Textile

Definition: Textile

Textile

Adjective

1. Of or relating to fabrics or fabric making; "textile research".

Noun

1. Artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "textile" was first used: 1626. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Textile

Crossing

Cross, cruciform, crucial; retiform, reticular, reticulated; areolar, cancellated, grated, barred, streaked; textile; crossbarred, cruciate, palmiped, secant; web-footed.

Texture

Textural, textile; fine grained, coarse grained; fine, delicate, subtile, gossamery, filmy, silky, satiny; coarse; homespun.

Crosswords: Textile

French (fabric, fabrics, textile), Latin (fabric, textile), Romanian (soft goods, textiles).

My name's Little Cletus and I'm here to tell you a few things about child labor laws, ok? They're silly and outdated. Why back in the 30s, children as young as five could work in textile mills and iron sheds (Zoolander; writing credit: Drake Sather; Ben Stiller)

They're closing down the textile mill across the railroad tracks (MY HOMETOWN; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Carnival Textile Industrial Corp: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Alif Textile Industries Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Allied Textile Companies Plc: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• China Textile Machinery Stock Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Chung Shing Textile Co. Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Textile Pattern Book: 1200 Monotone Designs: Floral, Graphic, Geometric (Belvedere Design Book, Vol 26) (reference)

• Cotton Fibers: Developmental Biology, Quality Improvement, and Textile Processing (reference)

• L'entrepreneur et l'état en Syrie : le secteur privé du textile à Alep (reference)

• H'Mong Batik: A Textile Technique from Laos (reference)

• Californian Textile Block: Frank Lloyd Wright at a Glance (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Davisons Textile Blue Book (reference)

• International Textile Monitor (reference)

• Journal Of China Textile University - English Ed (reference)

• Seni Kikai Gakkai Shi=Journal Of The Textile Machinery Society Of Japan (reference)

• Southern Textile News (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Textile Magicians : Japan (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Cotton on the right has been ginned and is ready for conversion into yarn at a textile mill. Credit: USDA ARS News.

Does the thought of socks and underwear conjure up concerns about bacteria? Yes, microbes can reside and multiply in textile fabrics. But no matter-ARS researchers have developed treatments for cotton textiles with compounds containing peroxides. they resist bacteria and, as a bonus, resist fungi that cause athlete's foot. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

Women working in textile factory, Poland. Credit: Library of Congress.

Rahime Bistika, a picked woman-worker of the "Stalin" textile plants in Tirana ... Credit: Library of Congress.

R. McGill, full-length portrait, seated in chair, facing front, with textile screen in background. Credit: Library of Congress.

Southwick Hall, textile school, Lowell, Mass. Credit: Library of Congress.

A street in Taftville, Connecticut, during the changing of the shift at the textile mill. Credit: Library of Congress.

India in the war. Girl workers in a booming Bombay textile mill. Thirty-five percent of India's great cotton textiles production, amounting to some 5,000,000,000 yards a year, is going into war materials for India and United Nations. Credit: Library of Congress.

Patterned textile hanging on a wall. Credit: Library of Congress.

Detail of a patterned textile. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Further, during the period above mentioned the German Government shall allow the free export from Germany, and the free re-importation into Germany, exempt from all customs duties and other charges (including internal charges), of yarns, tissues, and other textile materials or textile products of any kind and in any condition, sent from Germany into the territories of Alsace or Lorraine, to be subjected there to any finishing process, such as bleaching, dyeing, printing, mercerisation, gassing, twisting or dressing. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

The German home textile market is highly diversified and developed. (references)

These three sectors comprise an $8 billion per annum textile industry. (references)

These enterprises are supported by the Galicia Textile Association in Spain. (references)

Civil Liberties

Ghana

In 2000 Accra textile traders were told that they could not hold a demonstration to protest a textile price hike because they lacked a police permit, although there is no legal requirement for a permit. (references)

Economic History

Vietnam

Name of sector: Textile Machine/Equip. (references)

Dominican Rep

Fabrics & yarns and manufactured textile products. (references)

Political Economy

PAKISTAN

Piracy of copyrighted textile designs is also a serious problem. (references)

