Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of several synthetic textile fibers produced by forcing a cellulose solution through fine spinnerets and solidifying the resulting filaments.
- n. A fabric so woven or knit.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A beam or ray.
- n. The radius of area of action (of a fort, a ship, an array, or a fleet).
Wiktionary
- n. alternative spelling of raion.
- n. A manufactured regenerated cellulosic fiber.
- n. region, rayon (second level subdivision unit in Ukraine, Russia and other ex-USSR countries).
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Ray; beam.
- n. A synthetic fiber, made of thin filaments of regenerated cellulose, extruded from a solution of viscose. Called also
viscose fiber andviscose rayon fiber . - n. a textile fabric made from rayon{1}.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a synthetic silklike fabric
Etymologies
- Perhaps from French rayon, ray of light (from its sheen), from rai, from Old French; see ray1.
Examples
“Also known to many designers as “art silk,” rayon is a semi-synthetic fabric that is a great alternative to silk.”
“The one major drawback of rayon is that it will wrinkle so it is better to use it on a surface that won’t have a lot of people lounging on it.”
“The same shallow thinking can be applied to rayon, which is a generic term for nearly any natural cellulose fiber that's processed to make fabrics.”
“No, it was really easier work on the nylon than it was on the rayon, because the rayon was a soft yarn and fussed up.”
“We ran a post back in 2007 asking the question Is Bamboo Clothing Truly Green?, where we referenced the chemical solvent used to make viscose (also known as rayon) from raw bamboo material.”
“US: Retailers warned for mislabelling rayon as "bamboo”
Daily apparel and textile news and comment - from just-style.com
“They were typically made of silk or artificial silk (now known as rayon), and after 1939 with nylon.”
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“Azerbaijani lands encircling Karabakh, seven administrative regions, called rayon, are under French occupation since 1993.”
“When companies sell products woven from man-made fibers, such as rayon, it is important that they accurately label and advertise those products—both with respect to the fibers they use and to the qualities those fibers possess, said David Vladeck, director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection, in the release.”
“As for wearing knit dresses with a bit of a tummy--I have a bit of a tummy and find I can wear knit dresses in a drapey knit fabric such as rayon lycra if the dresses are fitted at the top and a-line in the skirt with perhaps a midriff band and/or ties at the waist.”
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rays & x-rays
raised rays
cow-nosed ray, x-ray, roentgenogram, radiogram, sunray, tomograph, whipparee, oxeye, thulium, raster, moonbeam, robinia and 86 more...
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