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Fabric vs Ventile - What's the difference?

fabric | ventile |

As nouns the difference between fabric and ventile

is that fabric is (archaic) structure, building while ventile is a waterproof and windproof cotton 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

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    ventile

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (statistics) Any of the nineteen points that divide an ordered distribution into twenty parts, each containing one twentieth of the population.
  • (statistics) Any one of the twenty groups so divided.

    • Coordinate terms

    * quantile ** centile/percentile ** vigintile ** duodecile ** decile ** nonile ** octile ** septile ** sextile ** quintile ** quartile ** tercile/tertile ----