Vietnam

Recent sessions have taken up banking, legal, labor, taxation, foreign direct investment, trade, textile quota and other matters. (references)

Burma

Although Burma's textile exports are not embargoed, the absence of an agreement allows the U.S. to unilaterally impose import quotas. (references)

Trade

Cote D'ivoire

Only textile products are subject to a few authorization requirements. (references)

Mauritius

Mauritian sugar and textile exports enter the EU under this agreement. (references)

Panama

The new CBI Law permits more liberal treatment of textile imports from CBI countries. (references)

Travel

Chad

The Centre d'Apprentissage Manuel Feminin (CTIMAF) behind the Farcha Cemetery sells handmade textile items. (references)

Women

Guatemala

Women are employed primarily in low-wage jobs in the textile industry, agriculture, retail businesses, and the public sector. (references)

Tunisia

Women continue to enter the work force in increasing numbers, particularly in the textile, manufacturing, health, and agricultural sectors. (references)

Worker Rights

Italy

Leather, fur, and textile industries attract many of the illegal workers. (references)

Eritrea

The largest union within the NCEW is the Textile, Leather, and Shoe Federation. (references)

Portugal

Poor environmental controls in textile production also cause considerable concern. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "textile": glass textile ♦ Textile cone ♦ textile crop ♦ textile flock ♦ textile floor covering with pile ♦ textile goods ♦ textile industry ♦ textile machine ♦ textile mill ♦ textile paper ♦ textile screw pine ♦ textile waste ♦ textile worker. Additional references.

Beginning with "textile": textile-artisan, textile-based, textile-exporting, textile-machinery, textile-making, textile-manufacturing, textile-operatives, textile-oriented, textile-processing, textile-related, textile-to-foods, textile-trade, textile-warehouse, textile-worker, textile-workers.

Ending with "textile": non-textile.

Albanian

tekstil. (various references)

Arabic 

‏نسيج (knitting, spun, texture, weaving, web, weft, woof), ‏نسجي, ‏قماش (cloth, fabric, tarpaulin, texture, tick, tissue, weft), ‏خيط مستخدم في نسيج. (various references)

Bulgarian 

тъкан (cloth, contexture, fabric, tissue, weave, web, weft, woof), текстилен, материя (fabric, material, matter, stuff, substance, wear), плат (cloth, coating, fabric, material, wear). (various references)

Chinese 

纺织品, 紡織品 . (various references)

Czech

tkanina (cloth, fabric, tissue, weave, weft, woof), textilní, textilie (dry goods). (various references)

Danish

tekstildistrikt (textile area), tæppe med flokluv (flocked carpet, flocked pile textile floor covering), tæppe med knyttet luv (knotted pile carpet, textile floor covering with knotted pile carpet), tekstilaffald (textile waste), tekstilfiber (textile fibre), tekstilflok (textile flock), tekstilgarn (textile yarn), tekstilindustri (textile industry), tekstilvaev (textile gauze), tekstilområde (textile area), tekstilplante (textile plant), tekstilplanter (textile crop), tæppe med stingfæstnet luv (stitched-on pile by needle, stitched-on pile carpet, textile floor covering with stitched-on pile), fiberdug (geotextiles, textile fabrics), flok (band, drove, flock, herd, integral herd, textile flock), geotekstiler (geotextiles, textile fabrics), Initiativet til modernisering af tekstil-og beklædningsindustrien i Portugal (Initiative concerning the modernization of the Portuguese textile and clothing industry), moquette (moquette, pile carpet, textile floor covering with pile), PVC-beklaedning (PVC surfaced textile covering), PVC-beklaedt stof (PVC surfaced textile covering), Specifikt program til modernisering af tekstil- og beklædningsindustrien i Portugal (Specific programme for the modernisation of the Portuguese textile and clothing industry), spindplante (textile plant), blandet tekstilmateriale (mixed textile), Udvalg for tilpasning af direktiver til den tekniske Udvikling-Analysemetoder inden for tekstilsektoren (Committee for the Adaption to Technical Progress of the Directives on Methods of Textile Analysis), specifikt program til modernisering af tekstil-og beklaedingssektoren (specific programme for the modernization of the Portuguese textile and clothing industry). (various references)

