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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
polyester
noun
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■ VERB
make
▪ It's made from 100% easy-care polyester and measures 24in from nape of neck to hem.
▪ That poses a risk for some companies, such as Wellman, which does little besides make polyester.
▪ Wellman makes several polyester products and is a top plastics recycler.
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▪ Among the synthetic fibres used in furnishing fabrics are nylon, polyester and acrylic.
▪ But most of them wore Western dress: polyester trousers, anoraks and sneakers.
▪ Every Friday he arrived on the trading floor in a tan polyester jacket and black chinos.
▪ He owned exactly four suits, all polyester.
▪ He wore polyester suits, made a five-figure income, and worked one-figure hours.
▪ It's made from 100% easy-care polyester and measures 24in from nape of neck to hem.
▪ New factories that can make billions of pounds of polyester are opening or planned.
▪ With a sewing machine and polyester thread to match the garment, set two rows of straight stitches by the tacking stitches.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
polyester

1929, formed from polymer + ester. Polyester fiber was discovered 1941.

Wiktionary
polyester

a. Of, or consisting of polyesters n. 1 Any polymer whose monomers are linked together by ester bonds 2 A material or fabric made from polyester polymer

WordNet
polyester
  1. n. any of numerous synthetic resins; they are light and strong and weather resistant

  2. a complex ester used for making fibers or resins or plastics or as a plasticizer

  3. any of a large class of synthetic fabrics

Wikipedia
Polyester (film)

Polyester is a 1981 American black comedy film directed, produced, and written by John Waters, and starring Divine, Tab Hunter, Edith Massey, and Mink Stole. It was filmed in Waters' native Baltimore, Maryland, and features a gimmick called "Odorama", whereby viewers could smell what they saw on screen through scratch and sniff cards.

The film is a satirical look at suburban life involving divorce, abortion, adultery, alcoholism, foot fetishism, and the Religious Right.

Polyester

Polyester is a category of polymers that contain the ester functional group in their main chain. As a specific material, it most commonly refers to a type called polyethylene terephthalate (PET). Polyesters include naturally occurring chemicals, such as in the cutin of plant cuticles, as well as synthetics through step-growth polymerization such as polybutyrate. Natural polyesters and a few synthetic ones are biodegradable, but most synthetic polyesters are not. This material is used very widely in clothing.

Depending on the chemical structure, polyester can be a thermoplastic or thermoset. There are also polyester resins cured by hardeners; however, the most common polyesters are thermoplastics.

Fabrics woven or knitted from polyester thread or yarn are used extensively in apparel and home furnishings, from shirts and pants to jackets and hats, bed sheets, blankets, upholstered furniture and computer mouse mats. Industrial polyester fibers, yarns and ropes are used in tyre reinforcements, fabrics for conveyor belts, safety belts, coated fabrics and plastic reinforcements with high-energy absorption. Polyester fiber is used as cushioning and insulating material in pillows, comforters and upholstery padding. Polyester fabrics are highly stain-resistant— in fact, the only class of dyes which can be used to alter the color of polyester fabric are what are known as disperse dyes.

Polyester fibers are sometimes spun together with natural fibers to produce a cloth with blended properties. Cotton-polyester blends (polycotton) can be strong, wrinkle and tear-resistant, and reduce shrinking. Synthetic fibers in polyester also create materials with water, wind and environmental resistance compared to plant-derived fibers. Cons of cotton and polyester blends include being less breathable than cotton and trapping more moisture while sticking to the skin. They are also less fire resistant and can melt when ignited.

Polyester blends have been renamed so as to suggest their similarity or even superiority to natural fibers (for example, China silk, which is a term in the textiles industry for a 100% polyester fiber woven to resemble the sheen and durability of insect-derived silk).

Polyesters are also used to make bottles, films, tarpaulin, canoes, liquid crystal displays, holograms, filters, dielectric film for capacitors, film insulation for wire and insulating tapes. Polyesters are widely used as a finish on high-quality wood products such as guitars, pianos and vehicle/yacht interiors. Thixotropic properties of spray-applicable polyesters make them ideal for use on open-grain timbers, as they can quickly fill wood grain, with a high-build film thickness per coat. Cured polyesters can be sanded and polished to a high-gloss, durable finish.

Liquid crystalline polyesters are among the first industrially used liquid crystal polymers. They are used for their mechanical properties and heat-resistance. These traits are also important in their application as an abradable seal in jet engines.

Usage examples of "polyester".

Today he was particularly obsessive, wearing a futuretech cleansuit over his polyester knit gym teacher shirt and beltless slacks.

Dawn pulling up the sleeves of the red polyester blouse, examining the tracks where she slammed her speedballs, a mixture of powdered cocaine and Mexican tar heroin.

The Port Authority trollers were the low end of the scale: polyestered punks with CZ rings and 10K gold, not a Cadillac among them.

She pulls up the bottom of one pant leg, unhemmed and unraveling beige polyester, to show her leg wrapped thick with a dirty elastic bandage.

I arrived at the address on Grove Street, just a few blocks from the station, Adler stood out front beneath the streetlight, listening to an elderly woman with her hair in rollers, who wore a shapeless shift of floral polyester and rubber thong sandals in Day-Glo pink.

They walked away from the house site, picking their way through piles of construction materials, some of which, like greenboard, polyester insulation, and composite board, had never before been seen on this world.

For forty years he had been folding tortillas at the same location, and in an identical white polyester guayabera shirt.

The well-to-do wore thermally adaptive clothes for the first time, which left the tonier shopping districts looking as if they had been invaded by aliens in polyester jogging suits and respirators, while the rest of us beetled down the street in bulging parkas or stuck as close as possible to the skywalks.

Then she retraced her steps, stopping in front of a shop window filled with tatty polyester lingerie in large sizes and boldly artificial-looking wigs: pink Afros, platinum blond falls, black-and-white Cruella De Vil tresses.

In an out of date powder blue polyester jump suit and cheap Converse sneakers, Juan Morales was sitting with his feet up on a table in the far corner of the county morgue watching a local news program on a nine inch black and white TV.

Purplestar sweaters, antique pendants, beaded chokers, organic nuts, horoscopes, sciencefiction movies, fourdollar transparent soap, big English cars, Mexican villas, ecology, pink rolling paper, brownies, seaweed with my pork chops, soy noodles, dacron, rayon, orlon acrylic, Fortrel polyester, Lycra spandex, leather, vinyl, suede, velvet, velours, canvas.

The boxed advertisement went on at some length in the teeniest print imaginable, listing their products, which included: asphalt, lumber, lumite, mesh, polyethylene, steel haulers, vinyl-coated polyester, vinyl laminates, tarps, welding curtains, screens, blankets, roll systems, and drop cloths.

The pillows were all the overplump polyester fiberfill kind, because of my father's allergies.

It's a robe ' Pink chiffon polyester, probably, not even her mother would be silly-enough to send a garment that would have to be dry-cleaned every time it was worntrimmed with satin rosebuds, it bore a striking and certainly coincidental resemblance to the Callot Soeurs peignoir.

He wore an open-collared sport shirt that showed wiry brown hair on his flabby chest, and his belly flopped over the belt line of his lime-green polyester trousers.