fabric
noun
[ ˈfabrɪk ]
• cloth or other material produced by weaving or knitting fibres.
• "heavy cream fabric"
• the walls, floor, and roof of a building.
• "decay and neglect are slowly eating away at the building's fabric"
Similar:
structure,
framework,
frame,
form,
make-up,
constitution,
composition,
construction,
organization,
infrastructure,
foundations,
mechanisms,
anatomy,
essence,
Origin:
late 15th century: from French fabrique, from Latin fabrica ‘something skilfully produced’, from faber ‘worker in metal, stone, etc.’ The word originally denoted a building, later a machine, the general sense being ‘something made’, hence fabric (sense 1) (mid 18th century, originally denoting any manufactured material). fabric (sense 2) dates from the mid 17th century.
