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tex·tile

[teks-tahyl, -til] Pronunciation Key

–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 (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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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

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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Textile

Tex"tile\, n. That which is, or may be, woven; a fabric made by weaving. --Bacon.

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