FIBRE

fiber, fibre, vulcanized fiber

(noun) a leatherlike material made by compressing layers of paper or cloth

character, fiber, fibre

(noun) the inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions; “education has for its object the formation of character”- Herbert Spencer

fiber, fibre

(noun) any of several elongated, threadlike cells (especially a muscle fiber or a nerve fiber)

fiber, fibre

(noun) a slender and greatly elongated substance capable of being spun into yarn

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

fibre (countable and uncountable, plural fibres) (British, Canada, Australia, Ireland, NZ, South Africa)

(countable) A single piece of a given material, elongated and roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibres to form thread.

(uncountable) Material in the form of fibres.

Dietary fibre.

Moral strength and resolve.

(mathematics) The preimage of a given point in the range of a map.

(category theory) Said to be of a morphism over a global element: The pullback of the said morphism along the said global element.

(computing) A kind of lightweight thread of execution.

A long tubular cell found in muscle tissue; myocyte.

Anagrams

• FBIer, brief, fiber

Source: Wiktionary


Fi"ber, Fi"bre, (, n. Etym: [F. fibre, L. fibra.]

1. One of the delicate, threadlike portions of which the tissues of plants and animals are in part constituted; as, the fiber of flax or of muscle.

2. Any fine, slender thread, or threadlike substance; as, a fiber of spun glass; especially, one of the slender rootlets of a plant.

3. Sinew; strength; toughness; as, a man of real fiber. Yet had no fibers in him, nor no force. Chapman.

4. A general name for the raw material, such as cotton, flax, hemp, etc., used in textile manufactures. Fiber gun, a kind of steam gun for converting, wood, straw, etc., into fiber. The material is shut up in the gun with steam, air, or gas at a very high pressure which is afterward relieved suddenly by letting a lid at the muzzle fly open, when the rapid expansion separates the fibers.

– Fiber plants (Bot.), plants capable of yielding fiber useful in the arts, as hemp, flax, ramie, agave, etc.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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