Silk

Noun

 * 1)  A fine fiber excreted by the silkworm or other arthropod (such as a spider).
 * The silk thread was barely visible.
 * 1)  A fine, soft cloth woven from silk fibers.
 * I had a small square of silk, but it wasn't enough to make what I wanted.
 * 1) The gown worn by a Senior (i.e. Queen's/King's) Counsel
 * 2)  a Senior (i.e. Queen's/King's) Counsel

Derived terms

 * make a silk purse of a sow's ear
 * silken


 * silky
 * silkweaver
 * silkweaving


 * silkworm
 * smooth as silk
 * take silk

Adjectives for Silk
watered; seeded; pompadour; domestic; heavy; fresh; delicate; faded; exquisite; glistening; pleated; scarlet; flimsy; new-spun; delicate-filmed.

Verbs for Silk
apparel in—; arrange—; array in—; attire in—; bale—; begrime—; braid—; cast ofL —; divest of—; drape—; dress in—; entwine—; export—; fabricate—; fringe with —; import—; impregnate—; invest in—; lace—; mat—; net—; plait—; shear—; shred—; skein—; spin—; tangle—; veil in —; warp—; weave—; —fades; —rustles; —tears.

Thesaurus
AG, DA, KC, QC, SSC, US attorney, alabaster, attorney general, billiard table, blubber, bowling alley, bowling green, breeze, butter, civilian, clay, cloth, corporation lawyer, court-appointed lawyer, criminal lawyer, cushion, daintiness, defense counsel, delicacy, district attorney, dough, down, downiness, drapery, eiderdown, etoffe, fabric, feather bed, feathers, felt, filminess, fine-grainedness, fineness, flat, fleece, floss, flue, fluff, fluffiness, foam, fuzz, fuzziness, glass, goods, gossameriness, ice, ivory, junior counsel, kapok, lace, law agent, leader, level, mahogany, marble, material, mouthpiece, napery, peach fuzz, pillow, plane, plush, private attorney, prosecuting attorney, prosecutor, pubescence, public prosecutor, publicist, pudding, puff, putty, rag, refinement, rubber, satin, satininess, silk gown, silkiness, slide, smooth, smoothness, softness, solicitor general, special pleader, stuff, stuff gown, stuff-gownsman, swansdown, tennis court, textile, textile fabric, texture, thistledown, tissu, tissue, velvet, velvetiness, wax, weave, web, weft, woof, wool, zephyr

Etymology
sioloc, seolc. The immediate source is uncertain; it probably reached English via the Baltic trade routes (cognates in Old Norse silki, Russian шёлк, obsolete Lithuanian zilkaĩ), all from or cognate with late Latin sericum, neuter of Latin Sericus, from Greek σηρικός, ultimately from an Oriental language (represented now by e.g. Chinese 絲 (sī) ‘silk’). Compare Seres.

Translations

 * Arabic: حرير
 * Armenian:
 * Basque: zeta
 * Belarusian: шоўк
 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian: коприна,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , 絲線, 丝线
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: silke
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: აბრეშუმი
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Gujarati: રેશમ (rešam)
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian: selyemszál
 * Indonesian: sutra
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean: 명주 (明紬), 비단 (緋緞)


 * Kurdish:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: saida
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: свила
 * Roman: svila
 * Slovak: hodváb
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: silke
 * Telugu: పట్టు (paTTu)
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: ýüpek
 * Ukrainian: шовк
 * Urdu:
 * Vietnamese:


 * Arabic: حرير
 * Armenian:
 * Bosnian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , 絲綢, 丝绸
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: zijde, zijdedoek
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish:
 * Japanese:, 絹布, 絹地
 * Lithuanian:


 * Macedonian:
 * Maltese:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: свила
 * Roman: svila
 * Swedish: silke
 * Taos: sédoną
 * Telugu: పట్టు (paTTu)
 * Thai: ผ้าไหม
 * Ukrainian: шовк
 * Vietnamese: vải lụa

Anagrams

 * skil