Yarn vs. Fabric — What's the Difference?

Yarn is a long continuous length of interlocked fibres, suitable for use in the production of textiles, sewing, crocheting, knitting, weaving, embroidery, or ropemaking. Thread is a type of yarn intended for sewing by hand or machine.

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

A continuous strand of twisted threads of natural or synthetic fibers, such as wool or nylon, used in weaving or knitting.

The texture or quality of such cloth.

A similar strand of other materials such as glass or plastic.

A complex underlying structure

(Informal) A long, often elaborate narrative of real or fictitious adventures; an entertaining tale.

A method or style of construction.

To tell an entertaining tale or series of tales.

A structural material, such as masonry or timber.

(uncountable) A twisted strand of fiber used for knitting or weaving.

A physical structure; a building.

(nautical) Bundles of fibers twisted together, and which in turn are twisted in bundles to form strands, which in their turn are twisted or plaited to form rope.

An edifice or building.

(countable) A story, a tale, especially one that is incredible.

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

To tell a story or stories, especially one that is lengthy or unlikely to be true.

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

Spun wool; woolen thread; also, thread of other material, as of cotton, flax, hemp, or silk; material spun and prepared for use in weaving, knitting, manufacturing sewing thread, or the like.

The physical material of a building.

One of the threads of which the strands of a rope are composed.

The framework underlying a structure.

A story told by a sailor for the amusement of his companions; a story or tale; as, to spin a yarn.

A material made of fibers, a textile or cloth.

The act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events;

The texture of a cloth.

A fine cord of twisted fibers (of cotton or silk or wool or nylon etc.) used in sewing and weaving

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

Tell or spin a yarn

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

(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;