtleneck sweater | 11 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "wool"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | wol. (various references) | |
Albanian | rrobë e leshtë, lesh (fur). (various references) | |
Arabic | وبر (fur, livery), عهن, صوف. (various references) | |
Basque | artile. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | руно (fell, fleece, hair), гъста къдрава коса, вълнено, вълнен (woolen, woollen, woolly), нещо прилично на вълна. (various references) | |
Chamorro | lana. (various references) | |
Chinese | 羊毛 (fleece, woolen). (various references) | |
Czech | vlna (rash, roller, sea, surge, tide, upsurge, wave). (various references) | |
Danish | uld (not carded or combed, pile, sheep's or lamb's wool). (various references) | |
Dutch | wollen, wol (not carded or combed, saddle, sheep's or lamb's wool). (various references) | |
Esperanto | lano, lana. (various references) | |
Faeroese | ull. (various references) | |
Farsi | پشم(wooled), مو (Grape, Grapevine, Hair), نخ پشم , کرک (Fuzz, Pile, Pubes), جامه پشمی . (various references) | |
Finnish | villa. (various references) | |
French | laine. (various references) | |
German | Wolle (wools). (various references) | |
Greek | μαλλί (fleece). (various references) | |
Hebrew | בד צמר, צמר (fleece). (various references) | |
Hungarian | gyapjú (fleece, flock, pile, woollen, woolly). (various references) | |
Icelandic | ull. (various references) | |
Indonesian | kapas (card, cotton). (various references) | |
Inuktitut | qulittaujaq nuviqsaaq (wool jacket). (various references) | |
Irish | olann. (various references) | |
Italian | lana (wools). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 羊毛 , 羊毛 , 緯糸 , 絨毛 , イ長調 (A major, woman, woman hunter, woman power, women's liberation, woofer, woolly cotton, woolly nylon, Worcestersauce, worsted). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ウール , ようもう, じゅうもう (soft hair). (various references) | |
Korean | 모직 (Woolen, woollen). (various references) | |
Manx | cannagh (hare's tail). (various references) | |
Norwegian | ull (fleece). (various references) | |
Occitan | lana. (various references) | |
Papago | kahwal wopo. (various references) | |
Papiamen | lana. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oolway.(various references) | |
Portuguese | lã (fleece). (various references) | |
Romanian | pãr creţ (curl), obiecte de îmbrãcãminte din lânã, lânã (coat, fleece), fir de lânã, ţesãturã de lânã. (various references) | |
Romansch | launa. (various references) | |
Romany | poshom. (various references) | |
Russian | шерсть (fleece, fur, hair, pelage, wadding). (various references) | |
Scottish | olann, clòimh (down of). (various references) | |
Sepedi | boya. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vuneni (all wool), vuna (fleece, pelage). (various references) | |
Shona | mvere. (various references) | |
Spanish | lana (berlin wool, domett, fleece, wools). (various references) | |
Swazi | b-ôyá. (various references) | |
Swedish | ull (fleece, hair), ylle (wollen), garn (cotton, net, silk, thread, yarn). (various references) | |
Turkish | yün (fleece wool, woollen). (various references) | |
Turkmen | яьс. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | шерсть (hair), вовняна пряжа (cashmere), вовна (fur), волокно (fiber, fibre), вата (bombast, cotton, wadding), пух (floss, fluff, fuzz). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | len (staple, stapler), lông chiên hàng len, lông cừu. (various references) | |
Welsh | gwlân, gwla+n, edau (thread, yarn). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | 2. sig, síg. (various references) |
| Akkadian | 3000 BCE-Modern | šîpâtu. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | cocci, coccino, coccinum, cocco, coccoque, coccum, coccumque, comae, comam, comas, lana, lanae, lanam, lanarum, lanis. (various references) |
