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kangas — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • cloth noun Woven, knitted, or felted material used for clothing, furnishing, or cleaning.
  • fabric noun Cloth made by weaving or knitting fibres together.
  • heath noun An open, uncultivated stretch of land, typically with sandy soil and low shrubs like heather.
  • mat noun A flat piece of material laid on a floor to wipe feet, protect a surface, or decorate.
  • material noun A substance — such as wood, metal, plastic, or fabric — that something is made from.
  • textile noun A type of cloth or fabric made by weaving, knitting, or otherwise interlacing fibres.

Senses

kangas is used for these senses in English:

  • cloth (countable, uncountable) A fabric, usually made of woven, knitted, or felted fibres or filaments, such as used in dressing, decorating, cleaning or other practical use.
  • cloth (countable) A piece of cloth used for a particular purpose.
  • cloth (metaphoric) Appearance; seeming.
  • fabric A material made of fibers, a textile or cloth.
  • heath A tract of level uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation; heathland.
  • mat A thin layer of woven, non-woven, or knitted fiber that serves as reinforcement to a material.
  • material Cloth to be made into a garment; woven fabric.

cloth — full definition

  1. noun Woven, knitted, or felted material used for clothing, furnishing, or cleaning.
  2. noun A tablecloth, especially one laid out for a meal.
  3. noun The clergy or priesthood, referred to by their traditional dress.

fabric — full definition

  1. noun Cloth made by weaving or knitting fibres together.
  2. noun The basic underlying structure of something, especially a society, building, or system.

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