fabric

noun

1. a cloth made by weaving, knitting, or felting fibers: woolen fabrics.
2. the texture of the woven, knitted, or felted material: cloth of a soft, pliant fabric.
3. framework; structure: the fabric of society.
4. a building; edifice.
5. the method of construction.
6. the act of constructing, especially of a church building.
7. the maintenance of such a building.
8. Petrography. the spatial arrangement and orientation of the constituents of a rock.

noun

1. any cloth made from yarn or fibres by weaving, knitting, felting, etc
2. the texture of a cloth
3. a structure or frameworkthe fabric of society
4. a style or method of construction
5. rare a building
6. the texture, arrangement, and orientation of the constituents of a rock

n.

late 15c., “building, thing made,” from Middle French fabrique (14c.), from Latin fabrica “workshop,” also “an art, trade; a skillful production, structure, fabric,” from faber “artisan who works in hard materials,” from PIE *dhabh- “to fit together.” Sense in English evolved via “manufactured material” (1753) to “textile” (1791).