different between fabric vs faille

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 Old French.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e?l

Noun

faille (countable and uncountable, plural failles)

1. A fabric woven from silk, cotton, or rayon with slight ribs.

Translations

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /faj/

Etymology 1

From faillir.

Noun

faille f (plural failles)

1. (seismology) fault
2. flaw

Derived terms

• ligne de faille
• plan de faille
• sans faille

Verb

faille

1. third-person singular present subjunctive of faillir

Etymology 2

From Old French faille. Ultimate origin obscure. Perhaps an Old Frankish borrowing.

Noun

faille f (plural failles)

1. faille (fabric woven from silk)

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

faille

1. third-person singular present subjunctive of falloir

Further reading

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

Irish

Noun

faille f

1. genitive singular of faill

Mutation

Old French

Etymology

Ultimately from the Latin verb fall?.

Noun

faille f (oblique plural failles, nominative singular faille, nominative plural failles)

1. failure

Descendants

• French: faille