fabric

English Online Dictionary. What means fabric‎? What does fabric mean?

English

Alternative forms

• fabrick (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from French fabrique, from Latin fabrica (“a workshop, art, trade, product of art, structure, fabric”), from faber (“artisan, workman”). Doublet of forge, borrowed from Old French.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfæb.ɹɪk/

Noun

fabric (countable and uncountable, plural fabrics)

1. (now rare) An edifice or building.
2. (archaic) The act of constructing, construction, fabrication.

   • Tithe was received by the bishop […] for the fabric of the churches for the poor.

3. (archaic) The structure of anything, the manner in which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship, texture, make.

4. The physical material of a building.

5. The framework underlying a structure.

6. A material made of fibers, a textile or cloth.

7. The texture of a cloth.
8. (petrology) The appearance of crystalline grains in a rock.
9. (computing) Interconnected nodes that look like a textile fabric when diagrammed.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:fabric

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Irish: fabraic

Translations

Verb

fabric (third-person singular simple present fabrics, present participle fabricking, simple past and past participle fabricked)

1. (transitive) To cover with fabric.

See also

• Appendix:Fabrics

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfabrik]

Verb

fabric

1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of fabrica