Synonyms of the word

raft

• n. A flat structure made of planks, barrels etc., that floats on water, and is used for transport, emergencies…
• n. A flat-bottomed inflatable craft for floating or drifting on water.
• n. A thick crowd of seabirds or sea mammals.
• n. (US) A collection of logs, fallen trees, etc. which obstructs navigation in a river.
• v. (transitive) to convey on a raft.
• v. (transitive) to make into a raft.
• v. (intransitive) to travel by raft.
• n. A large (but unspecified) number, a lot.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of reave.

batch

• n. A bank; a sandbank.
• n. A field or patch of ground lying near a stream; the dale in which a stream flows.
• n. (obsolete) The process of baking.
• n. The quantity of bread or other baked goods baked at one time.
• n. A quantity of anything produced at one operation.
• n. A group or collection of things of the same kind, such as a batch of letters or the next batch of business.
• n. (computing) A set of data to be processed with one execution of a program.
• n. (Britain, dialect, Midlands) A bread roll.
• n. (Philippines) A graduating class.
• v. To aggregate things together into a batch.
• v. (computing) To handle a set of input data or requests as a batch process.
• adj. Of a process, operating for a defined set of conditions, and then halting.
• v. (informal) To live as a bachelor temporarily, of a married man or someone virtually married.

construct

• n. Something constructed from parts.
• n. A concept or model.
• n. (genetics) A segment of nucleic acid, created artificially, for transplantation into a target cell or…
• v. (transitive) To build or form (something) by assembling parts.
• v. (transitive) To build (a sentence, an argument, etc.) by arranging words or ideas.
• v. (transitive, geometry) To draw (a geometric figure) by following precise specifications and using geometric…

deal

• n. (obsolete) A division, a portion, a share.
• n. (often followed by of) An indefinite quantity or amount; a lot (now usually qualified by great or good).
• v. (transitive) To distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one’s portion or share.
• v. (transitive) To administer or give out, as in small portions.
• v. To distribute cards to the players in a game.
• v. (baseball) To pitch.
• v. (intransitive) To have dealings or business.
• v. (intransitive) To conduct oneself, to behave.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To take action; to act.
• v. (intransitive) To trade professionally (followed by in).
• v. (transitive) To sell, especially to sell illicit drugs.
• v. (intransitive) To be concerned with.
• v. (intransitive) To handle, to manage, to cope.
• n. (archaic in general sense) An act of dealing or sharing.
• n. The distribution of cards to players; a player's turn for this.
• n. A particular instance of buying or selling, a transaction.
• n. Specifically, a transaction offered which is financially beneficial; a bargain.
• n. An agreement between parties; an arrangement.
• n. (informal) A situation, occasion, or event.
• n. (informal) A thing, an unspecified or unidentified object.
• n. (uncountable) Wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir).
• n. (countable) A plank of softwood (fir or pine board).
• n. (countable, archaic) A wooden board or plank, usually between 12 or 14 feet in length, traded as a commodity…
• adj. Made of deal.

fabricate

• v. (transitive) To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to construct; to build.
• v. (transitive) To form by art and labor; to manufacture; to produce.
• v. (transitive) To invent and form; to forge; to devise falsely.
• v. (transitive, cooking) To cut up an animal as preparation for cooking, particularly used in reference to…

