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单词 fabric
释义 fab·ric
I. \ˈfabrik, -rēk\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle French fabrique, from fabriquer to fabricate, from Latin fabricari, from fabrica artisan's workshop, skillfully wrought object, building — more at forge
1.
 a. : a product of building (as a house or ship)
  < four high houses … of the sort lane-dwellers call fabrics — Daniel Corkery >
 b. : underlying structure : framework
  < the work of restoring the fabric of Westminster Abbey — Conrad Voss Bark >
  < the very fabric of daily life >
  < whether the political fabric had the strength to withstand war — S.E.Morrison & H.S.Commager >
2. obsolete : contrivance, device; especially : a military engine
3. : an act of constructing : construction, erection; specifically : the construction and maintenance of a church building
4.
 a. : structural plan or style of construction
  < the whole complex fabric of flowers and floral organs that makes up the head of a composite plant >
  < soil fabric (arrangement of the constituents of the soil in relation to each other) — L.D.Baver >
 b. : texture, quality — used chiefly of textiles
  < a linen cloth of fine silky fabric >
 c. : the form of the planchet of a medal or coin
  < a coin with thick fabric >
5.
 a. archaic : something made by man : artifact, product
  < the earliest fabric of the Venetian glassblowers >
 b. : cloth 1 a
 c. : cloth of a particular kind
  < satin is a fabric with a smooth shining surface >
  or for a particular use
  < a sheer curtain fabric >
 d. : a material (as leather or woven wire) that in some respect resembles cloth
6. : a place devoted to manufacture : factory
 < the chief shapes manufactured in this fabric were bowls — V.G.Childe >
7. : structural material
 < the more usual fabric was timber or coursed masonry >
 < using a fabric of silken threads the spider builds her web >
8. : the appearance or pattern that is produced by the shapes and arrangement of the crystal grains or of these with glass in a rock and that includes those orientation features which are not evident from grain shape alone
II. transitive verb
(fabricked ; fabricked ; fabricking ; fabrics)
Etymology: French fabriquer
obsolete : frame, build, construct
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