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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
fabric
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cotton cloth/fabric
▪ cotton cloth from India
curtain fabric/material (=for making curtains)
▪ I need to go to town to buy some curtain fabric.
fabric softener
synthetic fibres/materials/fabrics
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
fine
▪ Some collections are using fine knitted fabrics for jackets, which have traditionally been made from woven fabrics.
▪ They were clearly mass-produced in permanent kilns using a finer fabric and were a far more standardised product.
▪ A tumour had manifested itself. Fine fabric had been scarred.
▪ Narrow double-stitched hem is suitable for fine lightweight fabrics to finish off single-sided frills.
▪ It was made of a fine gossamer fabric that clung to her smooth, flawless skin.
▪ The new wing with its harmonising fine materials and fabrics create a stylish ambience.
furnishing
▪ Among the synthetic fibres used in furnishing fabrics are nylon, polyester and acrylic.
▪ Additionally the full range from Marvic Textiles is now available from Sloane Avenue providing an exceptionally comprehensive selection of furnishing fabric.
▪ They supply the trade with top quality woven and printed furnishing fabrics and proudly display the Royal Warrant.
▪ In addition, they are flame-resistant, making them most suitable for furnishing fabrics.
▪ Its main use in furnishing fabrics is as linen union, a hard-wearing fabric.
▪ It has good insulating qualities, and is used in furnishing fabrics mixed with other fibres.
▪ Alternatively, use standard furnishing fabric and match it up to other furnishings in the room.
▪ Most standard furnishing fabrics can also be stuck to the wall - paste the wall, not the fabric.
knitted
▪ Some collections are using fine knitted fabrics for jackets, which have traditionally been made from woven fabrics.
▪ Stem stitch which would be fine on cloth tends to get hidden on knitted fabric.
▪ It ensures that the design and colours are accurately reproduced in your knitted fabric.
▪ It would be difficult to imagine a knitted fabric that is not included, but then that was Susanna's intention.
▪ Nylon yarn was made there for a time along with Cellophane packaging film, carpets and circular knitted fabrics.
natural
▪ Many items boast natural fabrics and a vast array of colours to choose from.
▪ Originally, they sold back-to-the-land products such as apparel in natural fabrics and wood-burning stoves.
▪ It may be pricey but it will never date. Natural fabrics, particularly wool, are always favourites.
▪ It's the strongest natural fabric and can stand very high temperatures and be machine washed.
outer
▪ You will need the same amount of lining as outer curtain fabric, less allowance for pattern matching.
▪ Lay out the outer fabric flat with the wrong side up and lay buckram on top with the bump sandwiched in between.
▪ Tack, then machine the lining to the outer fabric along these marked lines to form lath channel.
▪ Materials: Pertex inner with Snugpak's own Paratex outer fabric.
▪ Lining Cut the lining as for the outer fabric and join the widths together in the same way.
▪ Machine along both edges of the tape through the lining and the outer fabric.
social
▪ We do not want fossilised museum pieces of countryside but communities with jobs and a living, dynamic and healthy social fabric.
▪ But there it was under the social fabric, the raw wound.
▪ The virtuous person participated in virtuous actions within the social fabric.
▪ With basic needs in increasingly short supply, the social fabric of Cairo is showing signs of fraying.
▪ Nurses in that sector have to cope with the effects on their patients of poor housing conditions and a deteriorating social fabric.
▪ With the destruction of our social fabric, science will be broken into a million pieces.
▪ They were relatively non-partisan and pursued policies which would least disturb the social fabric.
▪ Yet the social fabric seemed to unravel further.
soft
▪ Place a small towel or a piece of lint or soft fabric on top of the water.
▪ The finer the threads, the higher the count and the softer the fabric will be.
▪ New concepts Playtex Super Look Secrets bodyshaper offers all the control of a corset in a soft, stretchy fabric.
▪ We were immobile on the velvet cushions, my legs sticking out, jacket and skirt velvet enveloped by soft fabric.
▪ They will add a sumptuous air to your curtains, particularly when made up in soft, supple fabrics which drape beautifully.
▪ He took hold of the collar of Lucien's shirt and pulled hard so that the soft fabric ripped like parchment.
▪ It is well worth experimenting with a cheap soft fabric, such as mull.
▪ They were arguing about who had the softest fabric and I was called in as arbitrator.
synthetic
▪ Use fine thread; silk thread with silk fabrics, and synthetic thread with synthetic fabrics.
▪ Synthetic thread is very strong and should be used with synthetic or stretch fabric as it has more elasticity.
▪ All synthetic fabrics, plastics, chipboard, plywood, foam rubber and other man-made materials are excluded from the oasis.
▪ Viscose: A synthetic fabric normally made from wood fibres.
very
▪ The looks, the comfort, the smoothness of systems, the very fabric of ultimate sailing endures.
▪ Hannah clearly possesses a unique quality which gives her a remarkable perspective of the very fabric of Baldersdale.
▪ Pool controls the very fabric of this station.
▪ The Bishop felt his very fabric rotted by soft living.
▪ Temporal turbulence stretches the very fabric of reality and folds it back on itself.
▪ How dared he question her integrity, the very fabric her entire being was built around?
whole
▪ They are instruments for national survival and should be woven into the whole fabric of the primary school curriculum.
woven
▪ Aimed at the hotel and brewery market Victoriana is a new range of jacquard woven fabric by Sekers.
▪ The woven fabric will have a surface pattern similar to that shown in Fig 1.
▪ High quality, tightly woven fabric is used, with Hood's renowned soft finish for easy handling and long life.
▪ Some collections are using fine knitted fabrics for jackets, which have traditionally been made from woven fabrics.
▪ Conversely a loosely woven fabric would not be successful for a Roman blind, which requires a firm, stable fabric.
▪ Not quite so easily found just yet, but proving popular, are linen-Lycra mixes, often in knitwear rather than woven fabrics.
▪ Versatec: A densely woven fabric made from highly breathable superfine fibres.
▪ Always remember to return them to non-working position after completing the woven fabric.
■ NOUN
cotton
▪ Folkweave A loosely-woven cotton fabric, using coarse yarn, often with stripes.
▪ Plain-weave polyester and cotton fabrics are also used as linings.
curtain
▪ Doors that swing inwards present the problem of curtain fabric interfering with the operation of the doors.
▪ It is now necessary to spread your half pattern to fit the width of the curtain fabric as shown in fig. 50b.
▪ You will need the same amount of lining as outer curtain fabric, less allowance for pattern matching.
▪ Attaching interlining Lay curtain fabric out flat with wrong side uppermost.
▪ They'd murder each other over the choice of curtain fabric if they could get away with it.
silk
▪ Use fine thread; silk thread with silk fabrics, and synthetic thread with synthetic fabrics.
▪ Some silk fabrics will drape beautifully while others have a light, crisp appearance.
■ VERB
cover
▪ Or make one using a headboard kit from Cover Up and cover it with fabric.
▪ Slabs of dough lay covered under a gauzy fabric, waiting to be pummeled and mauled by Mrs Bay.
▪ Wallpaper them or cover them with fabric: felt, hessian, sacking, lining fabric or printed cotton.
▪ It was a cylindrical object, covered with fabric that had been roughly wound about it.
cut
▪ Never cut off the excess fabric across the corner or you will not be able to let the curtain down.
▪ Making up Cut the fabric and lining to the measurements plus turnings.
▪ Making up Cut the blind fabric with side, top and bottom turnings.
▪ You will need to cut all fabric drops to the total length measurement as at the centre of the window.
make
▪ Any cloths used on the table could be made from the same fabric as the main room curtains or upholstery.
▪ His father was a tailor in Como, and young Antonio made his first fabric design at age 12.
▪ Choose a colour from the existing design or a contrast colour if the fabric is plain. Make fabric tiebacks to match.
▪ Yet the simple stories contrast with the ingenious manipulation which makes up the fabric of the farce itself.
▪ Some collections are using fine knitted fabrics for jackets, which have traditionally been made from woven fabrics.
▪ Acrylic fibres are made into fabric which is soft and warm, and consequently has similar characteristics to wool.
▪ Epics, surely, make up the fabric of a climbing memory.
produce
▪ This produces a particularly firm fabric.
▪ It is also possible to produce deeper, ruched fabrics by slipping for more rows.
▪ Hand and power looms producing reproduction fabrics.
▪ The combination of tuck and slip produces a more textured fabric in which the design shows more clearly.
▪ By 1865, over 130 lace making factories were producing this delicate fabric on machines powered by the abundance of local coal.
▪ Evaporite sediments have a yet higher diagenetic potential than modern carbonate sediments, producing a near-metamorphic fabric.
tear
▪ The rain pounded so hard it sounded like tearing fabric.
▪ Nationalistic isolation tears apart the fabric of humanity.
use
▪ Martin uses balloon fabric, as it does not crease as easily as spinnaker ripstop.
▪ I also wanted to use great fabrics in small lots, to make a few select pieces.
▪ Some collections are using fine knitted fabrics for jackets, which have traditionally been made from woven fabrics.
▪ Do check therefore that you use fabric that will not shrink.
▪ You achieve it by using more fluid fabrics and gentler construction.
▪ Alternatively, you can select one of the iron-on transfer designs - these can be used on most fabrics.
▪ They were clearly mass-produced in permanent kilns using a finer fabric and were a far more standardised product.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I want to buy some fabric to make a skirt.
▪ Man-made fabrics such as polyester are easy to wash and iron.
▪ Rayon is used extensively to make furnishing fabrics.
▪ special fabric for Christmas decorations
▪ The company creates fabrics for jackets and coats.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And, a base spokesman acknowledged the cooler ban did not prohibit knapsacks, soft-sided fabric coolers or wagons.
▪ His father was a tailor in Como, and young Antonio made his first fabric design at age 12.
▪ In 1996, wardrobe shine will come from other sources, such as fabric coatings.
▪ Lamps, decorative objects, rugs, wall coverings and fabrics are only a few of the most commonly licensed home furnishings.
▪ Notch out fabric on inner curves to reduce bulk and enable the fabric to lie flat.
▪ Use lining fabrics for economy, trimmed with pattern border or edged with braid.
▪ We'd dearly love to grab squares of iridescent fabric and twist them into fabulously flattering Jerry Hallesque wraps.
▪ Within minutes of being tossed out, the soaking fabrics became stiff boards.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fabric

Fabric \Fab"ric\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fabricked; p. pr. & vb. n. Fabricking.] To frame; to build; to construct. [Obs.] ``Fabric their mansions.''
--J. Philips.

Fabric

Fabric \Fab"ric\ (f[a^]b"r[i^]k), n. [L. fabrica fabric, workshop: cf. F. fabrique fabric. See Forge.]

  1. The structure of anything; the manner in which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship; texture; make; as cloth of a beautiful fabric.

  2. That which is fabricated; as:

    1. Framework; structure; edifice; building.

      Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose like an exhalation.
      --Milton.

    2. Cloth of any kind that is woven or knit from fibers, whether vegetable, animal, or synthetic; manufactured cloth; as, silks or other fabrics; made of a fabric that is 50% cotton and 50% polyester.

  3. The act of constructing; construction. [R.]

    Tithe was received by the bishop, . . . for the fabric of the churches for the poor.
    --Milman.

  4. Any system or structure consisting of connected parts; as, the fabric of the universe.

    The whole vast fabric of society.
    --Macaulay.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fabric

late 15c., "building; thing made; a structure of any kind," from Middle French fabrique (14c.), verbal noun from fabriquer (13c.), from Latin fabricare "to make, construct, fashion, build," from fabrica "workshop," also "an art, trade; a skillful production, structure, fabric," from faber "artisan who works in hard materials," from Proto-Italic *fafro-, from PIE *dhabh- "to fit together" (cognates: Armenian darbin "smith;" also see daft).\n\nThe noun fabrica suggests the earlier existence of a feminine noun to which an adj. *fabriko- referred; maybe ars "art, craft."

[de Vaan]

\nSense in English evolved via "manufactured material" (1753) to "textile, woven or felted cloth" (1791). Compare forge (n.)) which is a doublet.
Wiktionary
fabric

n. 1 (context archaic English) structure, building 2 (context archaic English) The act of constructing; construction; fabrication. 3 (context archaic English) 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 (context petrology English) The appearance of crystalline grains in a rock 7 (context computing English) Interconnected nodes that look like a textile 'fabric' when viewed collectively from a distance

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WordNet
fabric

  1. n. artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers; "the fabric in the curtains was light and semitraqnsparent"; "woven cloth originated in Mesopotamia around 5000 BC"; "she measured off enough material for a dress" [syn: cloth, material, textile]

  2. the underlying structure; "restoring the framework of the bombed building"; "it is part of the fabric of society" [syn: framework]

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Wikipedia
Fabric (club)

Fabric is a nightclub in London, United Kingdom. It was voted World Number 1 Club in DJ Magazine's "Top 100 Clubs Poll" in 2007 and 2008 and ranked World Number 2 in 2009, 2010 and 2011. It is located on Charterhouse Street opposite Smithfield meat market on the southern boundary of the London Borough of Islington.

Fabric (disambiguation)

A fabric is a textile material, short for "textile fabric".

Fabric may also refer to:

  • Fabric (club), a nightclub in London, England
  • Fabric (geology), the spatial and geometric configuration of elements within a rock
  • Fabric (play), a play about human trafficking
  • "Fabric", a song from Haven by Dark Tranquillity

In computing:

  • Fabric computing, a consolidated high-performance computing platform
  • Switched fabric, a computer network topology where many devices connect with each other via switches
See also:
  • Fabrica ecclesiae, the structure and construction of a building, usually a church
  • Fabrication (disambiguation)
Fabric (play)

Fabric, written by playwright Henry Ong, is the only known dramatization of the 1995 El Monte Thai Garment Slavery Case. It was produced by the Company of Angels in 2010, in partnership with the Thai Community Development Center to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the landmark case. This year (2015), it will be reprised and presented at the Pasadena Playhouse as part of a month-long celebration of the 20th anniversary of the case.

Fabric (geology)

In geology, a rock's fabric describes the spatial and geometric configuration of all the elements that make it up. In sedimentary rocks, the fabric developed depends on the depositional environment and can provide information on current directions at the time of deposition. In structural geology, fabrics may provide information on both the orientation and magnitude of the strains that have affected a particular piece of deformed rock.

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Usage examples of "fabric".

I reached around and grabbed the belt and hissed as fabric abraided my skin.

At the same time the phone talker hoisted a large American flag on a temporary flagpole aft of the flying bridge, the wind from the north flapping the fabric.

The robots started off, the regular thudding of their footsteps silent in the airlessness, for the nonmetallic fabric of the insosuits did not transmit sound.

The arm on which she had rubbed the ambergris was sliding free, for the fabric did not adhere to it.

That exchange put me in a less than pleasant mood, and when Amrita emerged in her silk robe she took one look in the bag and announced that it was the wrong fabric.

The fabric of his trousers was silky and thin, and Ana could clearly see the outline of a pair of unappetiz-ingly small briefs digging into his fleshy buttocks.

He pulled the fabric lower, revealing the edges of her areolae, brushing his tongue across them.

It pervades the whole animal fabric as areolar tissue, which is the universal packing and wrapping material.

High, full and firm, her nipples and areoles were clearly visible under the fine white fabric.

The fabric of superstition which they had erected, and which might long have defied the feeble efforts of reason, was at length assaulted by a crowd of daring fanatics, who from the twelfth to the sixteenth century assumed the popular character of reformers.

The former would try to rip the fabric asunder, the latter to patch it.

And above all the caravanners from Basilica, with their strange songs and seeds, images in glass and cunning tools, impossible fabrics that changed colors with the hours of the day, and their poems and stories that taught the Sotchitsiya how wise and refined men and women spoke and thought and dreamed and lived.

Tomorrow Helen and Polly will be photographed going into Bendels, then inside with fabrics and hats, in afternoon at AFB in conference.

His biceps bulged under the tight fabric above his elbow and she stared a moment before pulling her gaze away, annoyed at herself.

It was a biplane, a wood-framed oval fuselage covered in doped fabric, with similar wings joined by wires and struts.