Fabric vs Clothe - What's the difference?

As a noun fabric

is (archaic) structure, building.

to adorn or cover with clothing; to dress; to supply clothes or clothing.

* fabrick (obsolete)

(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

* See also

To adorn or cover with clothing; to dress; to supply clothes or clothing.

to feed and clothe''' a family; to '''clothe oneself extravagantly

* Shakespeare

Go with me, to clothe you as becomes you.

* Bible, Proverbs xxiii. 21

Drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

* Goldsmith

The naked every day he clad , / When he put on his clothes.

(figurative) To cover or invest, as if with a garment.

to clothe somebody with authority or power

* Watts

language in which they can clothe their thoughts

* J. Dyer

His sides are clothed with waving wood.

* Milton

words clothed in reason's garb