| 单词 | thrown singles |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthrown singles thrown singles n. (with plural agreement) a thread of thrown silk; spec. one consisting of two or more dumb singles (dumb singles n. at dumb adj. and n. Compounds 2) twisted together. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > thread or yarn > [noun] > silk > of specific composition organzine1601 thrown singles1806 single1831 1806 Morning Post 5 Mar. The remaining stock of silks..containing about 170lb of clean drawn thrown Singles. 1843 G. Dodd in Penny Mag. Apr. 164/2 Another manufactured variety, called thrown singles, is silk which has been wound, cleaned, and thrown, and is then used in the weaving of ribbons and common silks. 1876 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. (new ed.) III. 2564/2 Silk filaments are twisted to form singles. Several of these are combined and twisted together (doubling) forming dumb singles. A number of the latter are associated and twisted together (throwing), forming thrown singles. 1900 A. Y. Ali Monogr. Silk Fabrics iii. 37 Organzine is the combination of two or more ‘dumb singles’ or ‘thrown singles’, which are first simply doubled, and then retwisted on each other in an opposite direction to that of the twist of the ‘singles’. 2007 F. T. Koe Fabric for Designed Interior 28/1 Thrown singles are individual filaments twisted in one direction... Thrown singles are used to create sheer cloth. < as lemmas |
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