Dutch

weefsel (cloth, fabric, material). (various references)

Esperanto

tekstilaĵoj, teksaĵo (fabric). (various references)

Farsi 

پارچه بافته , پارچه (Cloth, Fabric, Lot, Piece, Stuff). (various references)

Finnish

tekstiili, kudonnainen. (various references)

French

textile. (various references)

German

Textil-, Gewebe (cloth, fabric, film, material, stuff, texture, textures, tissue, tissues, weave, web, webs). (various references)

Greek 

ύφασμα (Cheviot, cloth, fabric, material, percale, stuff, web, weft), υφαντόσ (woven), υφαντό (woven material), υφαντικόσ (weaving), υφαντουργικό προϊόν. (various references)

Hebrew 

אריג (cloth, fabric, material, tissue, twill, web), ארג (cloth, fabric, texture), בד (cloth, fabric, material), טקסטיל, טריקו (tricot). (various references)

Hungarian

textil. (various references)

Indonesian

tekstil, kain (cloth, material, sarong, stuff). (various references)

Italian

tessile. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

繊維　 (fiber, fibre), 繊維 (fiber, fibre), 織物　 (fabric), 織物 (fabric), テーベ物語 (beefsteak, project, tail, tail end, tail fin, tail lamp, tailcoat, taillight, tailor, tailored, tailored suit, tailor-made, take, taste, Taylor system, tea, teeing ground, teenage, teen-age, teenager, teen-ager, Tegafur, tequila, Texas, Texas hit, Texas leaguer, text, text book, text file, textbook, texture, Thebais, theme, Theme campaign, Theme music, theme park, Theme promotion, Theme song, tilapia, timpani, tissue, tissue paper, tissues, topic, TROFF, tympany, typical, tyranny). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おりもの (afterbirth, fabric, menstruation), テキスタイル , せんい (fiber, fibre, fighting spirit, ship's doctor, transition, usurpation of a throne). (various references)

Korean 

직물 (Fabric, tissue, Weave). (various references)

Manx

feeit (plaited, woven). (various references)

Papiamen

tela (fabric). (various references)

Pig Latin

extiletay.(various references)

Portuguese

tecido (cloth, contexture, diaper, material, pepper-and-salt, tissue, web, woof), têxtil. (various references)

Romanian

textilist, textil, stofã (cloth, fabric, material, stuff, suiting, texture, tissue), ţesãturã (contexture, darn, fabric, material, netting, stuff, texture, tissue, web, weft). (various references)

Russian 

ткань текстильный, текстильный, текстиль (textiles). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

tkanina (cloth, fabric, material, stuff, web), tekstilan, tekstil, za tkanje. (various references)

Spanish

textil. (various references)

Swedish

vävnad (contexture, fabric, tissue). (various references)

Thai

สิ่งทอ (organdie, organdy, suiting), วัตถุดิบที่นำมาทำสิ่งทอ. (various references)

Turkish

tekstil (textiles), dokunmuş kumaş, dokuma (contexture, fabric, knitted, piece goods, soft goods, textiles, weave, weaving, web, webbing, woof, woven). (various references)

Ukrainian

тканина (cloth, fabric, tissue, web, webbing, weft, woof), текстильний, текстиль, прядильний (spinning). (various references)

Vietnamese 

hàng dệt, gai (sliver, spicule), dệt (weave, wove, woven), có sợi dệt được. (various references)

tela, textile, textilis, textura, textus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "textile": textiles. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Textile" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sextile, Taxila, tertile, texile, texti, textil, textill, textille, texttile, titile. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: elite, exile, ixtle, telex, title.

-3 letters: exit, ilex, leet, lite, teel, tele, text, tile, tilt.

-4 letters: eel, lee, lei, let, lex, lie, lit, tee, tel, tet, tie, til.

-5 letters: el, et, ex, it, li, ti, xi.

+1 letter: textiles.

+4 letters: existential, externality, extralities.

+5 letters: exploitative, extractively, extraditable, intertextual, letterboxing, sextuplicate.