Fabric vs. Fibre — What's the Difference?

A cloth produced especially by knitting, weaving, or felting fibers.

A thread or filament from which a vegetable tissue, mineral substance, or textile is formed

The texture or quality of such cloth.

Dietary material containing substances such as cellulose, lignin, and pectin, that are resistant to the action of digestive enzymes.

A complex underlying structure

Variant of fiber.

A method or style of construction.

(countable) A single piece of a given material, elongated and roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibres to form thread.

A structural material, such as masonry or timber.

(uncountable) Material in the form of fibres.

A physical structure; a building.

Dietary fibre.

An edifice or building.

Moral strength and resolve.

(archaic) The act of constructing, construction, fabrication.

(mathematics) The preimage of a given point in the range of a map.

(archaic) The structure of anything, the manner in which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship, texture, make.

(category theory) Said to be of a morphism over a global element: The pullback of the said morphism along the said global element.

The physical material of a building.

(computing) A kind of lightweight thread of execution.

The framework underlying a structure.

(cytology) A long tubular cell found in bodily tissue.

A material made of fibers, a textile or cloth.

Same as fiber.

The texture of a cloth.

A slender and greatly elongated solid substance

(petrology) The appearance of crystalline grains in a rock.

The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions;

(computing) Interconnected nodes that look like a textile fabric when diagrammed.

A leatherlike material made by compressing layers of paper or cloth

(transitive) To cover with fabric.

The structure of anything; the manner in which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship; texture; make; as cloth of a beautiful fabric.

That which is fabricated

Cloth of any kind that is woven or knit from fibers, whether vegetable, animal, or synthetic; manufactured cloth; as, silks or other fabrics; made of a fabric that is 50% cotton and 50% polyester.

The act of constructing; construction.

Any system or structure consisting of connected parts; as, the fabric of the universe.

To frame; to build; to construct.

Artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers;

The underlying structure;