Fibre

Definitions

1. Each one of the filaments that go in in the composition of the organic tissues vegetables or animal.
2. A single piece of a given material, elongated and roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibres to form thread.
   countable
3. Material in the form of fibres.
   uncountable
4. Dietary fibre.
   countable, uncountable
5. Moral strength and resolve.
   countable, uncountable
6. The preimage of a given point in the range of a map.
   countable, uncountable
7. Said to be of a morphism over a global element: The pullback of the said morphism along the said global element.
   countable, uncountable
8. A kind of lightweight thread of execution.
   countable, uncountable
9. A long tubular cell found in bodily tissue.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

38 more languages

Afrikaansdraadvesel

العربيةالليفليف

Българскивлакнонишкахарактер

Bosanskikakavlaknoвлакно

Catalàfibra

Češtinavlákno

Danskfiber

Ελληνικάίνα

فارسیفیبر

Suomikuitusäiesuoraselkäisyyssyy+ 1 more

Gàidhligreumhag

ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻiʻaʻā

עבריתסיב

Hrvatskikakaveselvlaknoвлакно+ 1 more

Magyarfonaljellemtermészet

Bahasa Indonesiaserat

Italianofibrafibre

日本語ファイバー繊維

Қазақ тіліталшық

한국어섬유힘줄

Kurdîlîf

Latinafibra

Latviešušķiedra

Te Reo Māorikaka

Македонскивлакно

മലയാളംനാര്

Bahasa Melayuserat

Nederlandsdraadmoraalvezel

Polskiwłókno

Portuguêsfibra

Românăfibra

Русскийволокноволосокнитьфи́бра+ 1 more

Српскиkakavlaknoвлакно

Svenskafiber

Tagaloghiblahimaymay

Türkçelif

Українськаволокно

Tiếng Việtsoi

Examples

“The microscope showed several different fibres stuck to the sole of the shoe.”

“The cloth was made from strange, somewhat rough fibre.”

“Fresh vegetables are a good source of fibre.”

“The ordeal was a test⟳ of everyone’s fibre.”

“He was gentlemanly, steady, tractable, with a thorough knowledge of his duties; and in time, when yet very young, he became chief mate of a fine ship, without ever having been tested by those events of the sea that show⟳ in the light⟳ of day the inner worth of a man, the edge of his temper, and the fibre of his stuff; that reveal⟳ the quality of his resistance and the secret truth of his pretences, not only to others but also to himself.”

“Under this map, any two values in the fibre of a given point⟳ on the circle differ⟳ by 2π.”

“It is the deeper parts of such cells which give⟳ rise⟳ to delicate muscular fibres or networks of fibres, while the superficially placed body of the cell myoblast), the part which produces the above, performs other functions, and usually bears a cilium.”

CEFR level