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Meaning fabric meaning

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fabric

cloth

fabric

(= cloth, material) artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers the fabric in the curtains was light and semitransparent woven cloth originated in Mesopotamia around 5000 BC she measured off enough material for a dress (= framework) the underlying structure providing a factual framework for future research it is part of the fabric of society

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Topics fabric topics

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Simple sentences

Cotton is a natural fabric.
I'd like to have this fabric dyed.
The dress is made of a thin fabric.
You should have seen the fabric with your own eyes.
Tom carefully cut the fabric with a pair of scissors.
My cat lies next to me when I play piano, but I think it's really appreciating the fabric of the bench and the warmth of the duct over it.
Did Tom remember to add fabric softener to the rinse cycle?
This fabric stains easily.
This fabric is impermeable to water.
I bought five metres of fabric in the shop.
How much fabric did you buy?
Tom admired the pearly whiteness of the fabric.
Corduroy is a thick cotton fabric with velvety ribs.
Thread is the basic component of fabric.

Movie subtitles

There's Raymond Passworthy of General Fabric. You know him?
Look at this fabric, it has cost many lives, this gives its own perfection.
The music is part of the fabric, woven in and out.
I have reason to believe that 16 years ago..a minor alteration was performed..throughout the entire 8000 cubic miles of its own fabric.
At 7pm that same day, Johnny Clay, perhaps the most important thread in the unfinished fabric, furthered its design.
Great Pharaoh, the gift of Troy is a fabulous fabric from the land of the five rivers.
It's fabric. - I swear, it's Japanese metal.
These chairs aren't bad. With some new fabric and a little varnish, they'll be fine.
Now, with its fabric-covered speakers its peculiar yellow dial, its serrated knobs it looks quaint and a little strange.
But the reason was that fabric was scarce.
Each time, I recreated their fingerprint on gloves of the same fabric.
It's a very solid fabric.
Behind them lies the whole fabric of deductive truth.
Look at this fabric.
Ah. I thought such fabric came from Madrid.
Yes it's cotton fabric.
It's good fabric, well woven, with a solid base.
Give me the jersey fabric, Solange.
Wrong fabric!
A different fabric.
It stains the fabric.
I ordered the fabric 2 months ago!
Oh! My fabric!
Fabric.
This is great fabric!
So keep the fabric.
Where did you buy the fabric?
Jim Blandings is part of the fabric of this town.
Surely you understand that a clerk in a fabric store can't just give away kimono fabric costing over 50 yen.
We'll find some fabric.
This is a very nice fabric.
Mama will buy you some fabric.
Look, isn't this fabric pretty?
Oh! This fabric is really good looking.
Hey, how are we missing a few pieces of fabric?
Just now we're missing a few pieces of fabric.
Once is enough. All right, I have a fabric shop at your service.
To think I came from the capital to live among rags and shabby fabric.
A money order for 10,000 for the fabric for my coat.
We'd like some nice fabric, for a winter coat.
Only how to buy fabric and that only because I worked in a store.

News and current affairs

All of these factors place deep stresses on the social fabric which, so the skeptics argue, will ultimately play out in the political arena.
Its social fabric, like that of many other countries around the world, depends on mutual trust among citizens.
They form the fabric of all human institutions.
How it is shaped will depend on how China's history, culture, institutional context, and evolving web of contracts affect the country's social fabric.
We cannot afford to sacrifice a generation, or, rather, risk creating a lost generation that could destroy Europe's social fabric and stability.
This proposal illustrates how the reform gap, and the unbalanced growth that results from it, can debilitate the European fabric by setting one partner against the other.
By rooting the then West Germany in the political, economic, and social fabric of the West, that step heralded the start of Germany's rebirth and economic miracle.
Unfortunately, the Obama administration's decision to put the unions ahead of secured debt-holders in the orchestrated Chrysler bankruptcy risks rupturing the basic fabric of credit markets.
Such measures will merely cause further damage to Greece's already-stressed social fabric, rendering it incapable of providing the support that our reform agenda desperately needs.
Indeed, it has been tearing apart the fabric of these societies ever since so-called independence came in 1960.
Discipline and morality may well be key to reinforcing trust and credibility to Europe's social fabric - a point that northern Europeans never tire of making.
But the country now is isolated, which affects the whole fabric of stability in the region.
Instead of sticking to doomsday prophecies or to categorical perspectives that prevent an understanding of the complex fabric of Islamic movements, the West needs to keep the pressure on the incumbent regimes to stop circumventing political reform.
To the contrary, terrorism is now part of the fabric of contemporary life.
Without it, growth falters, job creation is insufficient, and widening income and wealth inequality undermines the social fabric.
Indians are more part of Africa's social tapestry than are the Chinese, a fabric that has been strengthened through opportunity and adversity through the ages.
Science and technology mutually reinforce each other, and both percolate through the social fabric.
Domestic farmers are portrayed as irreplaceable defenders of the social fabric and traditional values.
Prolonged periods of strain tend to weaken the fabric of institutional cooperation.
The longer all of this persists, the more it tears at the fabric of European unity.
Indeed, around the world, from Mexico to Indonesia and even China, the social fabric is being stretched to the point of fraying.
Clinton and Blair - who came to power after that other odd Anglo-American couple, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, had started to tear at the fabric of social democracy - made compromises of which Attlee would not have dreamed.
With the destruction of human capital, Europe's social fabric is tearing, and its future is being thrown into jeopardy.

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