silk in Gujarati ગુજરાતી
silk in Malayalam മലയാളം
silk in Sindhi سنڌي
silk in English
- silk⇄adj. silklike.
- silk⇄adj. 1. of, made of, or having to do with silk; like silk; silken.
Ex. She sewed the silk dress with silk thread. Conventional balloons of light rubberised silk fabric can take payloads of half a ton or more (New Scientist).
2. silky. - silk⇄expr. hit the silk, (Slang.) to parachute from a plane.
Ex. The rookie pilots soon learned how to hit the silk. - silk⇄expr. silks, the blouses and caps worn by jockeys and harness race drivers and the coverings sometimes draped over their horses which, by their coloring, identify the owner of these horses; colors.
Ex. Citation raced under the silks of Calumet Farm - silk⇄expr. take silk, (British.) to become a king's or queen's counsel.
Ex. After he ... had taken silk ... he became at least as redoubtable a leader as his father had been (London Times). - silk⇄noun 1. the lustrous, fine, soft, strong fiber spun by silkworms to form their cocoons.
Ex. Raw silk that comes from Hong Kong ... is much heavier (New Yorker).
2. a thread made of this.
3. a cloth made of silk fiber.
Ex. Japane - silk⇄silk, noun, adjective, verb.
- silk⇄v.i. (U.S.) (of corn) to produce silk.