strand of wool

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• strand — 01. Scientists can determine a person s sex, age, and race by examining a single [strand] of hair. 02. People with blonde hair have around 120,000 [strands] of hair, whereas redheads have about 80,000. 03. He kept three [strands] of his loved one …   Grammatical examples in English

• Wool —    This animal fiber is derived from the hair of sheep or lamb. Wool fiber dates back 10,000 years when early man in Central Asia discovered that the hair from animal skins, which were already being used to provide warmth, could be formed into… …   Historical Dictionary of the Fashion Industry

• strand — I noun 1) strands of wool Syn: thread, filament, fiber; length, ply 2) the various strands of the ecological movement Syn: element, component, factor, ingredient, aspect, feature …   Thesaurus of popular words

• SHA'ATNEZ — (Heb. שַׁעַטְנֵז; Gr. κίβδηλος, counterfeit ), cloth combining wool and linen. Leviticus 19:19 and Deuteronomy 22:11 prohibit the wearing of sha atnez, in the former passage explained as beged kilʾayim, cloth made from a mixture of two kinds of… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Business and Industry Review — ▪ 1999 Introduction Overview        Annual Average Rates of Growth of Manufacturing Output, 1980 97, Table Pattern of Output, 1994 97, Table Index Numbers of Production, Employment, and Productivity in Manufacturing Industries, Table (For Annual… …   Universalium

• textile — /teks tuyl, til/, n. 1. any cloth or goods produced by weaving, knitting, or felting. 2. a material, as a fiber or yarn, used in or suitable for weaving: Glass can be used as a textile. adj. 3. woven or capable of being woven: textile fabrics. 4 …   Universalium

• Units of textile measurement — Textile is measured in various units, such as: the denier and tex (linear mass density of fibres), super S (fineness of wool fiber), worst count, and yield (the inverse of denier and tex). Yarn is spun thread used for knitting, weaving, or sewing …   Wikipedia

• Textile manufacturing — is one of the oldest human industries. The oldest known textiles date back to about 5000 B.C. In order to make textiles, the first requirement is a source of fiber from which a yarn can be made, primarily by spinning. The yarn is processed by… …   Wikipedia

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• Spinning (textiles) — Spinning is an ancient textile art in which plant, animal or synthetic fibers are twisted together to form yarn (or thread, rope, or cable). For thousands of years, fiber was spun by hand using simple tools, the spindle and distaff. Only in the… …   Wikipedia

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