textiletex‧tile /ˈtekstaɪl/ ●●○ noun [countable] 
Their main exports are textiles, especially silk and cotton.textile industry/design/manufacture etc textile design and technology a textile mill2textiles [plural] the industry involved in making cloth
WORD ORIGINtextile
Origin:
1600-1700 Latin textilis ‘woven’, from texere; ➔ TEXTEXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- But tutors were so impressed with the two girls' work in textiles that they made them unconditional offers.
- Expansion plans and improved profits at textile group Albion helped it to a 24p rise to 75p.
- Furniture, textiles and floor coverings date from the late 1960s or earlier.
- Had Guy Sterne chosen furnishings and textiles for this villa himself?
- She was naked, and inanimate textiles lapped her skin.
- The move to the country outside had begun, and so had Aarau's export trade, at that time mostly textiles.
Longman Language Activatormaterial for making clothes, curtains etc
a material woven from threads, which is used for making clothes or curtains, covering furniture etc: · She was wearing a long black dress made of some silky material.· Some materials are easier to dye than others.dress/curtain material: · Could I have six metres of that curtain material?
woven material: · I want to buy some fabric to make a skirt.· Man-made fabrics such as polyester are easy to wash and iron.· Rayon is used extensively to make furnishing fabrics.
woven material, especially made from natural substances such as cotton and wool: · The main trade was the production of woollen cloth.· She ran her eye over the rolls of brightly-coloured cloth displayed on the stall.
formal woven material - use this especially to talk about the business of producing and selling material: · Textiles are one of Mexico's main exports.· Modern textiles can look too bright in an old building.textile industry: · The textile industry is booming, with profits up 15% on last year.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY textile design and technology a textile millCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
1any type of woven cloth that is made in large quantities – used especially by people in the business of making clothes etc: textile design and technology a textile mill· There is a large car factory where many of the local people work.
· The town was very dependant on the car industry.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· Generally, all woollen textiles are of felt or employ plain weave.· But our main story lies with the woollen textiles.· For towns of medium size a big stake in the woollen textile industry was the surest foundation of prosperity.· Yorkshire kept to woollen textiles with a major market in Leeds.
NOUN· In the first half 170 textile companies recorded problems compared with 112 in the whole of 1988.
· Right: the Op Art movement heavily influenced textile design.· Crafts on display include ceramics, fly-tying, jewellery making, textile design, etc.· Leaving school, he had studied textile design and that last summer of all he was already a first-year student.
· Kier wanted to be a go-go dancer, then a psychologist, then a textile designer.· It aims to provide an informed foundation for the future professional development of fashion and textile designers.
· As the textile factories closed, what were we meant to do?· At the age of seven Mayall began work in a series of textile factories.· The institution occupies three floors of a former textile factory which is lit by windows on both sides.
· Nylon made a great impact on the textile industry when it was first discovered.· In fact, the textile industry more than any other made possible relatively large-scale production in a still traditional artisan world.· It is most important to our textile industry that we reach a satisfactory conclusion.· The valleys began to fill rapidly with people who became skilled in the textile industry.· The war had stimulated the chemical industry and the related synthetic textile industries.· In both metallurgical and textile industries almost half the factory workers were employed in plants of over 1,000 workers.· Now the smaller, modern textile industry is just one among many new industries in these same towns.
· Many engineers in Leeds and the textile towns have used these advantages to make textile machinery, much of which is exported.· In 1811 the Luddites rioted and destroyed the textile machinery which they saw as a direct threat to their jobs.
· Contests over perquisites were not confined to textile manufacture.· Hand-loom weavers in the various textile manufactures were the most ubiquitous of manufacturing workers.· In textile manufacture women were first and foremost the spinners.· In 1759 Joseph Massie estimated that 228,000 families were supported by metal, wood and textile manufactures.
· What over the years have been the main disadvantages for textile manufacturers?
· A textile mill developed natural fibres for special bedding to promote Kim's longevity.· It's a growing town - because of the textile mills -but not growing in virtue, that I can tell you.· She survived by working in a textile mill and receiving supplementary welfare.· We're stuck for some ideas about the workings of a textile mill in the story.· From the 1760s to the 1830s, steam engines, textile mills, and the Enlightenment produced the Industrial Revolution.· There, 50 or so textile mills produce what is widely acknowledged to be the finest wool cloth in the world.· Here we illustrated numerous dramatic conversions of warehouses and textile mills whose open-plan layouts made them adaptable for virtually any purpose.
· From that moment the lock-out, or standstill, in the textile trade began.· Those features are all welcome to the textile trade.· Many of the Champagne houses established at this time were born as a direct result of the Reims textile trade.· The historic Longfords mill is described by historians as an important relic of the textile trade.· Employing hundreds of people, it was at the centre of the textile trade in the Stroud valleys.
· The unrest began on May 5 as textile workers went on strike in support of a pay demand.· Frustrated by his own failures, the on-again, off-again textile worker regularly beats her.· Commercial people lagged behind, but they were ahead of the textile workers, the first working-class group to show strong limitation.· The opposition coalition criticized the tax-free zones as exploiting women textile workers and as creating dependence on foreign countries.· In 1911 the fertility census recorded that textile workers actually married later.· Edinburgh had practically no textile workers, men or women; but as we have seen it had a great many domestic servants.
VERB· Her nan had lost her hearing working in the textile m ills.· They worked fourteen-hour days in textile sweatshops.· She survived by working in a textile mill and receiving supplementary welfare.
Their main exports are textiles, especially silk and cotton.textile industry/design/manufacture etc textile design and technology a textile mill2textiles [plural] the industry involved in making cloth