different between fabric vs angora

English

Alternative forms

• fabrick (obsolete)

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

• IPA^(key): /?fæb.??k/

Noun

fabric (countable and uncountable, plural fabrics)

1. (now rare) An edifice or building.
   • |title=The Romance of the Forest|publisher=Oxford 1999|p=86|text=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. (archaic) The act of constructing, construction, fabrication.
   • 1855, Henry Hart Milman, History of Latin Christianity^[1]:

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

4. The framework underlying a structure.

5. A material made of fibers, a textile or cloth.

6. (petrology) The appearance of crystalline grains in a rock.
7. (computing) Interconnected nodes that look like a textile fabric when diagrammed.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:fabric

Descendants

• ? Irish: fabraic

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Fabrics

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?fabrik]

Verb

fabric

1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of fabrica

English

Etymology

From the name of the city of Ankara in Turkey, from Ancient Greek ?????? (ánkura, “anchor”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æ???????/
• Rhymes: -????

Noun

angora (plural angoras)

1. An angora cat.
2. a goat of a domesticated breed that produces mohair.
3. a rabbit belonging to the Angora rabbit breed, one of the oldest domestic breeds of rabbits in the world, raised chiefly in Europe for its silky and long hair (a subspecies of the European rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus)
4. (uncountable) The hair of angora rabbits or angora goats, used to make textiles.
5. (uncountable) The fabric made from the hair of angora rabbits or angora goats.

Translations

Anagrams

• Aragon, Arango, Argoan, arango, organa

Esperanto

Etymology

angoro +? -a.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /an??ora/
• Hyphenation: an?go?ra
• Rhymes: -ora

Adjective

angora (accusative singular angoran, plural angoraj, accusative plural angorajn)

1. distressed, anguished, of distress, of anguish
   • (Can we date this quote?), Solomon Cins (translator), Kiel ?talo estis hardata (How the Steel Was Tempered / ??? ?????????? ?????) by Nikolai Ostrovsky, Book 2, Chapter 7,

     Li ekamis tiun junan bol?evikon, neniam angoran, ?iam vivplenan, kun bolanta energio, kiu tiel frue perdis sian sanon.

     He had grown to love the young Bolshevik, who, never distressed, always full of life and bubbling with energy, had lost his health at such an early age.

   • (Can we date this quote?), Elena Zaja, Anta?parolo (Preface), in Fajron sentas mi interne by Ulrich Matthias,

     Tio ?ermigas ?e ni la esperon, ke la abismo disiganta ilin de aliaj ne etendi?as fatale, la angorajn nubojn eblas forblovi spite al la sorto per la fervoro kaj forta volo [...]

     This sparked in us the hope that the chasm that separated them from others was not fatally wide, that the clouds of anguish could be blown away, in spite of fate, by fervour and strong will

Finnish

Etymology

< Turkish Angora, the former name of Turkish capital Ankara

Noun

angora

1. angora (hair of angora rabbit)

Declension

Synonyms

• angoravilla

Compounds

• angorakani
• angorakaniini
• angorakissa
• angoralanka
• angorapusero
• angoravilla
• angoravuohi

French

Etymology

From Angora, obsolete form of Ankara, the name of the capital of Turkey.

Noun

angora m (plural angora)

1. angora (all senses)

Further reading

• “angora” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).