Word Meanings - GINGHAM - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A kind of cotton or linen cloth, usually in stripes or checks, the yarn of which is dyed before it is woven; -- distinguished from printed cotton or prints.
Related words: (words related to GINGHAM)
- PRINTLESS
Making no imprint. Milton. - COTTONY
1. Covered with hairs or pubescence, like cotton; downy; nappy; woolly. 2. Of or pertaining to cotton; resembling cotton in appearance or character; soft, like cotton. - CLOTHESLINE
A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry. - PRINTA-BLE
Worthy to be published. - BEFORETIME
Formerly; aforetime. dwelt in their tents, as beforetime. 2 Kings xiii. 5. - WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - COTTONADE
A somewhat stoun and thick fabric of cotton. - LINENER
A dealer in linen; a linen draper. - WOVEN
p. p. of Weave. Woven paper, or Wove paper, writing paper having an even, uniform surface, without watermarks. - PRINTING IN
A process by which cloud effects or other features not in the original negative are introduced into a photograph. Portions, such as the sky, are covered while printing and the blank space thus reserved is filled in by printing from another negative. - CLOTHESHORSE
A frame to hang clothes on. - WHICH
the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who. - COTTON BATTING
Cotton prepared in sheets or rolls for quilting, upholstering, and similar purposes. - DISTINGUISHABLE
1. Capable of being distinguished; separable; divisible; discernible; capable of recognition; as, a tree at a distance is distinguishable from a shrub. A simple idea being in itself uncompounded . . . is not distinguishable into different ideas. - DISTINGUISH
1. To make distinctions; to perceive the difference; to exercise discrimination; -- with between; as, a judge distinguishes between cases apparently similar, but differing in principle. 2. To become distinguished or distinctive; to make one's self - DISTINGUISHMENT
Observation of difference; distinction. Graunt. - CLOTHIER
1. One who makes cloths; one who dresses or fulls cloth. Hayward. 2. One who sells cloth or clothes, or who makes and sells clothes. - DISTINGUISHABLY
So as to be distinguished. - DISTINGUISHING
Constituting difference, or distinction from everything else; distinctive; peculiar; characteristic. The distinguishing doctrines of our holy religion. Locke. Distinguishing pennant , a special pennant by which any particular vessel in a fleet - COTTONWOOD
An American tree of the genus Populus or polar, having the seeds covered with abundant cottonlike hairs; esp., the P. monilifera and P. angustifolia of the Western United States. - CONTRADISTINGUISH
To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities. These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. Locke. - SAILCLOTH
Duck or canvas used in making sails. - INDISTINGUISHABLE
Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct; hence, not capable of being perceived or known; as, in the distance the flagship was indisguishable; the two copies were indisguishable in form - BEDCLOTHES
Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. Shak. - HEARSECLOTH
A cloth for covering a coffin when on a bier; a pall. Bp. Sanderson. - IMPRINT
to imprint, fr. L. imprimere to impres, imprint. See 1st In-, Print, 1. To impress; to mark by pressure; to indent; to stamp. And sees his num'rous herds imprint her sands. Prior. 2. To stamp or mark, as letters on paper, by means of type, plates, - BREECHCLOTH
A cloth worn around the breech. - SPRINT
To run very rapidly; to run at full speed. A runner should be able to sprint the whole way. Encyc. Brit. (more info) Etym: - THEREBEFORE; THEREBIFORN
Before that time; beforehand. Many a winter therebiforn. Chaucer. - NECKCLOTH
A piece of any fabric worn around the neck. - BROADCLOTH
A fine smooth-faced woolen cloth for men's garments, usually of double width ; -- so called in distinction from woolens three quarters of a yard wide. - UNCLOTHED
Divested or stripped of clothing. Byron. 2. Etym: (more info) 1. Etym: - COMPRINT
To print surreptitiously a work belonging to another. E. Phillips. (more info) 1. To print together. - CARBORUNDUM CLOTH; CARBORUNDUM PAPER
Cloth or paper covered with powdered carborundum. - INDISTINGUISHING
Making no difference; indiscriminative; impartial; as, indistinguishing liberalities. Johnson. - SADDLECLOTH
A cloth under a saddle, and extending out behind; a housing.