fabric
Meaning of fabric
noun
- cloth or other material produced by weaving or knitting fibres.
heavy cream fabric
stretch fabrics
- the walls, floor, and roof of a building.
decay and neglect are slowly eating away at the building's fabric
late 15th century: from French fabrique, from Latin fabrica ‘something skilfully produced’, from faber ‘worker in metal, stone, etc.’ The word originally denoted a building, later a machine, the general sense being ‘something made’, hence fabric (sense 1) (mid 18th century, originally denoting any manufactured material). fabric (sense 2) dates from the mid 17th century.
Information about fabric
- It is a name.
- The plural form of fabric is: fabrics.
- Languages in which fabric is used:
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CatalanHyphenation of fabric
fab-ric
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- fabric is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
fabric synonyms
Meaning cloth:
Meaning framework:
Meaning matter, material, articles, or activities of a specified or indeterminate kind that are being referred to, indicated, or implied:
Meaning rich or fine material of a delicate or gauzy texture:
Meaning a network of fine threads constructed by a spider from fluid secreted by its spinnerets, used to catch its prey:
Meaning the arrangement of and relations between the parts or elements of something complex:
Meaning a basic structure that underlies or supports a system, concept, or text:
Meaning the visible shape or configuration of something:
Meaning a body of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is acknowledged to be governed:
Meaning the nature of something's ingredients or constituents; the way in which a whole or mixture is made up:
Meaning the action of building something, typically a large structure:
Meaning an organized group of people with a particular purpose, such as a business or government department:
Meaning the basic physical and organizational structures and facilities (e.g. buildings, roads, power supplies) needed for the operation of a society or enterprise:
Meaning the lowest load-bearing part of a building, typically below ground level:
Meaning a system of parts working together in a machine; a piece of machinery:
Meaning the bodily structure of an organism:
Meaning the intrinsic nature or indispensable quality of something, especially something abstract, which determines its character:
Translation of fabric
Words that rhyme with fabric
cerebric, uncerebric, clofibric, fibric, Albric, Cambric, Cimbric, Lambric, cambric, lumbric, cobric, lubric, rubric
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