| Late Latin | 300-700 | burra. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Acts Chapter 8, Verse 32 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | H de perioch thV grafhV hn aneginwsken hn auth wV probaton epi sfaghn hcqh kai wV amnoV enantion tou keirontoV auton afwnoV outwV ouk anoigei to stoma autou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Locus autem scripturae quam legebat erat hic tamquam ovis ad occisionem ductus est et sicut agnus coram tondente se sine voce sic non aperuit os suum |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And the place of the scripture that he redde, was this, As a scheep he was led to sleyng, and as a lomb bifor a man that scherith him is doumb with out vois, so he openyde not his mouth. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | The tenoure of ye scripture which he redde was this. He was ledde as a shepe to be slayne: and lyke a lambe dome before his sherer so opened he not his mouth. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth: |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so he opened not his mouth: |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Now the place in the book where he was reading was this: He was taken, like a sheep, to be put to death; and as a lamb is quiet when its wool is being cut, so he made no sound: |
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| Language | Acts Chapter 8, Verse 32 |
| Albanian | Por pjesa e Shkrimit që ai po lexonte ishte kjo: ''Atë e çuan si delja në thertore; dhe ashtu si qengji është memec përpara qethtarit, kështu ai nuk e hapi gojën e vet. |
| Cebuano | Ug ang bahin sa kasulatan nga iyang gibasa mao kini: Maingon nga dili lamang magatingog ang karnero nga pagadad-on sa ihawan o ang nating karnero sa atubangan sa iyang mag-aalot, maingon man siya, sa iyang baba wala magbuka. |
| Croatian | A èitao je ovaj odlomak Pisma: Ko ovcu na klanje odvedoše ga, ko janje nijemo pred onim što ga striže on ne otvara svojih usta. |
| Danish | Men det Stykke af Skriften, som han læste, var dette: "Som et Får blev han ført til Slagtning, og som et Lam er stumt imod den, der klipper det, således oplader han ej sin Mund. |
| Dutch | En de plaats der Schriftuur, die hij las, was deze: Hij is gelijk een schaap ter slachting geleid; en gelijk een lam stemmeloos is voor dien, die het scheert, alzo doet Hij Zijn mond niet open. |
| Finnish | Ja se kirjoitus, jota hän luki, oli tämä: "Niinkuin lammas hänet viedään teuraaksi; ja niinkuin karitsa on ääneti keritsijänsä edessä, niin ei hänkään suutansa avaa. |
| French | Le passage de l`Écriture qu`il lisait était celui-ci: Il a été mené comme une brebis à la boucherie; Et, comme un agneau muet devant celui qui le tond, Il n`a point ouvert la bouche. |
| German | Der Inhalt aber der Schrift, die er las, war dieser: "Er ist wie ein Schaf zur Schlachtung geführt; und still wie ein Lamm vor seinem Scherer, also hat er nicht aufgetan seinen Mund. |
| Haitian Creole | Men pasaj li t'ap li nan liv la: Li te tankou yon mouton yo t'ap mennen labatwa. Li te tankou yon ti mouton ki pa janm rele lè y'ap taye lenn sou do li. Li pa janm louvri bouch li di anyen. |
| Hungarian | Az írásnak helye pedig, melyet olvasott, ez vala: Mint juh viteték mészárszékre, és mint a bárány az õ nyírõje elõtt néma, azonképen nem nyitotta fel az õ száját. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Inilah ayat-ayat yang dibacanya itu, "Ia seperti domba yang digiring untuk disembelih, seperti anak domba yang tidak mengembik kalau bulunya digunting, begitulah Ia tidak mengucapkan sepatah kata pun. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Adapun nas yang dibacanya di dalam kitab itu, demikian bunyinya: Bahwa Ia dibawa seperti seekor domba akan disembelih, dan seperti seekor anak domba bisu di hadapan penggunting, demikianlah tiada Ia membuka mulutnya, |
| Italian | Il passo della Scrittura che stava leggendo era questo: e come un agnello senza voce innanzi a chi lo tosa, così egli non apre la sua bocca. |
| Maori | Na, ko te wahi o te karaipiture e korero nei ia, ko tenei, I arahina ia ano he hipi kia patua; a, me te reme e wahangu ana i te aroaro o tona kaikutikuti, kihai i kuihi tona waha; |
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