Synonym: cloth, fabric, goods, material. Similar words: extinct, text, extinction, texture, context, pretext, textbook, tile. Meaning: ['tekstaɪl] n. artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers. adj. of or relating to fabrics or fabric making.
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91. In the first half 170 textile companies recorded problems compared with 112 in the whole of 1988.
92. A small number were textile millworkers, others were miners, fishermen, or seamen, skilled craftsmen, or farmworkers.
93. It's a growing town - because of the textile mills -but not growing in virtue, that I can tell you.
94. Leaving school, he had studied textile design and that last summer of all he was already a first-year student.
95. Unless those tariffs are diminished our textile industry will have a tough time, and more jobs will be lost.
96. The fact that a water is potable does not, however, necessarily make it suitable for textile purposes.
97. The first is a comparative study of wool textile organisations, investigating the relationship between career development, innovation and company performance.
98. Expansion plans and improved profits at textile group Albion helped it to a 24p rise to 75p.
99. There was, until recently, little direct information on the requirements of the textile industry.
100. The Sorensons contacted a textile expert to assist in developing a competent dyeing procedure.
101. Textile finds across Eurasia from the earlier part of the Neolithic are almost uniformly of plant fibres, particularly flax and hemp.
102. In textile manufacture women were first and foremost the spinners.
103. Since the textile company moved out, the area's gotten very run-down.
104. It wasn't until 1970 that modern textile colouring made the now familiar red and white sock possible.
105. The historic Longfords mill is described by historians as an important relic of the textile trade.
106. What over the years have been the main disadvantages for textile manufacturers?
107. We have a number of enterprises which export successfully now: the engineering industry, textile machines.
108. Gordon has extensive experience of the textile industry, specialising in production and planning control.
109. This could help solve one of the textile industry's biggest problems, removing colouring and chemicals from waste water.
110. The Trabant, for example, boasts textile floor covering and a two-tone horn.
111. The valleys began to fill rapidly with people who became skilled in the textile industry.
112. Many people moved from Asia to work in the British textile industry, where jobs were plentiful.
113. Researchers in Stanford and Princeton collaborated to manufacture a completely new waterproof textile.
114. She survived by working in a textile mill and receiving supplementary welfare.
115. The museum is mainly concerned with the local textile industry, and is particularly good on the period of the Luddite riots.
116. Particular attention was paid to the floor coverings, textile and chemicals industries.
117. He earned pocket money by repairing furniture for neighbors and then trained as a patternmaker for a company that produced textile machines.
118. Such corrosion deposits are frequently referred to by names implying that the textile is replaced by corrosion products.
119. She works in a textile mill.
120. Old style textile protectionism suddenly has a new look.