different between fabric vs tricot

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 French tricot, from tricoter (“to knit”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?iko?/

Noun

tricot (countable and uncountable, plural tricots)

1. A soft knit fabric.

Translations

French

Etymology

From tricoter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?i.ko/

Noun

tricot m (plural tricots)

1. knitting
2. sweater, jumper
3. sea krait (snake)

Derived terms

• tricot de corps
• tricot rond

Descendants

Further reading

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

Italian

Etymology

From French tricot.

Noun

tricot m (invariable)

1. tricot

Anagrams

• critto, crittò

Romanian

Etymology

From French tricot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tri?kot]

Noun

tricot n (plural tricoturi)

1. knitting; an object made by knitting

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From French tricot.

Noun

tricot m (plural tricots)

1. tricot