batiste vs cloth

batiste and cloth both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
batiste	Yes	No	No	No
cloth	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, cloth is a hypernym of batiste; that is, cloth is a word with a broader meaning than batiste:

batiste: a thin plain-weave cotton or linen fabric; used for shirts or dresses
cloth: artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers

Other hypernyms of batiste include fabric, material, textile.

batiste (noun)	cloth (noun)
a thin plain-weave cotton or linen fabric; used for shirts or dresses	artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers