algodón
cotton ; cotton wool.
When appropriate, give the material(s) of which the object is made; e.g., 1 quilt : cotton.
Place a drop of a saturated solution of sugar in water on the paper and dab up the excess liquid with cotton wool.
algodón de azúcar [Inglés británico] [Americano]
candy floss
cotton candy
The anthology for children 'Candy Floss' collects poems, ballads and carols.
The puffy white clouds more suggestive of cotton candy than cumulonimbus.
bastoncillo de algodón
cotton swab
Throat and nasal specimens were obtained from 53 children, using sterile cotton swabs.
fábrica de tejidos de algodón
mill
cotton mill
To be sure, it still has its congeries of mills and factories, its grimy huddle of frame dwellings and congested tenements, its stark, jagged skyline, but its old face is gradually changing.
As women became a vital and very large source of labour, particularly in New England, where they worked in the cotton mills, they achieved access to libraries through obligatory attendance at Sunday Schools.
hilado del algodón
cotton spinning
This is made possible by the use of the initial capital letter which thus acts as an indicator, e.g.: H050 G572 Heart operations, E154 I222 Pruning of shrubs, I420 U505 cotton spinning.
paño de algodón
cotton cloth
Use a clean cotton cloth to wipe off the water and any remaining paint.
pasar la prueba del algodón
pass + the white-glove test
The service was incredible and it definitely passed the white-glove test with flying colours.
prueba del algodón, la
white-glove test, the
The social worker is not there to do a 'white-glove test' of your home, but is there to ensure that you and your family are suitable to adopt a child.
tela de algodón
calico
cotton fabric
cotton cloth
Plain calico makes a serviceable book cover but it looks better when it is coloured.
Moleskin is a wonderfully comfortable, tough and hard-wearing cotton fabric that is as tough as leather but as soft as velvet to the touch.
Use a clean cotton cloth to wipe off the water and any remaining paint.
trapo de algodón
cotton cloth
Use a clean cotton cloth to wipe off the water and any remaining paint.
trapos de algodón [Material que se utiliza como materia prima para hacer el papel de trapo de algodón]
cotton rags
The early paper-making machines were dependent, as the hand vats had been, upon linen and (when they became available) cotton rags as their chief source of raw material.
