different between leather vs fabric

English

Etymology

From Middle English lether, from Old English leþer (“leather”), from Proto-Germanic *leþr? (“leather”), borrowing from Proto-Celtic *?litro-, from Proto-Indo-European *pl?tro-. Cognate with West Frisian leare (“leather”), Low German Leder (“leather”), Dutch leder, leer (“leather”), German Leder (“leather”), Danish læder (“leather”), Swedish läder (“leather”), Icelandic leður (“leather”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?l?ð?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?l?ð?/
• Rhymes: -?ð?(?)

Noun

leather (countable and uncountable, plural leathers)

1. A tough material produced from the skin of animals, by tanning or similar process, used e.g. for clothing.
2. A piece of the above used for polishing.
3. (colloquial) A cricket ball or football.
4. (plural: leathers) clothing made from the skin of animals, often worn by motorcycle riders.
5. (baseball) A good defensive play

   Jones showed good leather to snare that liner.

6. (boxing) A punch.
7. (dated, humorous) The skin.

Hyponyms

(types of leather): chagrin, cordovan, cordwain, galuchat, maroquin, morocco, morocco leather, shagreen, sharkskin, taw

Translations

Adjective

leather (not comparable)

1. Made of leather.
2. Referring to one who wears leather clothing (motorcycle jacket, chaps over 501 jeans, boots), especially as a sign of sadomasochistic homosexuality.

Translations

Verb

leather (third-person singular simple present leathers, present participle leathering, simple past and past participle leathered)

1. (transitive) To cover with leather.
2. (transitive) To strike forcefully.

   He leathered the ball all the way down the street.

3. (transitive) To beat with a leather belt or strap.

Derived terms

Anagrams

• Tar Heel, Tarheel, haltere, lethera

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