float

• v. (intransitive) Of an object or substance, to be supported by a liquid of greater density than the object…
• v. (transitive) To cause something to be suspended in a liquid of greater density.
• v. (intransitive) To be capable of floating.
• v. (intransitive) To move in a particular direction with the liquid in which one is floating.
• v. (intransitive) To drift or wander aimlessly.
• v. (intransitive) To drift gently through the air.
• v. (intransitive) To move in a fluid manner.
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) (of an idea or scheme) To be viable.
• v. (transitive) To propose (an idea) for consideration.
• v. (intransitive) To automatically adjust a parameter as related parameters change.
• v. (intransitive, finance) (of currencies) To have an exchange value determined by the markets as opposed…
• v. (transitive, finance) To allow (the exchange value of a currency) to be determined by the markets.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To extend a short-term loan to.
• v. (transitive, finance) To issue or sell shares in a company (or units in a trust) to members of the public,…
• v. (transitive) To use a float (tool).
• v. (poker) To perform a float.
• v. (computing, transitive) To cause (an element within a document) to float above or beside others.
• n. A buoyant device used to support something in water or another liquid.
• n. A mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft.
• n. A float board.
• n. A tool similar to a rasp, used in various trades.
• n. A sort of trowel used for finishing concrete surfaces or smoothing plaster.
• n. An elaborately decorated trailer or vehicle, intended for display in a parade or pageant.
• n. (Britain) A small vehicle used for local deliveries, especially in the term milk float.
• n. (finance) Funds committed to be paid but not yet paid.
• n. (finance, Australia, and other Commonwealth countries?) An offering of shares in a company (or units in…
• n. (banking) The total amount of checks/cheques or other drafts written against a bank account but not yet…
• n. (insurance) Premiums taken in but not yet paid out.
• n. (programming) A floating-point number, especially one that has lower precision than a double.
• n. A soft beverage with a scoop of ice-cream floating in it.
• n. A small sum of money put in a cashier's till at the start of business to enable change to be made.
• n. (poker) A maneuver where a player calls on the flop or turn with a weak hand, with the intention of bluffing…
• n. (knitting) One of the loose ends of yarn on an unfinished work.
• n. (automotive) a car carrier or car transporter truck or truck-and-trailer combination.
• n. (transport) a lowboy trailer.
• n. (tempering) A device sending a copious stream of water to the heated surface of a bulky object, such as…
• n. (obsolete) The act of flowing; flux; flow.
• n. A quantity of earth, eighteen feet square and one foot deep.
• n. A polishing block used in marble working; a runner.
• n. (Britain, dated) A coal cart.
• n. A breakdancing move in which the body is held parallel to the floor while balancing on one or both hands.
• n. (computing) A visual style on a web page that causes the styled elements to float above or beside others.

flock

• n. A large number of birds, especially those gathered together for the purpose of migration.
• n. A large number of animals, especially sheep or goats kept together.
• n. Those served by a particular pastor or shepherd.
• n. A large number of people.
• v. (intransitive) To congregate in or head towards a place in large numbers.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To flock to; to crowd.
• v. To treat a pool with chemicals to remove suspended particles.
• n. Coarse tufts of wool or cotton used in bedding.
• n. A lock of wool or hair.
• n. Very fine sifted woollen refuse, especially that from shearing the nap of cloths, formerly used as a coating…
• v. (transitive) To coat a surface with dense fibers or particles.

go

• v. To move.
• v. (intransitive, chiefly of a machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
• v. (intransitive) To start; to begin (an action or process).
• v. (intransitive) To take a turn, especially in a game.
• v. (intransitive) To attend.
• v. To proceed.
• v. To follow or travel along (a path).
• v. (intransitive) To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
• v. (intransitive) To lead (to a place); to give access to.
• v. (copula) To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.).
• v. To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
• v. (intransitive) To continuously or habitually be in a state.
• v. To come to (a certain condition or state).
• v. (intransitive) To change (from one value to another).
• v. To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
• v. (intransitive) To tend (toward a result).
• v. To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
• v. To pass, to be used up.
• v. (intransitive) To die.
• v. (intransitive) To be discarded.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To be lost or out.
• v. To break down or apart.
• v. (intransitive) To be sold.
• v. (intransitive) To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
• v. (transitive, sports) To have a certain record.
• v. To be authoritative, accepted, or valid.
• v. To say (something), to make a sound.
• v. To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
• v. (intransitive) To resort (to).
• v. To apply or subject oneself to.
• v. To fit (in a place, or together with something).
• v. (intransitive) To date.
• v. To attack.
• v. To be in general; to be usually.
• v. (transitive) To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
• v. (transitive) To yield or weigh.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To enjoy. (Compare go for.).
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To urinate or defecate.
• n. (uncommon) The act of going.
• n. A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
• n. An attempt, a try.
• n. An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
• n. An act; the working or operation.
• n. (slang, dated) A circumstance or occurrence; an incident.
• n. (dated) The fashion or mode.
• n. (dated) Noisy merriment.
• n. (slang, archaic) A glass of spirits; a quantity of spirits.
• n. Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
• n. (cribbage) The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above…
• n. A period of activity.
• n. (obsolete, British slang) A dandy; a fashionable person.
• n. (board games) A strategic board game, originally from China, in which two players (black and white) attempt…

hatful

• n. The amount that will fit into a hat.
• n. (soccer, Britain) A large number (usually talking about goalscoring chances).

heap

• n. A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.
• n. A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.
• n. A great number or large quantity of things.
• n. (computing) A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.
• n. (computing) Memory that is dynamically allocated.
• n. (colloquial) A dilapidated place or vehicle.
• n. (colloquial) A lot, a large amount.
• v. (transitive) To pile in a heap.
• v. (transitive) To form or round into a heap, as in measuring.
• v. (transitive) To supply in great quantity.

locomote

• v. (now chiefly biology) To move or travel (from one location to another).

lot

• n. A large quantity or number; a great deal.
• n. A separate portion; a number of things taken collectively.
• n. One or more items auctioned or sold as a unit, separate from other items.
• n. (informal) A number of people taken collectively.
• n. A distinct portion or plot of land, usually smaller than a field.
• n. That which happens without human design or forethought; chance; accident; hazard; fortune; fate.
• n. Anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without…
• n. The part, or fate, that falls to one, as it were, by chance, or without his planning.
• n. A prize in a lottery.
• n. Allotment; lottery.
• n. (definite, the lot) All members of a set; everything.
• n. An old unit of weight used in many European countries from the Middle Ages, often defined as 1/30 or 1/32…
• v. (transitive, dated) To allot; to sort; to apportion.
• v. (US, informal, dated) To count or reckon (on or upon).

manufacture

• n. The action or process of making goods systematically or on a large scale.
• n. Anything made, formed or produced; product.
• n. (figuratively) The process of such production; generation, creation.
• v. To make things, usually on a large scale, with tools and either physical labor or machinery.
• v. (transitive) To work (raw or partly wrought materials) into suitable forms for use.
• v. (derogatory) To fabricate; to create false evidence to support a point.

mass

• n. (physical) Matter, material.
• n. A large quantity; a sum.
• n. (quantity) Large in number.
• v. (transitive) To form or collect into a mass; to form into a collective body; to bring together into masses;…
• v. (intransitive) To have a certain mass.
• adj. Involving a mass of things; concerning a large quantity or number.
• adj. Involving a mass of people; of, for, or by the masses.
• n. (Christianity) The Eucharist, now especially in Roman Catholicism.
• n. (Christianity) Celebration of the Eucharist.
• n. (Christianity, usually as the Mass) The sacrament of the Eucharist.
• n. A musical setting of parts of the mass.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To celebrate mass.

mess

• n. (obsolete) Mass; a church service.
• n. (archaic) A quantity of food set on a table at one time; provision of food for a person or party for one…
• n. A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common, especially military personnel…
• n. A set of four (from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner).
• n. (US) The milk given by a cow at one milking.
• v. (intransitive) To take meals with a mess.
• v. (intransitive) To belong to a mess.
• v. (intransitive) To eat (with others).
• v. (transitive) To supply with a mess.
• n. A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding;…
• n. (colloquial) A large quantity or number.
• n. (euphemistic) Excrement.
• v. (transitive) To make a mess of.
• v. (transitive) To throw into confusion.
• v. (intransitive) To interfere.

mickle

• n. (chiefly Scotland) A great amount.
• n. (Scotland) A small amount.
• n. (obsolete) Important or great people as a class.
• n. (obsolete) Greatness, largeness, stature.
• pron. (now chiefly Scotland) A large amount or great extent.
• adv. (now chiefly Scotland) To a great extent.
• adv. (obsolete) Often, frequently.

mint

• v. (intransitive, provincial, Northern England, Scotland) To try, attempt; take aim.
• v. (transitive, provincial, Northern England, Scotland) To try, attempt, endeavor; to take aim at; to try…
• v. (intransitive, chiefly Scotland) To hint; suggest; insinuate.
• n. (provincial, Northern England, Scotland) Intent, purpose; an attempt, try; effort, endeavor.
• n. A building or institution where money (originally, only coins) is produced under government licence.
• n. (informal) A large amount of money. A vast sum or amount, etc.
• n. (figuratively) Any place regarded as a source of unlimited supply; the supply itself.
• v. (transitive) To reproduce (coins), usually en masse, under licence.
• v. To invent; to forge; to fabricate; to fashion.
• adj. (of condition) as new.
• adj. (numismatics) In near-perfect condition; uncirculated.
• adj. (philately) Unused with original gum; as issued originally.
• adj. (Britain, slang) Very good.
• n. Any plant in the genus Mentha in the family Lamiaceae, typically aromatic with square stems.
• n. The flavouring of the plant, either a sweet, a jelly or sauce.
• n. Any plant in the mint family, Lamiaceae.
• n. A green colour, like that of mint.
• n. A mint-flavored candy, often eaten to sweeten the smell of the breath.
• adj. Of a green colour, like that of the mint plant.

