different between fabric vs grosgrain
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
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grosgrain
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French gros-grain (“coarse grain, a strong fabric”), from gros (“coarse”) + grain (“grain”). Doublet of grogram, which was borrowed earlier.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /???????e?n/
Noun
grosgrain (countable and uncountable, plural grosgrains)
- A silk fabric having narrow, horizontal ribs.
- A close-woven fabric (usually made from silk or rayon) having narrow horizontal ribs.
- A ribbon made of this fabric.
Translations
Further reading
- grosgrain at OneLook Dictionary Search
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