cotton vs cloth

cotton and cloth both are nouns.

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

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

cotton: fabric woven from cotton fibers
cloth: artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers

Other hypernyms of cotton include fabric, material, textile.

cotton (noun)	cloth (noun)
fabric woven from cotton fibers	artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers
thread made of cotton fibers
erect bushy mallow plant or small tree bearing bolls containing seeds with many long hairy fibers
soft silky fibers from cotton plants in their raw state

cotton (verb)	cloth (verb)
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