Definition of "fabric"

fabric

/ˈfæb.ɹɪk/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural fabrics
1. (now rare) An edifice or building.
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  Anon out of the earth a fabric huge / Rose like an exhalation.
  1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,
  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.
  1791, Ann Radcliffe, The Romance of the Forest, Oxford 1999, page 86
2. (archaic) The act of constructing, construction, fabrication.
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  Tithe was received by the bishop […] for the fabric of the churches for the poor.
  1855, Henry Hart Milman, History of Latin Christianity‎
3. (archaic) The structure of anything, the manner in which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship, texture, make.
4. The physical material of a building.
5. (figurative) The framework underlying a structure.
6. A material made of fibers, a textile or cloth.
7. The texture of a cloth.
8. (petrology) The appearance of crystalline grains in a rock.
9. (computing) Interconnected nodes that look like a textile fabric when diagrammed.
verb
third-person singular simple present fabrics, present participle fabricking, simple past and past participle fabricked
1. (transitive) To cover with fabric.
  Quotations
  Fabricking and Carpeting a Room. If your ballroom's walls are in need of a paint job, or the space feels cavernous, or your tent is just looking too bare, you can have the ceiling and walls draped with fabric to create an intimate enclave.
  2016, Mindy Weiss, Lisbeth Levine, The Wedding Book

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