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JACQUARD

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A loom with an attachment for forming openings for the passage of the shuttle between the warp threads; used in weaving figured fabrics

Synonyms:

Jacquard; Jacquard loom

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("Jacquard" is a kind of...):

loom (a textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A highly figured fabric woven on a Jacquard loom

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("jacquard" is a kind of...):

cloth; fabric; material; textile (artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers)

Sense 3

Meaning:

French inventor of the Jacquard loom that could automatically weave complicated patterns (1752-1834)

Synonyms:

Jacquard; Joseph M. Jacquard; Joseph Marie Jacquard

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

artificer; discoverer; inventor (someone who is the first to think of or make something)

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