Wool

Noun

 * 1) The hair of the sheep, llama and some other ruminants.
 * 2) A cloth or yarn made from the wool of sheep.
 * 3) Anything with a texture like that of wool.
 * 1) Anything with a texture like that of wool.

Derived terms

 * andalusian wool
 * breech wool
 * burry wool
 * cotton wool
 * dead pulled wool
 * dyed in the wool
 * fleece wool
 * glass wool
 * ice wool
 * mineral wool
 * much cry and little wool
 * pull the wool over somebody's eyes
 * rag wool
 * scoured wool


 * seed wool
 * Shetland wool
 * shorn wool
 * steel wool
 * thibet wool
 * virgin wool
 * warm as wool
 * waste of wool
 * wire wool
 * wool grease
 * wool oil
 * woolgathering
 * woollen, woolly
 * woolly, wooly

Adjective
wool (no comparative or superlative)


 * 1) Made of wool.

Synonyms

 * woollen, woolen

Adjectives for Wool
soft; unbleached; mineral; ticklish; prickly.

Verbs for Wool
bear—; brush—; card—; comb—; line with —; market—; oil—; rumple—; shear—; sort—; value—; weave of—; yield—; —affords; —comforts; —frays; —insures; — shelters; —shields.

Thesaurus
Aralac, Avisco, Celanese, Chemstrand, Dacron, Dynel, Lastex, Manila, Orlon, Terylene, Velon, Vicara, acetate rayon, alpaca, angora, bast, blubber, breeze, bristle, butter, capillament, cashmere, cilium, clay, cloth, coat, coir, cotton, cushion, dough, down, drapery, eiderdown, etoffe, fabric, feather bed, feathers, felt, flax, fleece, floss, flue, fluff, foam, fur, goods, hair, hemp, horsehair, jute, kapok, lace, linen, llama hair, mane, material, merino, mohair, napery, near-silk, nylon, oakum, pelt, pile, pillow, plush, pubescence, pubic hair, pudding, puff, putty, raffia, rag, rayon, rubber, satin, setula, shag, silk, sisal, spandex, spun rayon, stuff, swansdown, textile, textile fabric, texture, thistledown, tissu, tissue, tussah, velvet, wax, weave, web, weft, woof, worsted, yarn, zephyr

Etymology
wolle:, from wull:, from  (cf. Dutch wol:, German Wolle:, Norwegian ull:), from  (cf. Welsh gwlân:, Latin lana:, Lithuanian vilna:, Russian волна:).

Pronunciation

 * & US:

Noun

 * Arabic: صوف
 * Armenian: բուրդ (burd),
 * Belarusian:
 * Breton: gloan, gloaneier / gloanoù
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: llana
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 羊毛
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: lana
 * Irish: olann
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, 羊毛
 * Kazakh: жүн
 * Korean: 털실 (teolsil)
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: خوری


 * Latin: lāna (f)
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: vilna
 * Macedonian:
 * Malayalam: കമ്പിളി (kampiLi)
 * Mongolian:
 * Navajo:, , ,
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: launa
 * Russian:
 * Scots:
 * Serbian:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: బొచ్చు (boccu)
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Welsh: gwlân
 * Yiddish: וואָל


 * Arabic:
 * Armenian: բուրդ (burd)
 * Breton: gloanaj, gloanajoù , gloanenn , gloanennoù
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 羊毛
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 羊毛


 * Korean: 털실 (teolsil)
 * Lithuanian: vilnonas
 * Macedonian: волница, преѓа
 * Navajo:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbian: predja, prtilica
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: ఉన్ని (unni)
 * Ukrainian:

Adjective
made of wool See woollen, woolen