{
    "term": "cloth",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "material made by weaving or knitting cotton, wool, silk, etc.",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "woollen/cotton/linen cloth"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a **piece of cloth**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "His bandages had been made from strips of cloth."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the cloth industry/trade"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a cloth bag"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a jacket made from woollen cloth"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She works in the cloth trade."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They used to export cotton cloth."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Clothes and Fashion"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["coarse", "fine", "woven"],
                "… of cloth": ["bale", "bolt", "length"],
                "verb + cloth": ["make", "produce", "weave"],
                "cloth + noun": ["industry", "manufacture", "merchant"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a piece of cloth, often used for a special purpose, especially cleaning things or covering a table",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Wipe the surface with a damp cloth."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Place the dough in a bowl and cover with a clean cloth."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He gently cleaned her face with a wet cloth."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Wipe the table with a damp cloth."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["soft", "damp", "wet"],
                "verb + cloth": ["dampen", "dip in something", "moisten"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "used to refer to Christian priests as a group",
            "labels": "(literary)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a man of the cloth"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to do only what you have enough money to do and no more",
            "labels": "(saying)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "We wanted to buy a bigger house than this but it was a case of cutting our coat according to our cloth."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/klɒθ/",
                "audio": "cl/cloth/cloth__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/klɒθs/",
                "audio": "cl/cloth/cloths__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/klɔːθ/",
                "audio": "cl/cloth/cloth__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/klɔːðz/",
                "audio": "cl/cloth/cloths__us_1_rr.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English clāth, related to Dutch kleed and German Kleid, of unknown ultimate origin."
}