cotton
US: /ˈkɑtən/, /ˈkɔtən/
UK: /kˈɒtən/
UK: /kˈɒtən/
English Vietnamese dictionary
cotton /'kɔtn/
- danh từ
- bông
- a bale of cotton: kiệu bông
- cây bông
- chỉ, sợi
- vải bông
- bông
- nội động từ
- hoà hợp, ăn ý
- to cotton together: ăn ý với nhau
- to cotton with each other: hoà hợp với nhau, ăn ý với nhau
- yêu, quyến luyến, ý hợp tâm đầu
- to cotton on to somebody
- bắt đầu thích ai; kết thân với ai
- to cotton on
- (từ lóng) hiểu
- to cotton up to
- làm thân, ngỏ ý trước
- gắn bó với ai
- hoà hợp, ăn ý
Advanced English dictionary
noun, verb
+ noun
[U]
1 a plant grown in warm countries for the soft white hairs around its seeds that are used to make fabric and thread: cotton fields / plants + bales of cotton
2 the fabric made from the cotton plant: The sheets are 100% pure cotton. + a cotton shirt / skirt + printed cotton fabric + the cotton industry + a cotton mill
3 (especially BrE) thread that is used for sewing: sewing cotton + a cotton reel
4 (AmE) = COTTON WOOL: Use a cotton ball to apply the lotion.
verb
Phrasal Verbs: cotton on (to sth) (informal) to begin to understand or realize sth without being told: I suddenly cottoned on to what he was doing.
cotton (up) to sb/sth (AmE, informal) to make an attempt to be friendly to sb
Collocation dictionary
ADJ.
pure
a pure cotton T-shirt
| light, thin
shivering in her thin cotton nightdress
| fine | rough | raw | printed | mercerized | sewing
QUANT.
reel
(= pf cotton thread)
| bale, bolt
(= both of fabric)
VERB + COTTON
grow | pick
COTTON + NOUN
thread | bud, wool | field, plantation | industry, manufacturing | mill | manufacturer | reel
Concise English dictionary
cottons|cottoned|cottoning'kɒtn
noun
+soft silky fibers from cotton plants in their raw state
+fabric woven from cotton fibers
+erect bushy mallow plant or small tree bearing bolls containing seeds with many long hairy fibers
+thread made of cotton fibers
verb
+take a liking to
