fabric
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fabric
- /ˈfæb.ɹɪk/
Where it comes from
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.
noun fabrics · fabrick
- An edifice or building. Anon out of the earth a fabric huge / Rose like an exhalation.
- The act of constructing, construction, fabrication. Tithe was received by the bishop […] for the fabric of the churches for the poor.
- The structure of anything, the manner in which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship, texture, make. cloth of a beautiful fabric
- The physical material of a building. This church dates back to the 11th century, though the great majority of its fabric is fifteenth century or later.
- The framework underlying a structure. the fabric of our lives
- A material made of fibers; especially, a woven one. Near-synonym: cloth (not always differentiated)
- The texture of a cloth.
- The appearance of crystalline grains in a rock.
- The fired clay material of pottery artifacts.
- Interconnected nodes that look like a textile fabric when diagrammed. The Internet is a fabric of computers connected by routers.
verb fabrics · fabricking · fabricked · fabrick
- To cover with fabric. 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.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: framework, textile, cloth, material, edifice, architecture, framing, stuff, texture, canvas, mosaic, structure, set-up, factory, landscape, infrastructure
Translations
Every language
noun edifice, building
| Français | structure |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | Gebäude, Bauwerk |
| Italiano | struttura, fabbricato |
| Ελληνικά | δομή domí |
| Română | structură |
| Русский | структу́ра struktúra, зда́ние zdánije, постро́йка postrójka |
noun act of constructing
| Deutsch | Konstruktion, Errichtung |
|---|---|
| Русский | строи́тельство stroítelʹstvo |
noun structure of anything
| Deutsch | Muster, Textur, Komposition |
|---|
noun figurative framework underlying a structure
| Español | entramado |
|---|---|
| Português | estrutura, rede |
| Français | tissu |
| Deutsch | Bau, Rohbau, Struktur, Bauplan |
| Italiano | struttura, tessuto |
| Ελληνικά | δομή domí, διάρθρωση diárthrosi, ιστός istós, πλέγμα plégma |
| Русский | структу́ра struktúra |
| עברית | מבנה mivné, יסוד yesód |
noun material made of fibers
| Español | tela, tejido, género |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 직물 jingmul, 옷감 otgam |
| 日本語 | 織物 orimono |
| 中文 | 織物 /织物 zhīwù |
| हिन्दी | कपड़ा kapṛā, पारचा pārcā |
| Português | pano, tecido |
| Français | tissu, textile |
| Deutsch | Gewebe, Textil, Stoff |
| Italiano | tessuto |
| Ελληνικά | ύφασμα ýfasma |
| Română | țesătură, material țesut, textile |
| Русский | ткань tkanʹ, материа́л materiál, мате́рия matérija |
| Tiếng Việt | vải |
| العربية | قُمَاش qumāš, نَسِيج nasīj |
| עברית | בַּד bad |
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title = {fabric},
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