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English
Alternative forms
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
Noun
fabric (countable and uncountable, plural fabrics)
- (now rare) An edifice or building.
1791, Ann Radcliffe, The Romance of the Forest, Oxford 1999, page 86: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.
- (archaic) The act of constructing, construction, fabrication.
1855, Henry Hart Milman, History of Latin Christianity:Tithe was received by the bishop […] for the fabric of the churches for the poor.
- (archaic) 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.
- (figurative) The framework underlying a structure.
the fabric of our lives
the fabric of the universe
- A material made of fibers, a textile or cloth.
cotton fabric
- The texture of a cloth.
- (petrology) The appearance of crystalline grains in a rock.
- (computing) Interconnected nodes that look like a textile fabric when diagrammed.
The Internet is a fabric of computers connected by routers.
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Translations
figurative framework underlying a structure
- Bulgarian: структу́ра (bg) f (struktúra)
- Danish: struktur (da) c, system (da) n
- Dutch: weefsel (nl) n
- Finnish: rakenne (fi), kehikko (fi), kudos (fi)
- French: tissu (fr) m
- German: Bau (de) m, Rohbau (de) m, Struktur (de) f, Bauplan (de) m
- Greek: δομή (el) f (domí), διάρθρωση (el) f (diárthrosi), ιστός (el) m (istós), πλέγμα (el) n (plégma)
- Hebrew: מבנה (he) m (mivné), יסוד (he) m (yesód)
- Hungarian: szövevény (hu), szerkezet (hu)
- Italian: struttura (it) f, tessuto (it) m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: byggesten m, struktur (no) m
- Polish: struktura (pl) f
- Portuguese: estrutura (pt) f, rede (pt) f
- Russian: структу́ра (ru) f (struktúra)
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material made of fibers
- Albanian: pëlhurë (sq) f
- Arabic: قُمَاش (ar) m (qumāš)
- Armenian: կտոր (hy) (ktor), գործվածք (hy) (gorcvackʻ)
- Azerbaijani: parça (az), qumaş, material
- Bashkir: туҡыма (tuqıma)
- Belarusian: ткані́на f (tkanína)
- Bengali: বুনন (bunon)
- Bulgarian: плат (bg) m (plat), тъка́н (bg) f (tǎkán)
- Burmese: ထည် (my) (htany)
- Catalan: tela (ca) f
- Cherokee: ᎠᏄᏬ (anuwo)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 織物/织物 (zh) (zhīwù)
- Czech: tkanina (cs) f
- Danish: stof (da) n
- Dutch: stof (nl) f, weefsel (nl) n
- Estonian: riie, kangas
- Finnish: kangas (fi), tekstiili (fi)
- French: tissu (fr) m, textile (fr) m
- Galician: tea (gl) f, tecido (gl) m, téximo m, estofo m
- Georgian: ქსოვილი (ksovili)
- German: Gewebe (de) n, Textil (de) n, Stoff (de) m
- Greek: ύφασμα (el) n (ýfasma)
- Ancient: ὕφασμα n (húphasma)
- Hebrew: בַּד (he) m (bad)
- Hindi: कपड़ा (hi) m (kapṛā)
- Hungarian: textil (hu), szövet (hu), anyag (hu), kelme (hu)
- Icelandic: efni (is) n
- Irish: fabraic f
- Italian: tessuto (it) m
- Japanese: 織物 (ja) (おりもの, orimono)
- Kazakh: мата (kk) (mata), материя (materiä), материал (material)
- Khmer: ក្រណាត់ (krɑnat)
- Korean: 직물 (ko) (jingmul), 옷감 (ko) (otgam)
- Kyrgyz: кездеме (ky) m (kezdeme), маңыз (ky) m (maŋız), мазмун (ky) m (mazmun), материя (materiya), материал (ky) (material)
- Lao: ຜ້າ (phā)
- Latin: textum
- Latvian: audekls (lv) m
- Lithuanian: medžiaga (lt) f
- Macedonian: ткаенина f (tkaenina)
- Mongolian: бөс (mn) (bös), даавуу (mn) (daavuu)
- Nanai: босо (boso)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: tøy (no) n, stoff (no) n
- Occitan: teissut (oc), tela (oc)
- Persian: پارچه (fa) (pârče), قماش (fa) (qomâš)
- Plautdietsch: Zeich n
- Polish: materiał (pl) m, tkanina (pl) f
- Portuguese: pano (pt) m, tecido (pt) m
- Romanian: țesătură (ro) f, material țesut n, textile (ro) n pl
- Russian: ткань (ru) f (tkanʹ), материа́л (ru) m (materiál), мате́рия (ru) f (matérija)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: тканина f, материјал m, штоф m
- Roman: tkanina (sh) f, materijal (sh) m, štof (sh) m
- Slovak: tkanina f
- Slovene: tkanina (sl) f, blago n
- Southern Altai: бӧс (bös)
- Spanish: tela (es) f, tejido (es) m, género (es) m
- Sranan Tongo: krosi
- Swedish: tyg (sv) n
- Tagalog: tela (tl)
- Tajik: порча (porča), матоъ (tg) (matoʾ), газвор (gazvor), қумош (qumoš)
- Tatar: тукыма (tt) (tuqıma)
- Thai: ผ้า (th) (pâa)
- Turkish: kumaş (tr)
- Turkmen: mata, materiýa
- Ukrainian: ткани́на (uk) f (tkanýna)
- Urdu: کپڑا m (kapṛā)
- Uzbek: gazlama (uz), gazmol (uz), mato (uz), materiya (uz)
- Vietnamese: vải (vi)
- Welsh: ffabrig (cy) m
- Yiddish: שטאָף (shtof)
- Zazaki: qumas, parçe (diq)
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petrology: appearance of crystalline grains in a rock
computing: interconnected nodes that look like a textile fabric when diagrammed
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Verb
fabric (third-person singular simple present fabrics, present participle fabricking, simple past and past participle fabricked)
- (transitive) To cover with fabric.
2016, Mindy Weiss, Lisbeth Levine, The Wedding Book: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.
See also
Romanian
Pronunciation
Verb
fabric
- first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of fabrica