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Synonyms for silk
sɪlksilk

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. silknoun

    a fabric made from the fine threads produced by certain insect larvae

  2. silknoun

    animal fibers produced by silkworms and other larvae that spin cocoons and by most spiders

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  1. List of paraphrases for "silk":

    floss, harir, seta, silke, setae, shredded, spectrum

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  1. List of known nicknames for "Silk":

    Oscillator, Isar Logi Arnarsson

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#4483spectrum
#5051silk
#25073shredded
#26102floss
#45899seta
#76278silke
#93316setae

How to use silk in a sentence?

  1. Shah Asad Rizvi:

    She who is a dancer can only sway the silk of her hair like the summer breeze

  2. Shervin Pishevar:

    Hyperloop can improve life dramatically for the 16 million people in the greater Moscow area, cutting their commute to a fraction of what it is today, our longer term vision is to work with Russia to implement a transformative new Silk Road: a cargo Hyperloop that whisks freight containers from China to Europe in a day.

  3. Alessandro Di Grazia:

    Using Italian silk is very important to us because we know who has made it and how. For our purposes we need extremely clean cocoons.

  4. Asa Barber:

    Until now we thought that spider silk was the strongest biological material because of its super-strength and potential applications in everything from bullet-proof vests to computer electronics, but now we have discovered that limpet teeth exhibit a strength that is potentially higher.

  5. Patrick Guerra:

    Silk has been with us for a while since the days of the Silk Road, its not a new fabric, yet now were finding all these new uses for it.


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