Fibre

Noun

 * 1)  A single piece of a given material, elongated and roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibres to form thread.
 * The microscope showed several different fibres stuck to the sole of the shoe.
 * 1)  Material in the form of fibres.
 * The cloth was made from strange, somewhat rough fibre.
 * 1) Dietary fibre.
 * ''Fresh vegetables are a good source of fibre.
 * 1) Moral strength and resolve.
 * The ordeal was a test of everyone’s fibre.
 * 1)  The preimage of a given point in the range of a map.
 * Under this map, any two values in the fibre of a given point on the circle differ by 2&pi;

Related terms

 * dietary fibre
 * fibre bundle
 * fibreboard
 * fibreglass
 * fibre optics
 * fibrescope
 * fibril
 * fibrin


 * fibroid
 * fibrosis
 * fibrositis
 * fibrous
 * moral fibre
 * natural fibre
 * synthetic fibre

Verbs for Fibre
bind with —; compose of —; connect —s; consist of —; develop —; draw into —; exhibit —; furnish with —; join —; knot —; produce —; rig with —; shred —; stretch —; swathe in —; twist —; weave —; — connects; — girdles; — hangs; — links.

Thesaurus
cast, character, composition, constitution, essence, fabric, filament, material, mould, nature, quality, strand, stripe, structure, substance, tendril, texture, thread

Alternative forms

 * fiber

Etymology
From fibre:

Translations

 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:
 * Hungarian: rostszál, fonál
 * Italian:


 * Macedonian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, волосок, фибра,


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Italian:


 * Macedonian:
 * Persian: فیبر
 * Russian:


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: suoraselkäisyys


 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian:


 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Italian:


 * : (Ansh), তন্তু (Tantu)
 * : 纤维 (xianwei)


 * : 繊維 (せんい, sen’i)
 * : fibra
 * : vlakno (1), vlaknina  (4)

Anagrams

 * brief
 * fiber

Etymology
fibre: < fibra:

Noun

 * 1) fibre

Related terms

 * fibranne
 * fibreux
 * fibrille


 * fibrine
 * fibrociment
 * fibrome

Derived terms

 * fibre de verre
 * fibre optique

Noun
fibre