Fabric vs Antipill - What's the difference?

fabric | antipill |

As a noun fabric

is structure, building.

As an adjective antipill is

preventing or countering the formation of pills on fabric.

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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antipill

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

(not comparable) Preventing or countering the formation of pills on fabric.

Opposing the contraceptive pill.

* 1998 , The Journal of Japanese Studies (volume 24)

This antipill lobbying technique is epitomized by a July 1964 meeting between the Oral Contraception Committee of the FPFJ and representatives from MHW's Drug Bureau and the drug shingikai .

(finance) Opposing a poison pill.

* 2000 , James P. Hawley, Andrew T. Williams, The rise of fiduciary capitalism (page 63)

In fact, the 1997 proposal was a binding bylaw amendment prompted by Fleming's refusal to redeem its poison pill despite a 65 percent antipill vote the previous year.