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fabric

noun
/ˈfæb.ɹɪk/

Etymology

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

  1. derived from fabrica
  2. borrowed from fabrique

Definitions

  1. An edifice or building.

    • Anon out of the earth a fabric huge / Rose like an exhalation.
    • 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.

  2. The act of constructing, construction, fabrication.

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

  3. The structure of anything, the manner in which the parts of a thing are united

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

    • cloth of a beautiful fabric
  4. ›+ 8 more definitions

    1. 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.

    2. The framework underlying a structure.

      • the fabric of our lives
      • Only with the second actor, can plot, […] the reaction of man on man, be knit into the very fabric of dramatic art.

    3. A material made of fibers

      A material made of fibers; especially, a woven one.

      • Near-synonym: cloth (not always differentiated)
      • cotton fabric

    4. The texture of a cloth.

    5. The appearance of crystalline grains in a rock.

    6. The fired clay material of pottery artifacts.

    7. Interconnected nodes that look like a textile fabric when diagrammed.

      • The Internet is a fabric of computers connected by routers.

    8. To cover with fabric.

      • 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.

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Derived

biofabric, couching fabric, fabric conditioner, fabricky, fabricless, fabriclike, fabric softener, geofabric, ichnofabric, microfabric, nanofabric, nonfabric, oblique fabric, self-fabric, stretch fabric, urban fabric

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at fabric. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01fabric02workmanship03skill04acquired05birth06environment07ecosystem08network

A definitional loop anchored at fabric. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at fabric

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA