fabric

[ fab-rik ]
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noun
  1. a cloth made by weaving, knitting, or felting fibers: woolen fabrics.

  2. the texture of the woven, knitted, or felted material: cloth of a soft, pliant fabric.

  1. framework; structure: the fabric of society.

  2. a building; edifice.

  3. the method of construction.

  4. the act of constructing, especially of a church building.

  5. the maintenance of such a building.

  6. Petrography. the spatial arrangement and orientation of the constituents of a rock.

Origin of fabric

1
1475–85; (<Middle French fabrique) <Latin fabrica craft, especially metalworking or building, workshop. See forge1

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British Dictionary definitions for fabric

fabric

/ (ˈfæbrɪk) /


noun
  1. any cloth made from yarn or fibres by weaving, knitting, felting, etc

  2. the texture of a cloth

  1. a structure or framework: the fabric of society

  2. a style or method of construction

  3. rare a building

  4. the texture, arrangement, and orientation of the constituents of a rock

Origin of fabric

1
C15: from Latin fabrica workshop, from faber craftsman

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