plaid vs cloth

plaid and cloth both are nouns.

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

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

plaid: a cloth having a crisscross design
cloth: artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers

Other hypernyms of plaid include fabric, material, textile.

plaid (noun)	cloth (noun)
a cloth having a crisscross design	artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers