Fabric vs Drogue - What's the difference?
fabric | drogue |
(archaic) structure, building
* Milton
(archaic) The act of constructing; construction; fabrication.
* Milman
(archaic) The structure of anything; the manner in which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship; texture; make.
The framework underlying a structure
A material made of fibers, a textile or cloth.
(petrology) The appearance of crystalline grains in a rock
(computing) Interconnected nodes that look like a textile 'fabric' when viewed collectively from a distance
(whaling) A floating object attached to the end of a harpoon line to slow a whale down and prevent it from diving.
* 1993 , Will Self, My Idea of Fun :
(nautical) A type of bag pulled behind a boat to stop it from broaching to.
(aeronautics) A conical basket or fabric construction used variously as a type of brake for some kinds of aircraft, a target for gunnery practice, and as a docking point for aerial refuelling.
A wind cone.
As nouns the difference between fabric and drogue
is that fabric is structure, building while drogue is a floating object attached to the end of a harpoon line to slow a whale down and prevent it from diving.fabric
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Alternative forms
* fabrick (obsolete)Noun
(wikipedia fabric)- Anon out of the earth a fabric huge / Rose like an exhalation.
- Tithe was received by the bishop for the fabric of the churches for the poor.
- cloth of a beautiful fabric
- the fabric of our lives
- the fabric of the universe
- cotton fabric
- The internet is a fabric of computers connected by routers
Synonyms
* See alsoSee also
*drogue
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Noun
(en noun)- through the sash window I could see the black truck pulling up the drive towards the main road, the silver caravan coming behind like a drogue that was preventing the gypsies from submerging, escaping into the very centre of the earth.