English words for 'Alternative form of napkining.'
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noun
- A serviette; a (usually rectangular) piece of cloth or paper used at the table for wiping the mouth and hands for cleanliness while eating.
- a small piece of table linen that is used to wipe the mouth and to cover the lap in order to protect clothing
- (British, South Africa) A nappy (UK), a diaper (American).
- A small scarf worn on the head by Christian women (chiefly Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox) when entering a church, as a token of modesty.
- garment consisting of a folded cloth drawn up between the legs and fastened at the waist; worn by infants to catch excrement
noun
- Specifically, a tablecloth, especially as spread before a meal or removed afterwards.
- (figurative) Substance or essence; the whole of something complex.
- (figurative) Appearance; seeming.
- (countable, uncountable) A fabric, usually made of woven, knitted, or felted fibres or filaments, such as used in dressing, decorating, cleaning or other practical use. Sometimes, woven fabric specifically.
- A form of attire that represents a particular profession or status.
- (idiomatic, with definite article) The priesthood.
- (countable) A piece of cloth used for a particular purpose.
- artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers
verb
noun
- A sudden movement or gesture of shrinking away.
- A reel used in dyeing, steeping, or washing cloth; a winch. It is placed over the division wall between two wince pits so as to allow the cloth to descend into either compartment at will.
- the facial expression of sudden pain
- a reflex response to sudden pain
noun
- A kind of bur used in dressing cloth; a teasel.
- The loose hairs at the end of a braid.
- Alternative form of tassell.
- A ball-shaped bunch of plaited or otherwise entangled threads from which at one end protrudes a cord on which the ball is hung, and which may have loose, dangling threads at the other end (often used as decoration along the bottom of garments, curtains or other hangings).
- A narrow silk ribbon, or similar, sewn to a book to be put between the pages.
- A thin plate of gold on the back of a bishop's gloves.
- (botany) The panicle on a male plant of maize, which consists of loose threads with anthers on them.
- (architecture) A piece of board that is laid upon a wall as a sort of plate, to give a level surface to the ends of floor timbers.
- adornment consisting of a bunch of cords fastened at one end
verb
noun
- Any contrivance intended as a substitute for teasels in dressing cloth.
- The dried fruiting head of the fuller's teasel, Dipsacus sativa, used for teasing or carding cloth.
- Any of several plants of the genus Dipsacus.
- any of several herbs of the genus Dipsacus native to the Old World having flower heads surrounded by spiny bracts
noun
- A soft piece of cloth or cloth-like material used for wiping.
- A kind of film transition where one shot replaces another by travelling from one side of the frame to another or with a special shape.
- The act of wiping something.
- A lapwing, especially a northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus).
- (roleplaying games, video games) An instance of all members of a party dying in a single campaign, event, or battle; a wipeout.
- the act of rubbing or wiping
verb
- (transitive, computing) To erase.
- (figurative) To remove an expression from one's face.
- (intransitive, roleplaying games, video games) To have all members of a party die in a single campaign, event, or battle; to be wiped out.
- (transitive) To move an object over, maintaining contact, with the intention of removing some substance from the surface. (Compare rub.)
- (transitive, plumbing) To make (a joint, as between pieces of lead pipe), by surrounding the junction with a mass of solder, applied in a plastic condition by means of a rag with which the solder is shaped by rubbing.
- (ambitransitive) To clean (the anus, buttocks and/or genitals) after defecation or urination.
- (transitive) To smear (a substance) with this kind of motion.
- (transitive) To deperm (a ship).
- (video editing) To perform a transition in which one scene or slide is replaced with another over time along a horizontal axis, as if one scene or slide is a layer being slid off the other.
- (transitive) To remove by rubbing; to rub off; to obliterate; usually followed by away, off, or out.
- rub with a circular motion
noun
noun
- Something, such as a towel, that is used for wiping.
- (computing) A program or process that erases data.
- Something, such as a windscreen wiper, that is designed for wiping.
- (nautical) A junior role in the engine room of a ship, someone who wipes down machinery and generally keeps it clean.
- A movable electric contact in some devices.
- A hybrid fish variety artificially bred from eggs of striped bass (Morone saxatilis) fertilized with white bass (Morone chrysops) sperm, or the opposite combination.
- Someone who wipes.
- a mechanical device that cleans the windshield
- contact consisting of a conducting arm that rotates over a series of fixed contacts and comes to rest on an outlet
- a worker who wipes
verb
noun
- A wooden rod, as one to make short pins from.
- (construction) A piece of wood or similar material fitted into a surface not suitable for fastening so that other pieces may be fastened to it.
