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Clothes vs Fabric - What's the difference?

clothes | fabric |

As nouns the difference between clothes and fabric

is that clothes is (plural only) items of clothing; apparel while fabric is (archaic) structure, building.

As a verb clothes

is (clothe).

clothes

English

Etymology 1

(etyl)

Noun

(head)
  • (plural only) Items of clothing; apparel.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=6 citation , passage=Even in an era when individuality in dress is a cult, his clothes were noticeable. He was wearing a hard hat of the low round kind favoured by hunting men, and with it a black duffle-coat lined with white.}}
  • (obsolete) .
  • The covering of a bed; bedclothes.
  • * Prior
    • She turned each way her frighted head, / Then sunk it deep beneath the clothes .
    Derived terms
    (terms derived from "clothes") * bedclothes * clotheshorse * clothesline * clothes moth * clothes-peg * clothes peg * clothespin * clotehspress * swaddling clothes * swathing clothes

    See also

    * clothing * gear * threads

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    (head)
  • (clothe)
    • English pluralia tantum 1000 English basic words

    fabric

    English

    Alternative forms

    * fabrick (obsolete)

    Noun

    (wikipedia fabric)
  • (archaic) structure, building
  • * Milton
    • Anon out of the earth a fabric huge / Rose like an exhalation.
  • (archaic) The act of constructing; construction; fabrication.
  • * Milman
    • Tithe was received by the bishop for the fabric of the churches for the poor.
  • (archaic) The structure of anything; the manner in which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship; texture; make.
    • cloth of a beautiful fabric
  • The framework underlying a structure
    • the fabric of our lives
    the fabric of the universe
  • A material made of fibers, a textile or cloth.
    • cotton fabric
  • (petrology) The appearance of crystalline grains in a rock
  • (computing) Interconnected nodes that look like a textile 'fabric' when viewed collectively from a distance
    • The internet is a fabric of computers connected by routers

    Synonyms

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