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| NOUN: | 1. Slang. Articles worn to cover the body. Used in plural: apparel, attire, clothes, clothing, dress, garment (used in plural), habiliment (often used in plural), raiment. Informal : dud (used in plural), tog (used in plural). See PUT ON. 2. A very fine continuous strand: fiber, fibril, filament. See THING. 3. Something that suggests the continuousness of a fine continuous filament: skein, strand. See CONTINUE. | | VERB: | To put (objects) onto a fine continuous filament: string. See ORDER.
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