different between fabric vs camelhair

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

Alternative forms

• camel hair
• camel's hair

Noun

camelhair (countable and uncountable, plural camelhairs)

1. The soft hair of a camel.
2. A substitute for this hair.
   • 1993, Philip Ward, Panama hats, crocodile tears and other common fallacies (page 24)

     Camelhair brushes are made for artists and architects from the hair of the tails of Russian squirrels.

3. A soft fabric made from this hair.

Quotations

• 1834 George Long - The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge

  It must be applied to the whole specimen by means of a camelhair pencil.

• 2005 Wu Ming - 54

  Lucania wrapped himself up in his camelhair coat and went on smoking.

Anagrams

• chimaeral