Leather vs Fabric - What's the difference?
leather | fabric |
A tough material produced from the skin of animals, by tanning or similar process, used e.g. for clothing.
A piece of the above used for polishing.
(colloquial) A cricket ball or football.
(plural : leathers ) clothing made from the skin of animals, often worn by motorcycle riders.
(baseball) A good defensive play
(dated, humorous) The skin.
Made of leather.
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Referring to one who wears leather clothing (motorcycle jacket, chaps over 501 jeans, boots), especially as a sign of sadomasochistic homosexuality.
To cover with leather.
To strike forcefully.
(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
As nouns the difference between leather and fabric
is that leather is a tough material produced from the skin of animals, by tanning or similar process, used e.g. for clothing while fabric is structure, building.As an adjective leather
is made of leather.As a verb leather
is to cover with leather.leather
English
(wikipedia leather)Noun
- Jones showed good leather to snare that liner.
Hyponyms
(types of leather) chagrin, cordovan, cordwain, galuchat, maroquin, morocco, morocco leather, shagreen, sharkskinDerived terms
*stirrup leather : the strap which hangs the stirrup from the saddle.Adjective
(-)Verb
(en verb)- He leathered the ball all the way down the street.
Derived terms
* hell-for-leather * leatherback * leatherette * leatherhead * leatherjacket * leather jacket * leather-lunged * leathern * leathery * wash-leatherAnagrams
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English
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