Pronunciations (2)
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/sɪlk/
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sɪlk
Noun
A fine fiber excreted by the silkworm or other arthropod (such as a spider).
Usage- Uncountable
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We harvested a load of silk from the silkworm farm.
A thread or yarn made from silk fibers.
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
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This is sewn from silk.
A fine, soft cloth woven from silk yarn or thread.
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
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I'll buy a couple yards of silk.
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It was flood-tide along Fifth Avenue; motor, brougham, and victoria swept by on the glittering current; pretty women glanced out from limousine and tonneau; young men of his own type, silk-hatted, frock-coated, the crooks of their walking sticks tucked up under their left arms, passed on the Park side.
A fine, soft cloth woven from silk yarn or thread. A pair of long silk sheets suspended in the air on which a performer performs tricks.
Usage- Countable
- in-plural
- Uncountable
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She's a master with the silks.
A fine, soft cloth woven from silk yarn or thread. A parachute.
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
An article of clothing made from silk cloth.
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- Uncountable
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He's wearing his silk.
An article of clothing made from silk cloth. The garments worn by a jockey displaying the colors of the horse's owner.
Usage- Countable
- plural-normally
- Uncountable
An article of clothing made from silk cloth. The gown worn by a Senior (i.e., Queen's/King's) Counsel.
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- Uncountable
An article of clothing made from silk cloth. The gown worn by a Senior (i.e., Queen's/King's) Counsel. A Queen's Counsel, King's Counsel or Senior Counsel.
Usage- Colloquial
- Countable
- Figurative
- metonymically
- Uncountable
Anything which resembles silk, such as the filiform styles of the female flower of maize or the seed covering of bombaxes.
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Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety. She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.
Verb
To develop silk.
Usage- Intransitive
- of corn
To remove the silk from (corn).
Usage- Transitive
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While we shucked and silked the corn, we talked, sang old nursery rhymes […]
Noun
a fabric made from the fine threads produced by certain insect larvae
animal fibers produced by silkworms and other larvae that spin cocoons and by most spiders
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