batiste vs fabric

batiste and fabric both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
batiste	Yes	No	No	No
fabric	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, fabric is a hypernym of batiste; that is, fabric is a word with a broader meaning than batiste:

batiste: a thin plain-weave cotton or linen fabric; used for shirts or dresses
fabric: artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers

Other hypernyms of batiste include cloth, material, textile.

batiste (noun)	fabric (noun)
a thin plain-weave cotton or linen fabric; used for shirts or dresses	artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers
	the underlying structure