Fabric

German Meaning

Stoff

Gewebe

Tuch

Struktur

Leinwand

English Meaning

  1. A cloth produced especially by knitting, weaving, or felting fibers.
  2. The texture or quality of such cloth.
  3. A complex underlying structure: destroyed the very fabric of the ancient abbey during wartime bombing; needs to protect the fabric of civilized society.
  4. A method or style of construction.
  5. A structural material, such as masonry or timber.
  6. A physical structure; a building.