fabric

English

Alternative forms

• fabrick(obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed fromFrenchfabrique,fromLatinfabrica(“a workshop, art, trade, product of art, structure, fabric”),fromfaber(“artisan, workman”).Doubletofforge,borrowed from Old French.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/ˈfæb.ɹɪk/

• Audio(US):

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Noun

fabric(countableanduncountable,pluralfabrics)

1. (nowrare)Anedificeorbuilding.
   • 1667,John Milton,“Book I”, inParadise Lost.[…],London:[…][Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker[…];[a]nd by Robert Boulter[…];[a]nd Matthias Walker,[…],→OCLC;republished asParadise Lost in Ten Books:[…],London: Basil Montagu Pickering[…],1873,→OCLC:

     Anon out of the earth afabrichuge / Rose like an exhalation.

   • 1791,Ann Radcliffe,The Romance of the Forest,Oxford 1999, page86:

     They withdrew from the gate, as if to depart, but he presently thought he heard them amongst the trees on the other side of thefabric,and soon became convinced that they had not left the abbey.

2. (archaic)The act ofconstructing,construction,fabrication.
   • 1855,Henry Hart Milman,History of Latin Christianity‎^[1]:

     Tithe was received by the bishop[…]for thefabricof 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.

   cloth of a beautifulfabric

4. The physical material of a building.

   This church dates back to the 11th century, though the great majority of itsfabricis fifteenth century or later.

5. (figurative)Theframeworkunderlying astructure.

   thefabricof our lives

   thefabricof the universe

6. A material made of fibers, atextileorcloth.

   cottonfabric

7. Thetextureof a cloth.
8. (petrology)The appearance ofcrystallinegrains in arock.
9. (computing)Interconnectednodesthat look like a textile fabric whendiagrammed.

   The Internet is afabricof computers connected by routers.

Synonyms

• See alsoThesaurus:fabric

Derived terms

• fabric softener
• oblique fabric
• self-fabric
• urban fabric

Descendants

• →Irish:fabraic

Translations

edifice, building

• Bulgarian:зда́ние(bg)n(zdánie),постро́йка(bg)f(postrójka)
• Finnish:rakenne(fi),rakennus(fi)
• French:structure(fr)
• Galician:estructura(gl)f
• German:Gebäude(de)n,Bauwerk(de)n
• Greek:δομή(el)f(domí)
• Italian:struttura(it)f,fabbricato(it)m
• Romanian:structură(ro)f
• Russian:структу́ра(ru)f(struktúra),зда́ние(ru)n(zdánije),постро́йка(ru)f(postrójka)

act of constructing

• Bulgarian:строеж(bg)m(stroež)
• Finnish:rakentaminen(fi)
• German:Konstruktion(de)f,Errichtung(de)f
• Russian:строи́тельство(ru)n(stroítelʹstvo)
• Scottish Gaelic:dèanamhm

structure of anything

• Finnish:rakenne(fi)
• German:Muster(de)n,Textur(de)f,Komposition(de)f

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:byggestenm,struktur(no)m

• Polish:struktura(pl)f
• Portuguese:estrutura(pt)f,rede(pt)f
• Russian:структу́ра(ru)f(struktúra)

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:ткані́наf(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:Chức vật／Chức vật(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,téximom,estofom
• Georgian:ქსოვილი(ksovili)
• German:Gewebe(de)n,Textil(de)n,Stoff(de)m
• Greek:ύφασμα(el)n(ýfasma)

  Ancient:ὕφασμαn(húphasma)

• Hebrew:בַּד(he)m(bad)
• Hindi:कपड़ा(hi)m(kapṛā)
• Hungarian:textil(hu),szövet(hu),anyag(hu),kelme(hu)
• Icelandic:efni(is)n
• Indonesian:kain(id),tekstil(id)
• Irish:fabraicf
• Italian:tessuto(it)m
• Japanese:Chức vật(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:ткаенинаf(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:Zeichn
• Polish:materiał(pl)m,tkanina(pl)f
• Portuguese:pano(pt)m,tecido(pt)m
• Romanian:țesătură(ro)f,material țesutn,textile(ro)npl
• Russian:ткань(ru)f(tkanʹ),материа́л(ru)m(materiál),мате́рия(ru)f(matérija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic:тканинаf,материјалm,штофm

  Roman:tkanina(sh)f,materijal(sh)m,štof(sh)m

• Slovak:tkaninaf
• Slovene:tkanina(sl)f,blagon
• 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:کپڑاm(kapṛā)
• Uzbek:gazlama(uz),gazmol(uz),mato(uz),materiya(uz)
• Vietnamese:vải(vi)
• Welsh:ffabrig(cy)m
• Yiddish:שטאָף(shtof)
• Zazaki:qumas,parçe(diq)

texture of a cloth

• Bulgarian:материя(bg)f(materija)
• Danish:struktur(da)c,sammensætningc
• Dutch:textuur(nl)
• Finnish:kudos(fi)
• Galician:tecedura(gl)f
• German:Fasern(de)n,Struktur(de)f,Texturierungf
• Greek:υφή(el)f(yfí)
• Hebrew:מרקם(he)m(mirkám)
• Hungarian:szövés(hu),anyagszerkezet(hu)
• Italian:tessuto(it)m
• Polish:teksturaf,faktura(pl)f,struktura(pl)f
• Portuguese:tato(pt)m,tecido(pt)
• Russian:мате́рия(ru)f(matérija)
• Scottish Gaelic:dèanamhm

petrology: appearance of crystalline grains in a rock

• Finnish:rakeisuus(fi)

computing: interconnected nodes that look like a textile fabric when diagrammed

• Finnish:verkko(fi)
• German:Netz(de)n,Netzwerk(de)n

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• Norwegian:^{(pleaseverify)}tekstil
• Slovak:^{(pleaseverify)}tkanina,^{(pleaseverify)}látka
• Spanish:^{(pleaseverify)}tejido(es)
• Swedish:^{(pleaseverify)}tyg(sv),^{(pleaseverify)}väv(sv),^{(pleaseverify)}system(sv),^{(pleaseverify)}konstruktion(sv)

Verb

fabric(third-person singular simple presentfabrics,present participlefabricking,simple past and past participlefabricked)

1. (transitive)To cover with fabric.
   • 2016,Mindy Weiss, Lisbeth Levine,The Wedding Book:

     Fabrickingand 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

• Appendix:Fabrics

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):[ˈfabrik]

Verb

fabric

1. first-personsingularpresentindicative/subjunctiveoffabrica