Fleece vs. Wool

Fleecenoun

(uncountable) Hair or wool of a sheep or similar animal

Fleecenoun

(uncountable) Insulating skin with the wool attached

Fleecenoun

(countable) A textile similar to velvet, but with a longer pile that gives it a softness and a higher sheen.

Fleecenoun

(countable) An insulating wooly jacket

Fleecenoun

(roofing) Mat or felts composed of fibers, sometimes used as a membrane backer.

Fleecenoun

Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece.

Fleecenoun

The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.

Fleeceverb

(transitive) To con or trick (someone) out of money.

Fleeceverb

(transitive) To shear the fleece from (a sheep or other animal).

Fleeceverb

(transitive) To cover with, or as if with, wool.

Fleecenoun

The entire coat of wool that covers a sheep or other similar animal; also, the quantity shorn from a sheep, or animal, at one time.

Fleecenoun

Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece.

Fleecenoun

The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.

Fleeceverb

To deprive of a fleece, or natural covering of wool.

Fleeceverb

To strip of money or other property unjustly, especially by trickery or fraud; to bring to straits by oppressions and exactions.

Fleeceverb

To spread over as with wool.

Fleecenoun

the wool of a sheep or similar animal

Fleecenoun

tanned skin of a sheep with the fleece left on; used for clothing

Fleecenoun

a soft bulky fabric with deep pile; used chiefly for clothing

Fleecenoun

outer coat of especially sheep and yaks

Fleeceverb

rip off; ask an unreasonable price

Fleeceverb

shear the wool from;

Fleecenoun

the woolly covering of a sheep or goat

Fleecenoun

the wool shorn from a sheep in a single piece at one time

Fleecenoun

a representation of a fleece suspended from a ring.

Fleecenoun

a soft warm fabric with a texture similar to sheep's wool, used as a lining material

Fleecenoun

a jacket or other garment made from a fleece fabric.

Fleeceverb

obtain a great deal of money from (someone), typically by overcharging or swindling them

Fleeceverb

cover as if with a fleece

Woolnoun

The hair of the sheep, llama and some other ruminants.

Woolnoun

A cloth or yarn made from the wool of sheep.

Woolnoun

Anything with a texture like that of wool.

Woolnoun

A fine fiber obtained from the leaves of certain trees, such as firs and pines.

Woolnoun

(obsolete) Short, thick hair, especially when crisped or curled.

Woolnoun

yarn (including that which is made from synthetic fibers.)

Woolnoun

The soft and curled, or crisped, species of hair which grows on sheep and some other animals, and which in fineness sometimes approaches to fur; - chiefly applied to the fleecy coat of the sheep, which constitutes a most essential material of clothing in all cold and temperate climates.

Woolnoun

Short, thick hair, especially when crisped or curled.

Woolnoun

A sort of pubescence, or a clothing of dense, curling hairs on the surface of certain plants.

Woolnoun

a fabric made from the hair of sheep

Woolnoun

fiber sheared from animals (such as sheep) and twisted into yarn for weaving

Woolnoun

outer coat of especially sheep and yaks

Woolnoun

the fine, soft curly or wavy hair forming the coat of a sheep, goat, or similar animal, especially when shorn and prepared for use in making cloth or yarn

Woolnoun

yarn or textile fibre made from wool

Woolnoun

the soft underfur or down of some mammals

Woolnoun

a metal or mineral made into a mass of fine fibres

Wool

Wool is the textile fibre obtained from sheep and other animals, including cashmere and mohair from goats, qiviut from muskoxen, hide and fur clothing from bison, angora from rabbits, and other types of wool from camelids.Wool consists of protein together with a small percentage of lipids. In this regard it is chemically quite distinct from the more dominant textile, cotton, which is mainly cellulose.