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Meaning of "woolliness" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF WOOLLINESS

woolliness  [ˈwʊlɪnɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WOOLLINESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Woolliness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES WOOLLINESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of woolliness in the English dictionary

The definition of woolliness in the dictionary is vagueness. Other definition of woolliness is woolly texture.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH WOOLLINESS


comeliness
ˈkʌmlɪnɪs
deadliness
ˈdedlɪnɪs
friendliness
ˈfrɛndlɪnɪs
godliness
ˈɡɒdlɪnɪs
holiness
ˈhəʊlɪnɪs
kindliness
ˈkaɪndlɪnɪs
liveliness
ˈlaɪvlɪnɪs
loveliness
ˈlʌvlɪnɪs
lowliness
ˈləʊlɪnɪs
manliness
ˈmænlɪnɪs
oiliness
ˈɔɪlɪnɪs
shoaliness
ˈʃəʊlɪnɪs
silliness
ˈsɪlɪnɪs
timeliness
ˈtaɪmlɪnɪs
ugliness
ˈʌɡlɪnɪs
ungodliness
ʌnˈɡɒdlɪnɪs
user-friendliness
ˌjuːzəˈfrendlɪnɪs
womanliness
ˈwʊmənlɪnɪs
wooliness
ˈwʊlɪnɪs
worldliness
ˈwɜːldlɪnɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WOOLLINESS

woolled
woollen
woollens
Woolley
woollier
woollies
woolliest
woollily
woolly
woolly bear
woolly indris
woolly mammoth
woolly pully
woolly rhinoceros
woolly spider monkey
woolly thistle
woolly-minded
woollyback
woollybutt

WORDS THAT END LIKE WOOLLINESS

agribusiness
big business
bulkiness
business
cleanliness
cleanliness is next to godliness
core business
craziness
dizziness
do the business
e-business
emptiness
family business
fitness
happiness
laziness
loneliness
readiness
rough-and-readiness
show business
trustworthiness

Synonyms and antonyms of woolliness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «woolliness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WOOLLINESS

Find out the translation of woolliness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of woolliness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «woolliness» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

woolliness
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

imprecisión
570 millions of speakers

English

woolliness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

woolliness
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الصوفية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

пушистость
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

lanosidade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

woolliness
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

verbosité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kebersihan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Verschwommenheit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

woolliness
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

텁수룩
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Woolly
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

woolliness
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

woolliness
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वोललिपणा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yünlülük
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

lanosità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zdrewnienie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

пухнастість
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

aspect lânos
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

χνούδι
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

wollerigheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

dunighet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

woolliness
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of woolliness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WOOLLINESS»

The term «woolliness» is used very little and occupies the 172.668 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «WOOLLINESS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «woolliness» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «woolliness» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about woolliness

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WOOLLINESS»

