fabric
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: Borrowed from French fabrique, from Latin fabrica (“a workshop, art, trade, product of art, structure, fabric”), from faber (“artisan, workman”). Doublet of fabrica, borrowed from Latin, and forge, borrowed from Old French.
Inflected forms:
form: fabrics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fabrick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: fabrics
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fabricking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fabricked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fabricked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: fabrick
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: An edifice or building.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: Anon out of the earth a fabric huge / Rose like an exhalation.
They withdrew from the gate, as if to depart, but he presently thought he heard them amongst the trees on the other side of the fabric, and soon became convinced that they had not left the abbey.
gloss: The act of constructing, construction, fabrication.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: Tithe was received by the bishop […] for the fabric of the churches for the poor.
gloss: The structure of anything, the manner in which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship, texture, make.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: cloth of a beautiful fabric
gloss: The physical material of a building.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: This church dates back to the 11th century, though the great majority of its fabric is fifteenth century or later.
gloss: The framework underlying a structure.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: the fabric of our lives
Only with the second actor, can plot, […] the reaction of man on man, be knit into the very fabric of dramatic art.
I thought the best match of sympathy with reality was in Fritz Matthies' Pauline's Birthday or the Beast of Notre Dame. It was a surprise, not just because of its ending, but because there was a real fabric in the characters' relationships. In this, it outweighs The Deputy and all its high drama.
gloss: A material made of fibers; especially, a woven one.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Near-synonym: cloth (not always differentiated)
cotton fabric
gloss: The texture of a cloth.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The appearance of crystalline grains in a rock.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The fired clay material of pottery artifacts.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Interconnected nodes that look like a textile fabric when diagrammed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The Internet is a fabric of computers connected by routers.
gloss: To cover with fabric.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Fabricking and Carpeting a Room. If your ballroom's walls are in need of a paint job, or the space feels cavernous, or your tent is just looking too bare, you can have the ceiling and walls draped with fabric to create an intimate enclave.
Synonyms: fabric
cloth
textile
Related words: fur
leather
:Category:Fabrics
:Appendix:Fabrics
Derived words: biofabric
couching fabric
fabric conditioner
fabricky
fabricless
fabriclike
fabric softener
geofabric
ichnofabric
microfabric
nanofabric
nonfabric
oblique fabric
self-fabric
stretch fabric
urban fabric
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