fabric

Plural: fabrics

Noun

• Woven, felted, or knitted material, used for clothes or other items.
• artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers
  • "the fabric in the curtains was light and semitransparent"
• the underlying structure
  • "it is part of the fabric of society"
• An edifice or building.
• The act of constructing, construction, fabrication.
• The structure of anything, the manner in which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship, texture, make.
• The physical material of a building.
• The framework underlying a structure.
• A material made of fibers, a textile or cloth.
• The texture of a cloth.
• The appearance of crystalline grains in a rock.
• The fired clay material of pottery artifacts.
• Interconnected nodes that look like a textile fabric when diagrammed.

Verb

• To cover with fabric.

Examples

• cloth of a beautiful fabric
• cotton fabric
• The fabric of his Scrabble strategy unraveled after a few poor plays.
• the fabric of our lives
• the fabric of the universe
• The Internet is a fabric of computers connected by routers.
• This church dates back to the 11th century, though the great majority of its fabric is fifteenth century or later.

Synonyms

cloth, framework, material, textile, fabric

Related Words

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