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Answer for the clue "Fabric that breathes ", 4 letters:
mesh

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE fine ▪ A framework of iron bars is placed across the top and this supports fine mesh netting. ▪ Strain stock through a fine mesh strainer, divide stock among several small bowls or containers to speed cooling, ...

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v. keep engaged; "engaged the gears" [syn: engage , lock , operate ] [ant: disengage ] coordinate in such a way that all parts work together effectively [syn: interlock ] work together in harmony entangle or catch in (or as if in) a mesh [syn: enmesh , ...

Usage examples of mesh.

Sleek in some lines and blunt in others, it resembled the F-42, an experimental Air Force fighter unmatched in stealth, maneuverability, and weapons, with a thrust that well exceeded its weight, and aeroelasticity that allowed its wings to alter according to commands from its onboard mesh.

Among the molluscs and zoophytes, I found in the meshes of the net several species of alcyonarians, echini, hammers, spurs, dials, cerites, and hyalleae.

A giant sheet of folded polysaccharide, a complex mesh of interlinked pentose and hexose sugars hung with alkyl and amide side chains.

The archway which led into the apse to the right of the well was curtained by falls of fine black plastic mesh.

Pandaras shouted and ran, flinging himself in a furious panic through the black mesh curtains which divided the apse from the main part of the temple.

On the far side of the apse, the curtain of black mesh stirred as someone pushed it aside.

He was repeating it for a third time when the black mesh curtain which divided the right-hand apse from the atrium was struck aside.

The centres were of coarse babiche with a large mesh, so as to pick up the least amount of snow, and since the meshing entered the frame by holes and was not whipped round it, the wooden surface was as smooth as skis.

She is chained in such a way as to preclude movement which might tear at the mesh or break it, thus making possible the entry of urts, which might eat at her, lowering her price, and to preclude her tearing hysterically with her hands and fingernails at her own body, bloodying herself, perhaps scarring herself, again lowering her price, in her attempt to obtain relief from the bites and itching consequent upon the infestation and depredation of the numerous, almost constantly active ship lice.

The tumult of luxury entertained him: the blasts of chypre from the birds, the hissing farthingales and Hainault lace, the net stockings and gem stuck pumps, the headdresses starched and spangled and meshed and fluted, the plucked eyebrows and frizzled hair, the lynx, genet and Calabrian sable stinking in the wet, the gauzy cache-nez drawn over nose and chin in the gardens and referred to in the careless vulgarity of the mode as coffins a roupies.

Pale-green duckweed covered the surface of the water like a net in whose delicate meshes were caught lotuses.

In worming against her warmth he has pulled her dress up from her knees, and their repulsive breadth and pallor, laid bare defenselessly, superimposed upon the tiny, gamely gritted teeth the boy exposed for him, this old whiteness strained through this fine mesh, make a milk that feels to Eccles like his own blood.

Hours later the glass was replaced, and electrified mesh bolted to the wall.

Rumors drifted through the world meshes of the Alley, a hidden conclave of biomech geniuses involved in the forma black market.

He was satisfied that either George Furbish or The Shadow would enter the twofold mesh.