fabric

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A cloth produced especially by knitting, weaving, or felting fibers.
• noun The texture or quality of such cloth.
• noun A complex underlying structure.
• noun A method or style of construction.
• noun A structural material, such as masonry or timber.
• noun A physical structure; a building.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To build; construct; put into form.
• noun In petrography, the pattern of a rock produced by the shape and arrangement of the crystalline or non-crystalline parts: distinguished from the granularity or size of the parte, and the crystallinity or degree of crystallization. (See quantitative classification of igneous rocks, under rock.)
• noun A structure of any kind; anything composed of parts systematically joined or connected.
• noun A woven or felted cloth of any material or style of weaving; anything produced by weaving or interlacing: distinctively called textile fabric.
• noun Any system of connected or interrelated parts: as, the universal fabric; the social fabric.
• noun The structure of anything; the manner in which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship; texture; tissue.
• noun The act of building.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb obsolete To frame; to build; to construct.
• noun The structure of anything; the manner in which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship; texture; make.
• noun That which is fabricated.
• noun Framework; structure; edifice; building.
• noun Cloth of any kind that is woven or knit from fibers, whether vegetable, animal, or synthetic; manufactured cloth.
• noun rare The act of constructing; construction.
• noun Any system or structure consisting of connected parts.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun originally (construction) structure, building
• noun An act of construction, especially the erection of a church
• noun The framework underlying a structure
• noun A material made of fibers, a textile or cloth.
• noun The texture of a cloth.
• noun petrology The appearance of crystalline grains in a rock
• noun computing Interconnected nodes that look like a textile 'fabric' when viewed collectively from a distance

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers
• noun the underlying structure