different between fabric vs shantung

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 Mandarin ????? (Sh?nd?ng), Shantung.

Noun

shantung (countable and uncountable, plural shantungs)

1. A heavy fabric, with a rough surface, made from wild silk.
   • 1963, H. E. Bates, "Major of Hussars" in Seven by Five

     The yellow beer, the light shantung suit and the gleaming white teeth were all alight with the trembling silver reflections that sprang from the sunlight on the water.

2. A fabric of some other material having the same characteristics.

Anagrams

• T'ung-shan

Spanish

Noun

shantung m (plural shantungs)

1. shantung