- A pin, or block, of wood or metal, fitting into holes in the abutting portions of two pieces, and being partly in one piece and partly in the other, to keep them in their proper relative position.
- a fastener that is inserted into holes in two adjacent pieces and holds them together
verb
noun
- The cap of a cannon; a piece of lead laid over the vent to keep the priming dry.
- The loading, parking or roadway area immediately beside a railway station or marine terminal.
- A removable cover for the passengers' feet and legs in an open horse carriage.
- The spreading end of a driveway.
- An article of clothing worn over the front of the torso and/or legs for protection from spills; also historically worn by Freemasons and as part of women's fashion.
- (pinball) A large decal toward the bottom of a pinball table.
- The sides of a tree's canopy.
- The portion of a stage extending towards the audience beyond the proscenium arch in a theatre.
- (architecture) A raised panel below a window or wall monument or tablet.
- The short cassock ordinarily worn by English bishops.
- (aviation) The paved area of an airport, especially the area where aircraft park away from a terminal.
- The paved area below the yellow line on a racetrack.
- the part of a modern theater stage between the curtain and the orchestra (i.e., in front of the curtain)
- a paved surface where aircraft stand while not being used
- (golf) the part of the fairway leading onto the green
- a garment of cloth or leather or plastic that is tied about the waist and worn to protect your clothing
noun
verb
verb
adj
noun
- (cycling) A padded insert which protects the groin from the bicycle saddle.
- A short-horned goat antelope native to mountainous terrain in southern Europe; Rupicapra rupicapra.
- The traditional colour of chamois leather.
- An absorbent cloth used for cleaning and polishing, formerly made of chamois leather.
- Ellipsis of chamois leather (“soft pliable leather originally made from the skin of chamois (nowadays the hides of deer, sheep, and other species of goat are alternatively used)”).
- a soft suede leather formerly from the skin of the chamois antelope but now from sheepskin
- hoofed mammal of mountains of Eurasia having upright horns with backward-hooked tips
noun
- A fine material made by scraping cotton or linen cloth; used for dressing wounds.
- Clinging fuzzy fluff that clings to fabric or accumulates in one's pockets or navel etc.
- The fibrous coat of thick hairs covering the seeds of the cotton plant.
- Raw cotton ready for baling.
- cotton or linen fabric with the nap raised on one side; used to dress wounds
- fine ravellings of cotton or linen fibers
verb
noun
noun
- A serviette; a (usually rectangular) piece of cloth or paper used at the table for wiping the mouth and hands for cleanliness while eating.
- a small piece of table linen that is used to wipe the mouth and to cover the lap in order to protect clothing
- (British, South Africa) A nappy (UK), a diaper (American).
- A small scarf worn on the head by Christian women (chiefly Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox) when entering a church, as a token of modesty.
- garment consisting of a folded cloth drawn up between the legs and fastened at the waist; worn by infants to catch excrement
noun
- Specifically, a tablecloth, especially as spread before a meal or removed afterwards.
- (figurative) Substance or essence; the whole of something complex.
- (figurative) Appearance; seeming.
- (countable, uncountable) A fabric, usually made of woven, knitted, or felted fibres or filaments, such as used in dressing, decorating, cleaning or other practical use. Sometimes, woven fabric specifically.
- A form of attire that represents a particular profession or status.
- (idiomatic, with definite article) The priesthood.
- (countable) A piece of cloth used for a particular purpose.
- artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers
noun
- A kind of bur used in dressing cloth; a teasel.
- The loose hairs at the end of a braid.
- Alternative form of tassell.
- A ball-shaped bunch of plaited or otherwise entangled threads from which at one end protrudes a cord on which the ball is hung, and which may have loose, dangling threads at the other end (often used as decoration along the bottom of garments, curtains or other hangings).
- A narrow silk ribbon, or similar, sewn to a book to be put between the pages.
- A thin plate of gold on the back of a bishop's gloves.
- (botany) The panicle on a male plant of maize, which consists of loose threads with anthers on them.
- (architecture) A piece of board that is laid upon a wall as a sort of plate, to give a level surface to the ends of floor timbers.
- adornment consisting of a bunch of cords fastened at one end
verb
noun
- Any contrivance intended as a substitute for teasels in dressing cloth.
- The dried fruiting head of the fuller's teasel, Dipsacus sativa, used for teasing or carding cloth.
- Any of several plants of the genus Dipsacus.
- any of several herbs of the genus Dipsacus native to the Old World having flower heads surrounded by spiny bracts
noun
- A soft piece of cloth or cloth-like material used for wiping.
- A kind of film transition where one shot replaces another by travelling from one side of the frame to another or with a special shape.
- The act of wiping something.