move

• v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
• v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
• v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
• v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
• v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
• v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
• v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
• v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
• n. The act of moving; a movement.
• n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
• n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
• n. The event of changing one's residence.
• n. A change in strategy.
• n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
• n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…

muckle

• n. (chiefly Scotland) A great amount.
• adj. (archaic outside Northumbria and Scotland) Large, massive.
• adj. (archaic outside Northumbria and Scotland) Much.
• v. (US, dialectal) To latch onto something with the mouth.
• v. (rare) To talk big; to exaggerate.

peck

• v. To strike or pierce with the beak or bill (of a bird) or similar instrument.
• v. (transitive) To form by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument.
• v. To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument, especially with repeated quick…
• v. To seize and pick up with the beak, or as if with the beak; to bite; to eat; often with up.
• v. To do something in small, intermittent pieces.
• v. To type by searching for each key individually.
• v. (rare) To type in general.
• v. To kiss briefly.
• n. An act of pecking.
• n. A small kiss.
• n. One quarter of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts.
• n. A great deal; a large or excessive quantity.
• v. (regional) To throw.
• v. To lurch forward; especially, of a horse, to stumble after hitting the ground with the toe instead of…
• n. Discoloration caused by fungus growth or insects.
• n. Misspelling of pec.

pile

• n. A mass of things heaped together; a heap.
• n. (figuratively, informal) A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind…
• n. A mass formed in layers.
• n. A funeral pile; a pyre.
• n. A large building, or mass of buildings.
• n. A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering…
• n. A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals, as copper and zinc, laid up with disks…
• n. (obsolete) The reverse (or tails) of a coin.
• n. (figuratively) A list or league.
• v. (transitive, often used with the preposition "up") To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to…
• v. (transitive) To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.
• v. (transitive) To add something to a great number.
• v. (transitive) (of vehicles) To create a hold-up.
• v. (transitive, military) To place (guns, muskets, etc.) together in threes so that they can stand upright,…
• n. (obsolete) A dart; an arrow.
• n. The head of an arrow or spear.
• n. A large stake, or piece of pointed timber, steel etc., driven into the earth or sea-bed for the support…
• n. (heraldry) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise,…
• v. (transitive) To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
• n. (usually in the plural) A hemorrhoid.
• n. Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now…
• n. The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; the nap of a cloth.
• n. An atomic pile; an early form of nuclear reactor.

plenty

• n. A more than adequate amount.
• pron. More than enough.
• adv. More than sufficiently.
• adv. (colloquial) Used as an intensifier, very.
• adj. (obsolete) plentiful.

pot

• n. A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food.
• n. Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly.
• n. (slang) Ruin or deterioration.
• n. (historical) An iron hat with a broad brim worn as a helmet.
• n. (rail transport) A pot-shaped non-conducting (usually ceramic) stand that supports an electrified rail…
• n. (gambling) The money available to be won in a hand of poker or a round of other games of chance; (figuratively)…
• n. (Britain, horse-racing, slang) A favorite: a heavily-backed horse.
• n. (sports) The act of causing a ball to fall into a pocket in cue sports such as billiards.
• n. (slang) Clipping of potbelly: a pot-shaped belly, a paunch.
• n. (slang) Clipping of potshot: a haphazard shot; an easy or cheap shot.
• n. (chiefly East Midlands, Yorkshire) A plaster cast.
• n. (historical) Alternative form of pott: a former size of paper, 12.5 × 15 inches.
• v. To put (something) into a pot.
• v. To preserve by bottling or canning.
• v. (cue sports) To cause a ball to fall into a pocket.
• v. (cue sports) To be capable of being potted.
• v. (transitive) To shoot with a firearm.
• v. (intransitive, dated) To take a pot shot, or haphazard shot, with a firearm.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To secure; gain; win; bag.
• v. (Britain) To send someone to gaol, expeditiously.
• v. (obsolete, dialect, Britain) To tipple; to drink.
• v. (transitive) To drain.
• v. (transitive, Britain) To seat a person, usually a young child, onto a potty or toilet, typically during…
• v. (chiefly East Midlands) To apply a plaster cast to a broken limb.
• n. (slang, uncountable) Marijuana.
• n. (slang, electronics) A simple electromechanical device used to control resistance or voltage (often to…
• n. (role-playing games) Clipping of potion.

