English Dictionary

cotton

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈkɒt.n̩/

動詞

他動詞

To supply with a cotton wick. / To fill with a wad of cotton. / (horticulture) To wrap with a protective layer of cotton fabric. / To cover walls with fabric.

日本語の意味

綿芯を備える、供給する / 綿の塊を充填する / (園芸) 保護のために綿布で包む / 壁を布で覆う

Please cotton the oil lamp before the ceremony.

式の前に油灯に綿芯を入れてください。

意味（1）

To supply with a cotton wick.

Supposing a frame, or set of moulds, as represented at B, to have wicks carried through each mould, or regularly cottoned, and each wick to be held accurately in the centre of the mould by means of the series of nippers shown at fig. 8, the moulds are first taken to the position shown at B 1, figs. 2, 3, and 4, where they are supported in a perpendicular position on the small straight edges or railway d, d, as seen at fig. 3.

意味（2）

To fill with a wad of cotton.

First comes bottling, which is done both by machine and by hand. This is followed by cottoning and capping.

意味（3）

(horticulture) To wrap with a protective layer of cotton fabric.

When a tree is to be cottoned the ends from the cops are brought together and tied in a rough knot, which is hitched to a twig. Then, with the tube held upright, the operator walks round the tree as many times as may be necessary to cover it with lines of cotton, raising the metal tube about three feet after each round.

意味（4）

To cover walls with fabric.

The rooms downstairs were cottoned, the doors re-hung, and a counter put in the record office.

意味（5）

(tar and cotton) To cover with cotton bolls over a layer of tar (analogous to tar and feather )

Tar and cotton him,said a student from the college, more facetiously, perhaps, more mercifully inclined. Think, fellows, what a pretty bird he will be, with cotton for feathers ; — so downy."

意味（6）

To raise a nap, providing with a soft, cottony texture.

The finishing operations consisted of shearing the nap from the cloth, and frizzing, or cottoning, the surface, by pressing with hot irons.

意味（7）

To develop a porous, cottony texture.

At this moment he saw the plate cottoning, as he expressed it, to his young friend, Charles Freeland, who sat in the pew at his right. He watched to see what the young merchant would give ; and to his amazement, he saw the young man put in a fifty dollar note!

意味（8）

To give the appearance of being dotted with cotton balls.

A fair piece ahead, in answering signal cottoned the sky in rhythmic puffs.

意味（9）

To enshroud with a layer of whiteness.

Fog cottoned the steep, wooded slopes on each side of the lake, and the air was chill and penetrating.

意味（10）

To protect from harsh stimuli, coddle, or muffle.

Jeanne's house, like Usher's, is a void of great silence and immobility and the somnambulistic gardens surrounding her house like Usher's tarn cottoned the sound from the world.

意味（11）

To rub or burnish with cotton.

To oppress one's own workmen, and provide for the workmen of a neighbor — to skin those in charge of one's own interests while cottoning and oiling the residuary product of another's skinnery — that is not very good benevolence, nor very good sense, but it serves in place of both.

cottons （ present singular third-person ）

cottoning （ participle present ）

cottoned （ participle past ）

cottoned （ past ）