- A lapwing, especially a northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus).
- (roleplaying games, video games) An instance of all members of a party dying in a single campaign, event, or battle; a wipeout.
- the act of rubbing or wiping
verb
- (transitive, computing) To erase.
- (figurative) To remove an expression from one's face.
- (intransitive, roleplaying games, video games) To have all members of a party die in a single campaign, event, or battle; to be wiped out.
- (transitive) To move an object over, maintaining contact, with the intention of removing some substance from the surface. (Compare rub.)
- (transitive, plumbing) To make (a joint, as between pieces of lead pipe), by surrounding the junction with a mass of solder, applied in a plastic condition by means of a rag with which the solder is shaped by rubbing.
- (ambitransitive) To clean (the anus, buttocks and/or genitals) after defecation or urination.
- (transitive) To smear (a substance) with this kind of motion.
- (transitive) To deperm (a ship).
- (video editing) To perform a transition in which one scene or slide is replaced with another over time along a horizontal axis, as if one scene or slide is a layer being slid off the other.
- (transitive) To remove by rubbing; to rub off; to obliterate; usually followed by away, off, or out.
- rub with a circular motion
noun
noun
- Something, such as a towel, that is used for wiping.
- (computing) A program or process that erases data.
- Something, such as a windscreen wiper, that is designed for wiping.
- (nautical) A junior role in the engine room of a ship, someone who wipes down machinery and generally keeps it clean.
- A movable electric contact in some devices.
- A hybrid fish variety artificially bred from eggs of striped bass (Morone saxatilis) fertilized with white bass (Morone chrysops) sperm, or the opposite combination.
- Someone who wipes.
- a mechanical device that cleans the windshield
- contact consisting of a conducting arm that rotates over a series of fixed contacts and comes to rest on an outlet
- a worker who wipes
noun
verb
noun
- A fine material made by scraping cotton or linen cloth; used for dressing wounds.
- Clinging fuzzy fluff that clings to fabric or accumulates in one's pockets or navel etc.
- The fibrous coat of thick hairs covering the seeds of the cotton plant.
- Raw cotton ready for baling.
- cotton or linen fabric with the nap raised on one side; used to dress wounds
- fine ravellings of cotton or linen fibers
verb
noun
verb
noun
- A sudden movement or gesture of shrinking away.
- A reel used in dyeing, steeping, or washing cloth; a winch. It is placed over the division wall between two wince pits so as to allow the cloth to descend into either compartment at will.
- the facial expression of sudden pain
- a reflex response to sudden pain
verb
noun
- A wooden rod, as one to make short pins from.
- (construction) A piece of wood or similar material fitted into a surface not suitable for fastening so that other pieces may be fastened to it.
- A pin, or block, of wood or metal, fitting into holes in the abutting portions of two pieces, and being partly in one piece and partly in the other, to keep them in their proper relative position.
- a fastener that is inserted into holes in two adjacent pieces and holds them together
verb
noun
- The cap of a cannon; a piece of lead laid over the vent to keep the priming dry.
- The loading, parking or roadway area immediately beside a railway station or marine terminal.
- A removable cover for the passengers' feet and legs in an open horse carriage.
- The spreading end of a driveway.
- An article of clothing worn over the front of the torso and/or legs for protection from spills; also historically worn by Freemasons and as part of women's fashion.
- (pinball) A large decal toward the bottom of a pinball table.
- The sides of a tree's canopy.
- The portion of a stage extending towards the audience beyond the proscenium arch in a theatre.
- (architecture) A raised panel below a window or wall monument or tablet.
- The short cassock ordinarily worn by English bishops.
- (aviation) The paved area of an airport, especially the area where aircraft park away from a terminal.
- The paved area below the yellow line on a racetrack.
- the part of a modern theater stage between the curtain and the orchestra (i.e., in front of the curtain)
- a paved surface where aircraft stand while not being used
- (golf) the part of the fairway leading onto the green
- a garment of cloth or leather or plastic that is tied about the waist and worn to protect your clothing
verb
adj
noun
- (cycling) A padded insert which protects the groin from the bicycle saddle.
- A short-horned goat antelope native to mountainous terrain in southern Europe; Rupicapra rupicapra.
- The traditional colour of chamois leather.
- An absorbent cloth used for cleaning and polishing, formerly made of chamois leather.
- Ellipsis of chamois leather (“soft pliable leather originally made from the skin of chamois (nowadays the hides of deer, sheep, and other species of goat are alternatively used)”).
- a soft suede leather formerly from the skin of the chamois antelope but now from sheepskin
- hoofed mammal of mountains of Eurasia having upright horns with backward-hooked tips
noun
verb
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