sight

• n. (in the singular) The ability to see.
• n. The act of seeing; perception of objects by the eye; view.
• n. Something seen.
• n. Something worth seeing; a spectacle.
• n. A device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target.
• n. A small aperture through which objects are to be seen, and by which their direction is settled or ascertained.
• n. (now colloquial) a great deal, a lot; frequently used to intensify a comparative.
• n. In a drawing, picture, etc., that part of the surface, as of paper or canvas, which is within the frame…
• n. (obsolete) The instrument of seeing; the eye.
• n. Mental view; opinion; judgment.
• v. (transitive) To register visually.
• v. (transitive) To get sight of (something).
• v. (transitive) To apply sights to; to adjust the sights of; also, to give the proper elevation and direction…
• v. (transitive) To take aim at.

slew

• n. (US) A large amount.
• n. The act, or process of slaying.
• n. A device used for slaying.
• n. A change of position.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To rotate or turn something about its axis.
• v. (transitive) To veer a vehicle.
• v. (transitive) To insert extra ticks or skip some ticks of a clock to slowly correct its time.
• v. (intransitive) To pivot.
• v. (intransitive) To skid.
• v. (transitive, rail transport) to move something (usually a railway line) sideways.
• v. (transitive, Britain, slang) To make a public mockery of someone through insult or wit.
• v. simple past tense of slay.
• n. A wet place; a river inlet.

spate

• n. A river flood; an overflow or inundation.
• n. A sudden rush or increase.

stack

• n. (heading) A pile.
• n. A smokestack.
• n. (heading) In digital computing.
• n. (mathematics) A generalization of schemes in algebraic geometry and of sheaves.
• n. (geology) A coastal landform, consisting of a large vertical column of rock in the sea.
• n. (library) Compactly spaced bookshelves used to house large collections of books.
• n. (figuratively) A large amount of an object.
• n. (military) A pile of rifles or muskets in a cone shape.
• n. (poker) The amount of money a player has on the table.
• n. (heading) In architecture.
• n. (Australia, slang) A fall or crash, a prang.
• n. (bodybuilding) A blend of various dietary supplements or anabolic steroids with supposed synergistic benefits.
• v. (transitive) To arrange in a stack, or to add to an existing stack.
• v. (transitive, card games) To arrange the cards in a deck in a particular manner.
• v. (transitive, poker) To take all the money another player currently has on the table.
• v. (transitive) To deliberately distort the composition of (an assembly, committee, etc.).
• v. (transitive, US, Australia, slang) To crash; to fall.

transport

• v. To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey.
• v. (historical) To deport to a penal colony.
• v. (figuratively) To move (someone) to strong emotion; to carry away.
• n. An act of transporting; conveyance.
• n. The state of being transported by emotion; rapture.
• n. A vehicle used to transport (passengers, mail, freight, troops etc.).
• n. (Canada) A tractor-trailer.
• n. The system of transporting passengers, etc. in a particular region; the vehicles used in such a system.
• n. A device that moves recording tape across the read/write heads of a tape recorder or video recorder etc.
• n. (historical) A deported convict.

travel

• v. (intransitive) To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place…
• v. (intransitive) To pass from here to there; to move or transmit; to go from one place to another.
• v. (intransitive, basketball) To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball.
• v. (transitive) To travel throughout (a place).
• v. (transitive) To force to journey.
• v. (obsolete) To labour; to travail.
• n. The act of traveling.
• n. pl A series of journeys.
• n. pl An account of one's travels.
• n. The activity or traffic along a route or through a given point.
• n. The working motion of a piece of machinery; the length of a mechanical stroke.
• n. (obsolete) Labour; parturition; travail.

wad

• n. An amorphous, compact mass.
• n. A substantial pile (normally of money).
• n. A soft plug or seal, particularly as used between the powder and pellets in a shotgun cartridge.
• n. (slang) A sandwich.
• n. (slang, vulgar) An ejaculation of semen.
• n. (mineralogy) Any black manganese oxide or hydroxide mineral rich rock in the oxidized zone of various…
• v. To crumple or crush into a compact, amorphous shape or ball.
• v. (Ulster) To wager.
• v. To insert or force a wad into.
• v. To stuff or line with some soft substance, or wadding, like cotton.