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QUILT

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together

Synonyms:

comfort; comforter; puff; quilt

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

bed clothing; bedclothes; bedding (coverings that are used on a bed)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "quilt"):

continental quilt; duvet; eiderdown (a soft quilt usually filled with the down of the eider)

patchwork; patchwork quilt (a quilt made by sewing patches of different materials together)

Derivation:

quilt (create by stitching together)

quilt (stitch or sew together)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Create by stitching together

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "quilt" is one way to...):

sew; tailor; tailor-make (create (clothes) with cloth)

"Quilt" entails doing...:

bolster; pad (add padding to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They quilt the cape

Derivation:

quilt (bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together)

quilting (stitching through layers of fabric and a filling so as to create a design)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Stitch or sew together

Example:

quilt the skirt

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "quilt" is one way to...):

conjoin; join (make contact or come together)

"Quilt" entails doing...:

run up; sew; sew together; stitch (fasten by sewing; do needlework)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

quilt (bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together)

quilting (stitching through layers of fabric and a filling so as to create a design)

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 Context examples: 

Having spread the quilt and folded my night-dress, I went to the window-seat to put in order some picture-books and doll's house furniture scattered there; an abrupt command from Georgiana to let her playthings alone (for the tiny chairs and mirrors, the fairy plates and cups, were her property) stopped my proceedings; and then, for lack of other occupation, I fell to breathing on the frost-flowers with which the window was fretted, and thus clearing a space in the glass through which I might look out on the grounds, where all was still and petrified under the influence of a hard frost.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The room was quilted on all sides, as well as the floor and the ceiling, to prevent any accident from the carelessness of those who carried me, and to break the force of a jolt, when I went in a coach.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The girl had lined it on all sides with the softest cloth she could get, well quilted underneath, furnished it with her baby’s bed, provided me with linen and other necessaries, and made everything as convenient as she could.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Before I went to sleep, I gave him to understand that I had some valuable furniture in my box, too good to be lost: a fine hammock, a handsome field-bed, two chairs, a table, and a cabinet; that my closet was hung on all sides, or rather quilted, with silk and cotton; that if he would let one of the crew bring my closet into his cabin, I would open it there before him, and show him my goods.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The captain, hearing me utter these absurdities, concluded I was raving; however (I suppose to pacify me) he promised to give order as I desired, and going upon deck, sent some of his men down into my closet, whence (as I afterwards found) they drew up all my goods, and stripped off the quilting; but the chairs, cabinet, and bedstead, being screwed to the floor, were much damaged by the ignorance of the seamen, who tore them up by force.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)