different between garment vs interlining

English

Etymology

From Middle English garment, garement, garnement, from Old French garnement, guarnement, from garnir (“to garnish, adorn, fortify”), from Frankish. More at garnish.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /????.m?nt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /????.m?nt/
• Hyphenation: gar?ment

Noun

garment (plural garments)

1. A single item of clothing.

   • This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. […] Indeed, all his features were in large mold, like the man himself, as though he had come from a day when skin garments made the proper garb of men.

2. (Mormonism) Short for temple garment.

Derived terms

• foundation garment
• touch the hem of someone's garment

Related terms

• garnish
• garrison

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:clothing

Translations

Verb

garment (third-person singular simple present garments, present participle garmenting, simple past and past participle garmented)

1. (transitive) To clothe in a garment.

Translations

Further reading

• garment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• garment in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• garment at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• margent

English

Etymology

inter- +? lining

Noun

interlining (plural interlinings)

1. A cloth lining between the outer and inner layers of a garment.
2. Correction or alteration by writing between the lines; interlineation.

   • And the interlinings seemed to be writ in a hand different from that in which the papers were writ

3. The scheduling of vehicles to operate more than one route, or the selling of tickets for a trip across multiple carriers

Synonyms

• interfacing

Related terms

(cloth lining):

• interliner

Verb

interlining

1. present participle of interline