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{
"term": "cloth",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "material made by weaving or knitting cotton, wool, silk, etc.",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "woollen/cotton/linen cloth"
},
{
"text": "a **piece of cloth**"
},
{
"text": "His bandages had been made from strips of cloth."
},
{
"text": "the cloth industry/trade"
},
{
"text": "a cloth bag"
},
{
"text": "a jacket made from woollen cloth"
},
{
"text": "She works in the cloth trade."
},
{
"text": "They used to export cotton cloth."
}
],
"topics": ["Clothes and Fashion"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["coarse", "fine", "woven"],
"… of cloth": ["bale", "bolt", "length"],
"verb + cloth": ["make", "produce", "weave"],
"cloth + noun": ["industry", "manufacture", "merchant"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "a piece of cloth, often used for a special purpose, especially cleaning things or covering a table",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "Wipe the surface with a damp cloth."
},
{
"text": "Place the dough in a bowl and cover with a clean cloth."
},
{
"text": "He gently cleaned her face with a wet cloth."
},
{
"text": "Wipe the table with a damp cloth."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["soft", "damp", "wet"],
"verb + cloth": ["dampen", "dip in something", "moisten"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "used to refer to Christian priests as a group",
"labels": "(literary)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "a man of the cloth"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to do only what you have enough money to do and no more",
"labels": "(saying)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "We wanted to buy a bigger house than this but it was a case of cutting our coat according to our cloth."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/klɒθ/",
"audio": "cl/cloth/cloth__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/klɒθs/",
"audio": "cl/cloth/cloths__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/klɔːθ/",
"audio": "cl/cloth/cloth__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/klɔːðz/",
"audio": "cl/cloth/cloths__us_1_rr.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Old English clāth, related to Dutch kleed and German Kleid, of unknown ultimate origin."
}