Discover the use of woolliness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to woolliness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Produce Degradation: Pathways and Prevention
The problem of woolliness or mealiness in peaches and nectarines has long been recognized as resulting from storage at chilling temperatures.3 Fruits suffering from these conditions have a good appearance when removed from cold storage ...
Olusola Lamikanra, Syed H. Imam, 2005
2
Physical Properties of Foods: Novel Measurement Techniques ...
M Magness-Taylor test, 55, 58, 60, 78, 166, 170, 171, 172, 175, 196 Magnetic inductance technology (MIT), 336 Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) description , 11 firmness testing, use in, 67 mealiness and woolliness measurement, use in, ...
Ignacio Arana, 2012
3
Optical Monitoring of Fresh and Processed Agricultural Crops
Peach woolliness is an undesirable texture trait similar to apple mealiness with soft flesh that has absence of crispness and juiciness. Peach woolliness has been studied using MRI with less skewed MRI spectra T2 maps found for fruits with ...
Manuela Zude, 2008
4
Prehistoric Textiles: The Development of Cloth in the ...
The first issue is that of woolliness. For example, Charles Reed states (1960, 137 ): It is sometimes naively assumed by prehistorians and other non-zoologists that sheep were domesticated for their wool. Actually, wild goats and wild sheep ...
E. J. W. Barber, 1991
5
Post-Harvest Diseases and Disorders of Fruits and ...
Development of woolliness can be reduced by intermittent warming during the storage period or by holding the fnrit at 20° C for one or two days prior to cooling ( 6). A storage temperature of 0°C is optimal for control of woolliness. The most ...
Anna L. Snowdon, 2010
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Modified and Controlled Atmospheres for the Storage, ...
Thus, both delayed storage of 'Flavortop' nectarine fruits held for 48 h at 20°C before storage, and CA storage of 10 kPa CO2, 3 kPa O2, alleviated or prevented CI manifested as woolliness in nectarine fruits stored for 4 or 6 weeks at 0°C.
Elhadi M. Yahia, 2009
7
Cistineae the Natural Oder of Cistus or Rock-Rose
Stem frutescent, much branched, clothed with a brown roughish bark, and marked with rings, where the leaves have fallen: branches erect, cylindrical, clothed with a close-pressed hoary woolliness. Leaves opposite, petiolate, linear, oblongly ...
Robert Sweet, 1825
8
A Companion to the Philosophy of Action
One paradigm used both by Sartre and by MerleauPonty is the relation between the color and the texture of a carpet: the carpet hasn't got two externally related qualities, woolliness and redness: the carpet is a woolly red (Sartre 1965: 276; ...
Timothy O'Connor, Constantine Sandis, 2012
9
Fruit Quality and Its Biological Basis
Late ripening nectarines are sensitive to low temperature storage and develop mealiness or woolliness after a few weeks at 0°C. Fruits affected by this non- pathogenic disorder have a good appearance when removed from storage but do not ...
Michael Knee, 2002
10
Biochemistry of Foods
Recent studies by von Mollendorff and De Villiers (1988), however, showed that the primary cause of woolliness in peaches was the sudden rise in the level of polygalacturonase, while the role of PME was far less clear. Nevertheless, the ...
N.A. Michael Eskin, Fereidoon Shahidi, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WOOLLINESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term woolliness is used in the context of the following news items.
1
The Swindle Review
My failure is more often of my own doing, but there is a woolliness to the controls when trying to grab onto a wall and there are the little quirks and glitches that ... «TheSixthAxis, Jul 15»
2
Why Yvette Cooper is keeping quiet about what she believes
And that's why not saying too much about what you believe is a sign of hard-headed pragmatism, not woolliness. Tags: Labour, Labour leadership contest 2015, ... «Spectator.co.uk, Jul 15»
3
PREMIERE: Embrace Your Constant State of Confusion with Fran …
Of course, with the not so affectionate nickname of the “Me Me Me Generation,” millennials can't help apply this level of over-analyzing and woolliness to more ... «Noisey, Jun 15»
4
Pratip Kar: Companies Act 2013 and internal financial controls
The outcome of the woolliness of the clause will be felt on implementation. The possible endgame scenarios will be: a) most companies (and the number will be ... «Business Standard, Apr 15»
5
Five Tips for Men Going Sockless This Season
And a final tip for the more hirsute men out there: Remember, it's a sockless look. If you've got some major woolliness going on, don't be afraid of a summer trim. «Bloomberg, Apr 15»
6
Diarmaid Ferriter: Failure to reverse Junior Cert history plan is …
There is also a fair amount of waffle, woolliness and vagueness in the programme. What is a “large-scale signature people's event”? The assertion that “2016 ... «Irish Times, Apr 15»
7
Eschenbach starts two-week Tchaikovsky focus at NSO with unusual …
Rostropovich was not a tidy conductor, and a certain woolliness in performance has remained one of the orchestra's hallmarks, even under Eschenbach, who ... «Washington Post, Jan 15»
8
Can Irish political anger convert into effective governance?
... statements, Browne maintained, “merely emphasised the party's utopian woolliness”. ... or are we living through a new era of rhetorical “utopian woolliness”? «Irish Times, Nov 14»
9
Pilgrim, the Calvert Trust's Shetland pony, tells us what he's been up …
I am losing my winter woolliness at the moment so all the long hair which protected me from the wind, rain and cold is starting to fall out. I was brushed for ages ... «North Devon Journal, Jun 14»
10
The Elections bill has given Thomas Mulcair an opening, but will he …
... major strategic disadvantage to both the Trudeau Liberals and the Harper Conservatives — and that is his party's chronic, historic woolliness on the economy, ... «National Post, Apr 14»

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« EDUCALINGO. Woolliness [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/woolliness>. Apr 2024 ».
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