fab
fab — adjective
- fabpositive
- fabbercomparative
- fabbestsuperlative
1. very good; excellent. Used informally to show that you think something or someon
very good; excellent. Used informally to show that you think something or someone is extremely pleasing or impressive — like calling a meal 'absolutely fab' or saying a singer's performance was 'fab'.
That new song is absolutely fab — I have listened to it ten times today.
intensifier: absolutely fab
Sahil thought the concert was fab, so we bought tickets for next week too.
Camila made a fab dinner for everyone — roast chicken with roast vegetables.
Oh, those shoes are fab! Where did you buy them?
The weather was fab the whole weekend, so Jabari took the kids to the beach.
文法句型
be + fab
a fab + noun
用法筆記
Only used in informal spoken English or casual writing. Avoid in academic or professional texts.
常見錯誤
fab — noun
- fabsingular
- fabsplural
1. a building or facility where advanced electronic products such as computer chips
a building or facility where advanced electronic products such as computer chips are manufactured. The word is short for 'fabrication facility' and is used mainly in the semiconductor industry.
The company is building a new chip fab in Taiwan to produce the latest chips.
compound noun: chip fab
Wei works at a silicon wafer fab in Hsinchu Science Park.
A power outage forced the fab to shut down for three days, delaying many orders.
The new fab will create more than two thousand jobs for engineers and technicians.
Arjun's company supplies air-filter systems to semiconductor fabs across Asia.
- fabrication facility
the full form; used in formal or technical writing
- semiconductor plant
broader term that can include non-fabrication parts of the site
文法句型
chip fab
semiconductor fab
fab plant
用法筆記
Short for 'fabrication facility'. Always used as a technical term; not interchangeable with 'factory' in other industries. Often appears in compounds: 'chip fab', 'semiconductor fab', 'DRAM fab'.