What is the difference between fabric and fibre?
fabric | fibre |
(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
(en noun) (British, Canada, Australia, Ireland, NZ, South Africa)
(senseid)(countable) A single piece of a given material, elongated and roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibres to form thread.
(senseid)(uncountable) Material in the form of fibres.
Dietary fibre.
Moral strength and resolve.
(mathematics) The preimage of a given point in the range of a map.
(computing) A kind of lightweight thread of execution.
In context|computing|lang=en terms the difference between fabric and fibre
is that fabric is (computing) interconnected nodes that look like a textile 'fabric' when viewed collectively from a distance while fibre is (computing) a kind of lightweight thread of execution.As nouns the difference between fabric and fibre
is that fabric is (originally|construction) structure, building while fibre is (senseid)(countable) a single piece of a given material, elongated and roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibres to form thread.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
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*fibre
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(wikipedia fibre)Alternative forms
* fiber (US)Noun
- The microscope showed several different fibres stuck to the sole of the shoe.
- The cloth was made from strange, somewhat rough fibre .
- ''Fresh vegetables are a good source of fibre .
- The ordeal was a test of everyone’s fibre .
- Under this map, any two values in the fibre of a given point on the circle differ by 2π