different between fabric vs moreen
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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moreen
English
Etymology
Compare mohair.
Noun
moreen (countable and uncountable, plural moreens)
- A thick woollen fabric, watered or with embossed figures, used in upholstery, for curtains, etc.
- 1847, Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre, chapter 1
- I mounted into the window-seat: gathering up my feet, I sat cross-legged, like a Turk; and, having drawn the red moreen curtain nearly close, I was shrined in double retirement.
- 1847, Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre, chapter 1
Anagrams
- Mereon
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