different between fabric vs drogue

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

Origin uncertain; probably related to drag in some way.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d????/
• Rhymes: -???

Noun

drogue (plural drogues)

1. (whaling) A floating object attached to the end of a harpoon line to slow a whale down and prevent it from diving.
   • 1993, Will Self, My Idea of Fun:

     through the sash window I could see the black truck pulling up the drive towards the main road, the silver caravan coming behind like a drogue that was preventing the gypsies from submerging, escaping into the very centre of the earth.

2. (nautical) A type of bag pulled behind a boat to stop it from broaching to.
3. (aeronautics) A conical parachute used as a brake for some kinds of aircraft, or as a means of extracting and deploying a larger parachute.
4. (aeronautics) A conical basket or device used variously as a target for gunnery practice, and as a docking point for aerial refuelling.
5. A wind cone.

Synonyms

• (conical parachute): drag parachute, drag chute, drogue chute, drogue parachute

Translations

See also

• drag parachute

Anagrams

• drouge, gourde, rogued, rouged

French

Etymology

First attested in Middle French circa 1462, probably from Middle Dutch droge (modern Dutch droog).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d???/

Noun

drogue f (plural drogues)

1. drug

Derived terms

• drogue douce
• drogue dure
• se droguer
• droguiste

Descendants

• ? Danish: droge
• ? German: Droge
• ? Norwegian Bokmål: droge
• ? Norwegian Nynorsk: droge

Further reading

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

Middle French

Etymology

Middle Dutch droge (modern Dutch droog).

Noun

drogue f (plural drogues)

1. drug

Descendants

• French: drogue
  • ? Danish: droge
  • ? German: Droge
  • ? Norwegian Bokmål: droge
  • ? Norwegian Nynorsk: droge
• ? Middle English: drogge
  • English: drug
  • ? Irish: druga

Norman

Etymology

Either via French (or Middle French) drogue, or borrowed directly from Middle Dutch droge.

Noun

drogue f (plural drogues)

1. (Jersey) drug

Derived terms

• drodgi (“to drug”)
• drogu'thie (“drugging”)

Spanish

Verb

drogue

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of drogar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of drogar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of drogar.