All lisle synonyms

noun lisle

• cord — Cord is strong, thick string.
• wire — a slender, stringlike piece or filament of relatively rigid or flexible metal, usually circular in section, manufactured in a great variety of diameters and metals depending on its application.
• string — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
• yarn — thread made of natural or synthetic fibers and used for knitting and weaving.
• hair — any of the numerous fine, usually cylindrical, keratinous filaments growing from the skin of humans and animals; a pilus.
• fiber — a fine, threadlike piece, as of cotton, jute, or asbestos.
• strand — to form (a rope, cable, etc.) by twisting strands together.
• filament — a very fine thread or threadlike structure; a fiber or fibril: filaments of gold.
• wool — the fine, soft, curly hair that forms the fleece of sheep and certain other animals, characterized by minute, overlapping surface scales that give it its felting property.
• ribbon — a woven strip or band of fine material, as silk or rayon, varying in width and finished off at the edges, used for ornament, tying, etc.
• cotton — Cotton is a type of cloth made from soft fibres from a particular plant.
• silk — the soft, lustrous fiber obtained as a filament from the cocoon of the silkworm.
• braid — Braid is a narrow piece of decorated cloth or twisted threads, which is used to decorate clothes or curtains.
• gossamer — a fine, filmy cobweb seen on grass or bushes or floating in the air in calm weather, especially in autumn.
• fibril — a small or fine fiber or filament.
• floss — the cottony fiber yielded by the silk-cotton tree.
• ligature — the act of binding or tying up: The ligature of the artery was done with skill.
• twine — a strong thread or string composed of two or more strands twisted together.
• warp — OS/2
• staple — a principal raw material or commodity grown or manufactured in a locality.
• pile — the lower of two dies for coining by hand.
• ravel — to disentangle or unravel the threads or fibers of (a woven or knitted fabric, rope, etc.).
• stamen — the pollen-bearing organ of a flower, consisting of the filament and the anther.
• weft — Textiles. filling (def 5).
• lint — minute shreds or ravelings of yarn; bits of thread.
• raveling — a tangle or complication.
• woof — filling (def 5).
• thrum — to play on a stringed instrument, as a guitar, by plucking the strings, especially in an idle, monotonous, or unskillful manner; strum.
• flax — any plant of the genus Linum, especially L. usitatissimum, a slender, erect, annual plant having narrow, lance-shaped leaves and blue flowers, cultivated for its fiber and seeds.
• fibre — a fine, threadlike piece, as of cotton, jute, or asbestos.
• ravelling — to disentangle or unravel the threads or fibers of (a woven or knitted fabric, rope, etc.).