Yarn vs. Fabric — What's the Difference?
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Difference Between Yarn and Fabric
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Definitions
Yarn
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.
Fabric
A cloth produced especially by knitting, weaving, or felting fibers.
Yarn
A continuous strand of twisted threads of natural or synthetic fibers, such as wool or nylon, used in weaving or knitting.
Fabric
The texture or quality of such cloth.
Yarn
A similar strand of other materials such as glass or plastic.
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Fabric
A complex underlying structure
Destroyed the very fabric of the ancient abbey during wartime bombing.
Needs to protect the fabric of civilized society.
Yarn
(Informal) A long, often elaborate narrative of real or fictitious adventures; an entertaining tale.
Fabric
A method or style of construction.
Yarn
To tell an entertaining tale or series of tales.
Fabric
A structural material, such as masonry or timber.
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Yarn
(uncountable) A twisted strand of fiber used for knitting or weaving.
Fabric
A physical structure; a building.
Yarn
(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.
Fabric
An edifice or building.
Yarn
(countable) A story, a tale, especially one that is incredible.
Fabric
(archaic) The act of constructing, construction, fabrication.
Yarn
To tell a story or stories, especially one that is lengthy or unlikely to be true.
Fabric
(archaic) The structure of anything, the manner in which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship, texture, make.
Cloth of a beautiful fabric
Yarn
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.
Fabric
The physical material of a building.
This church dates back to the 11th century, though the great majority of its fabric is fifteenth century or later.
Yarn
One of the threads of which the strands of a rope are composed.
Fabric
The framework underlying a structure.
The fabric of our lives
The fabric of the universe
Yarn
A story told by a sailor for the amusement of his companions; a story or tale; as, to spin a yarn.
Fabric
A material made of fibers, a textile or cloth.
Cotton fabric
Yarn
The act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events;
His narration was hesitant
Fabric
The texture of a cloth.
Yarn
A fine cord of twisted fibers (of cotton or silk or wool or nylon etc.) used in sewing and weaving
Fabric
(petrology) The appearance of crystalline grains in a rock.
Yarn
Tell or spin a yarn
Fabric
(computing) Interconnected nodes that look like a textile fabric when diagrammed.
The Internet is a fabric of computers connected by routers.
Fabric
(transitive) To cover with fabric.
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.
Fabric
That which is fabricated
Anon out of the earth a fabric hugeRose like an exhalation.
Fabric
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.
Fabric
The act of constructing; construction.
Tithe was received by the bishop, . . . for the fabric of the churches for the poor.
Fabric
Any system or structure consisting of connected parts; as, the fabric of the universe.
The whole vast fabric of society.
Fabric
To frame; to build; to construct.
Fabric
Artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers;
The fabric in the curtains was light and semitraqnsparent
Woven cloth originated in Mesopotamia around 5000 BC
She measured off enough material for a dress
Fabric
The underlying structure;
Restoring the framework of the bombed building
It is part of the fabric of society