What is the difference between fabric and cloth?
fabric | cloth |
(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
(uncountable) A woven fabric such as used in dressing, decorating, cleaning or other practical use.
* {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
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, chapter=2 A piece of cloth used for a particular purpose.
A form of attire that represents a particular profession.
(in idioms) Priesthood, clergy.
As nouns the difference between fabric and cloth
is that fabric is structure, building while cloth is a woven fabric such as used in dressing, decorating, cleaning or other practical use.fabric
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* 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
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* See alsoSee also
*cloth
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* (l) (obsolete) * (l), (l), (l) (Scotland)Noun
(en-noun)citation, passage=“H'm !” he said, “so, so—it is a tragedy in a prologue and three acts. I am going down this afternoon to see the curtain fall for the third time on what [...] will prove a good burlesque ; but it all began dramatically enough. It was last Saturday […] that two boys, playing in the little spinney just outside Wembley Park Station, came across three large parcels done up in American cloth . […]”}}
