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–noun

1.	any cloth or goods produced by weaving, knitting, or felting.

2.	a material, as a fiber or yarn, used in or suitable for weaving: Glass can be used as a textile.

–adjective

3.	woven or capable of being woven: textile fabrics.

4.	of or pertaining to weaving.

5.	of or pertaining to textiles or the production of textiles: the textile industry.

[Origin: 1520–30; < L textilis woven, textile (n. use of neut.) woven fabric, equiv. to text(us), ptp. of texere to weave + -ilis, -ile -ile

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tex·tile Audio Help (těks'tīl', -təl) Pronunciation Key
n.

A cloth, especially one manufactured by weaving or knitting; a fabric.
Fiber or yarn for weaving or knitting into cloth.

[Latin, from neuter of textilis, woven, from textus, past participle of texere, to weave; see text.]

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
textile

1626, from L. textilis "woven, fabric, cloth," noun use of textilis "woven," from texere "to weave," from PIE base *tek- "to make" (see texture).

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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; "the fabric in the curtains was light and semitransparent"; "woven cloth originated in Mesopotamia around 5000 BC"; "she measured off enough material for a dress" [syn: fabric]

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textile [ˈtekstail] noun

a cloth or fabric made by weaving
Example: woollen textiles; (also adjective) the textile industry

Arabic:	نَسيج، قِماش
Chinese (Simplified):	纺织品（的）
Chinese (Traditional):	紡織品(的)
Czech:	tkanina; textilní
Danish:	tekstil; tekstil-
Dutch:	textiel
Estonian:	kangas, tekstiili-
Finnish:	tekstiili
French:	textile
German:	die Textilien(pl.); Textil-…
Greek:	υφαντό, κλωστοϋφαντουργικός
Hungarian:	szövet, textil
Icelandic:	ofið efni, vefnaður, textíll
Indonesian:	tekstil
Italian:	tessile

Japanese:	織物
Korean:	직물; 천
Latvian:	tekstilrūpniecība
Lithuanian:	audinys, tekstilė
Norwegian:	tekstil(-)
Polish:	tkanina
Portuguese (Brazil):	têxtil
Portuguese (Portugal):	têxtil
Romanian:	material textil
Russian:	текстиль
Slovak:	tkanina; textília
Slovenian:	tekstil; tekstilen
Spanish:	textil
Swedish:	textil
Turkish:	dokuma, tekstil

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Textile

Man"tle\, n. [OE. mantel, OF. mantel, F. manteau, fr. L. mantellum, mantelum, a cloth, napkin, cloak, mantle (cf. mantele, mantile, towel, napkin); prob. from manus hand + the root of tela cloth. See Manual, Textile, and cf. Mandil, Mantel, Mantilla.]

1. A loose garment to be worn over other garments; an enveloping robe; a cloak. Hence, figuratively, a covering or concealing envelope.

[The] children are clothed with mantles of satin. --Bacon.

The green mantle of the standing pool. --Shak.

Now Nature hangs her mantle green On every blooming tree. --Burns.

2. (Her.) Same as Mantling.

3. (Zo["o]l.) (a) The external fold, or folds, of the soft, exterior membrane of the body of a mollusk. It usually forms a cavity inclosing the gills. See Illusts. of Buccinum, and Byssus. (b) Any free, outer membrane. (c) The back of a bird together with the folded wings.

4. (Arch.) A mantel. See Mantel.

5. The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth. --Raymond.

6. (Hydraulic Engin.) A penstock for a water wheel.

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Textile

Tex"tile\, a. [L. textilis, fr. texere to weave: cf. F. textile. See Text.] Pertaining to weaving or to woven fabrics; as, textile arts; woven, capable of being woven; formed by weaving; as, textile fabrics.

Textile cone (Zo["o]l.), a beautiful cone shell (Conus textilis) in which the colors are arranged so that they resemble certain kinds of cloth.

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