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单词 slub
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slub1

nounPlural slubs slʌbsləb
  • 1A lump or thick place in yarn or thread.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Silk doupioni is a type of silk fabric that is riddled with irregularly spaced slubs, which give it a certain charm.
    • I have no complaints with the yarn, except for the occasional gigantic slub or break that's been tied up.
    • Natural fiber color variation, slubs and knots are an intricate part of each textile design and are used to enhance the beauty and texture of each pattern.
    • After twenty years in New York she began to notice odd alterations in the texture of the city, ‘little slubs in the weave’, sightings here and there of foxes and coyotes and wild turkeys, even wild deer.
    • Donegal now describes the wool tweed that has colorful thick slubs woven into the fabric.
    • While bright color and multicolored nubs and slubs enlivened the tweeds, the houndstooth wovens were often found in black and white.
    1. 1.1mass noun Fabric woven from yarn or thread containing lumps or thick places.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The shirt range consists of solids in twills, poplins, structures, linens and checks, as well as slubs, dobbies and indigos in pleasing colours of the season.
      • I believe the texture in the fabric was called slub and they may be an acetate rayon blend.
adjectiveslʌbsləb
  • Denoting fabric having an irregular appearance caused by uneven thickness of the warp.

    slub silk
    Example sentencesExamples
    • These fabrics range from 7 1/2-ounce and 8-ounce ring shirtings to 11 1/2-ounce slub fabrics.
    • These fabrics had a linen weave with slub accents, and came in deep earthy colors as well as soft blues, greens, khakis and peach.

Derivatives

  • slubbed

  • adjective
    • She went back to the 1950s, with large geometric prints based on curtain and furnishing fabrics, heavy slubbed silk and shantung.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • We think its best looks for summer are its lightweight semi-formal coats in pink slubbed cotton or a khaki safari style - a good basis for dressing up or down.
      • ‘However, customers are starting to look at heavyweight slubbed fabrics such as our ‘Great Pretender,’ which is doing very well coco dyed and can be plain or coated,’ Bivin notes.
      • Doupioni is a plain-weave fabric with slubbed ribs.
      • Describing the collection of new products for 2001, the vice president of development and planning points to an array of textured slubbed fabrics.
      • The dummy is wearing a shirt - claret slubbed silk, wide collar, double cuffs.
      • New prints range from dramatic graphics to the ethnic Indian look of the firm's ‘Katmandu Collection,’ a line of slubbed cotton/linen featuring four patterns that are finely engraved to add dimension to the fabrics.

Origin

Early 19th century: of unknown origin.

Rhymes

blub, bub, chub, Chubb, club, cub, drub, dub, flub, grub, hub, nub, pub, rub, scrub, shrub, snub, stub, sub, tub

slub2

nounPlural slubs slʌbsləb
mass noun
  • Wool that has been slightly twisted in preparation for spinning.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • During winding a bar holds the slubbing down so that the spindle rotation causes the twisted yarn to be wound onto the cop.
    • The slubbing is guided in the clamping gap of the delivery rolls which are arranged downstream from the drafting system and at a distance therefrom.
    • The swagged curtains were beige slub silk, the sofas brown and cream, the walls aqua.
    • A machine which reduces slubbing to a finer thread or roving, making it more regular and even puts more twists in and winds it onto a smaller tube.
    • The fleece or slubbing thus is wound around the filaments while the latter are twisted with the fleece between them, about a common axis.
    • The rectangle bell shade is a reddish-brown textile with black edged trim and natural black slubbing.
verbslubbing, slubs, slubbed slʌbsləb
[with object]
  • Twist (wool) in preparation for spinning.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Spinning frames draw these slubbing or condensing out to the required fineness of yarn and insert twist to form the yarn.
    • The slubbing billy came into use by the 1790s and looked very similar to an early spinning jenny.
    • The slubbing machine took the raw wool and combed it into long ropes of yarn that could easily be spun in the spinning machines.
    • When the slubbing is attenuated during yarn manufacture, a very even blend of dyed and undyed fibre is produced and by this means, if black has been used, a grey yarn results.
    • All the advantage in technology the slubbing and roving process is climinated and the material in processed through only the passage of fly frames, viz. the canfed incer frames.
    • It removes empty cans from drawing and slubbing machines and places them in position for reuse at carding machines.

Origin

Late 18th century: of unknown origin.

 
 

slub1

nounsləbsləb
  • 1A lump or thick place in yarn or thread.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • While bright color and multicolored nubs and slubs enlivened the tweeds, the houndstooth wovens were often found in black and white.
    • Donegal now describes the wool tweed that has colorful thick slubs woven into the fabric.
    • After twenty years in New York she began to notice odd alterations in the texture of the city, ‘little slubs in the weave’, sightings here and there of foxes and coyotes and wild turkeys, even wild deer.
    • Silk doupioni is a type of silk fabric that is riddled with irregularly spaced slubs, which give it a certain charm.
    • I have no complaints with the yarn, except for the occasional gigantic slub or break that's been tied up.
    • Natural fiber color variation, slubs and knots are an intricate part of each textile design and are used to enhance the beauty and texture of each pattern.
    1. 1.1 Fabric woven from yarn or thread containing lumps or thick spots.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I believe the texture in the fabric was called slub and they may be an acetate rayon blend.
      • The shirt range consists of solids in twills, poplins, structures, linens and checks, as well as slubs, dobbies and indigos in pleasing colours of the season.
adjectivesləbsləb
  • attributive (of fabric) having an irregular appearance caused by uneven thickness of the warp.

    slub silk
    Example sentencesExamples
    • These fabrics had a linen weave with slub accents, and came in deep earthy colors as well as soft blues, greens, khakis and peach.
    • These fabrics range from 7 1/2-ounce and 8-ounce ring shirtings to 11 1/2-ounce slub fabrics.

Origin

Early 19th century: of unknown origin.

slub2

nounsləbsləb
  • Wool that has been slightly twisted in preparation for spinning.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • During winding a bar holds the slubbing down so that the spindle rotation causes the twisted yarn to be wound onto the cop.
    • The swagged curtains were beige slub silk, the sofas brown and cream, the walls aqua.
    • The fleece or slubbing thus is wound around the filaments while the latter are twisted with the fleece between them, about a common axis.
    • The rectangle bell shade is a reddish-brown textile with black edged trim and natural black slubbing.
    • A machine which reduces slubbing to a finer thread or roving, making it more regular and even puts more twists in and winds it onto a smaller tube.
    • The slubbing is guided in the clamping gap of the delivery rolls which are arranged downstream from the drafting system and at a distance therefrom.
verbsləbsləb
[with object]
  • Twist (wool) in preparation for spinning.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The slubbing machine took the raw wool and combed it into long ropes of yarn that could easily be spun in the spinning machines.
    • When the slubbing is attenuated during yarn manufacture, a very even blend of dyed and undyed fibre is produced and by this means, if black has been used, a grey yarn results.
    • It removes empty cans from drawing and slubbing machines and places them in position for reuse at carding machines.
    • All the advantage in technology the slubbing and roving process is climinated and the material in processed through only the passage of fly frames, viz. the canfed incer frames.
    • Spinning frames draw these slubbing or condensing out to the required fineness of yarn and insert twist to form the yarn.
    • The slubbing billy came into use by the 1790s and looked very similar to an early spinning jenny.

Origin

Late 18th century: of unknown origin.

 
 
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