different between fabric vs twilling
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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twilling
English
Etymology
twill +? -ing
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?tw?l??/
Noun
twilling (countable and uncountable, plural twillings)
- Twilled fabric or patterning, or the process which produces this.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 563:
- It seemed to Yashmeen that the secret of the Snazzbury frock lay in the lining, the precise, as one would say, microscopic fine-structure of the twilling, which after inspection seemed far from uniform in the way it skipped over the threads
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 563:
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