{
  "id": "clothing.apparel",
  "term": "clothing",
  "sense": "apparel",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 15,
  "arena": "clothing",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "A set of stuff with a structure that covers a body.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "stuff.material",
      "structure.arrangement",
      "cover.object",
      "body.physical",
      "sets.grouped"
    ],
    "interaction": "The stuff with a structure does cover a body.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "worn protection",
      "social identity marker",
      "modular body enclosure"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The spacesuit worn by Neil Armstrong during Apollo 11 maintained oxygen pressure and temperature around his body for 2 hours on the Moon.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "A woolen toga draped over a Roman senator’s frame in 50 BCE conformed to social and climatic demands while covering his torso and limbs.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "A Brazilian jiu-jitsu gi withstands repeated pulling and twisting during sparring, its cotton weave and stitching holding shape through 90-minute training sessions.",
      "domain": "everyday life"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "items.object",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "body.physical",
      "note": "medium-for",
      "type": "medium-for"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "clothe",
    "clothed",
    "clothes",
    "clothing"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added 'sets.grouped' to components since 'set' in definition implies grouping; all other components are directly constitutive. Definition remained correct and minimal."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-clothing.apparel"
}