different between fabric vs merino

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

• Merino

Etymology

From Spanish merino.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /m???ino?/

Noun

merino (countable and uncountable, plural merinos)

1. (countable) A sheep of a Spanish breed with long, fine hair.
2. (uncountable) The wool of this sheep.
3. The fabric made from this wool (or from any similar yarn).
   • 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 5

     The Priest pulled the light merino carriage rug higher about his knees.

4. A yarn made from a combination of wool and cotton in imitation of this wool.

Translations

Anagrams

• E minor, Minero, Monier, Normie, Romine, monier, normie

Indonesian

Etymology

From Spanish merino.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [m??ri.no]
• Hyphenation: mê?ri?no

Noun

mêrino (first-person possessive merinoku, second-person possessive merinomu, third-person possessive merinonya)

1. (nonstandard) sheep.

   Synonyms: biri-biri, domba

Further reading

• “merino” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Verb

merino

1. third-person plural present subjunctive of meriare
2. third-person plural imperative of meriare

Spanish

Etymology

From Late Latin mai?r?nus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me??ino/, [me??i.no]

Adjective

merino (feminine merina, masculine plural merinos, feminine plural merinas)

1. merino (relating to the sheep or wool)

Derived terms

• mezclar churras y merinas

Noun

merino m (plural merinos)

1. merino (wool or fabric)
2. (historical, Spain) a count who had jurisdiction over a merindad

Further reading

• “merino” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.