ETYM Latin fabrica fabric, workshop: cf. French fabrique fabric. Related to Forge.
Something made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers; SYN. cloth, material, textile.
ETYM Old Eng. shap, schap, as. sceap in gesceap creation, creature, from the root of scieppan, scyppan, sceppan, to shape, to do, to effect.
1. Any spatial attribute (especially as defined by outline); SYN. form, configuration, contour.
2. The spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance; SYN. form.
3. A concrete representation of an otherwise nebulous concept; SYN. embodiment.
ETYM Latin structura, from struere, structum, to arrange, build, construct; perhaps akin to Eng. strew: cf. French structure. Related to Construe, Destroy, Instrument, Obstruct.
1. A particular complex anatomical structure; SYN. anatomical structure, complex body part, bodily structure, body structure.
2. A thing constructed; a complex construction or entity; SYN. construction.
3. The complex composition of knowledge as elements and their combinations.
4. The manner of construction of something and the disposition of its parts; SYN. architecture.