different between fabric vs fabrication
fabric
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)
- (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.}}
- (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.
- 1855, Henry Hart Milman, History of Latin Christianity[1]:
- (archaic) The structure of anything, the manner in which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship, texture, make.
- The framework underlying a structure.
- A material made of fibers, a textile or cloth.
- (petrology) The appearance of crystalline grains in a rock.
- (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
- first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of fabrica
fabric From the web:
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fabrication
English
Etymology
From Middle French fabrication, from Latin fabricatio
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /fæb???ke???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
fabrication (countable and uncountable, plural fabrications)
- (uncountable) The act of fabricating, framing, or constructing; construction; manufacture
- the fabrication of a bridge, a church, or a government
- (countable) That which is fabricated; a falsehood
- The story is doubtless a fabrication.
- (cooking) The act of cutting up an animal carcass as preparation for cooking; butchery.
Related terms
- fabricate
- fabricating
- fabric
Translations
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fa.b?i.ka.sj??/
Noun
fabrication f (plural fabrications)
- manufacture, manufacturing
- fabrication
- production
fabrication From the web:
- what fabrication means
- what fabrication works best for a suit
- what fabrication shop
- fabrication what does it mean
- what does the word fabricating mean
- what is fabrication in research
- what is fabrication process
- what is fabrication in writing
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