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FIBRE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A leatherlike material made by compressing layers of paper or cloth
Synonyms:
fiber; fibre; vulcanized fiber
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("fibre" is a kind of...):
cloth; fabric; material; textile (artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
Example:
education has for its object the formation of character
Synonyms:
character; fiber; fibre
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("fibre" is a kind of...):
trait (a distinguishing feature of your personal nature)
Meronyms (parts of "fibre"):
thoughtfulness (the trait of thinking carefully before acting)
responsibility; responsibleness (a form of trustworthiness; the trait of being answerable to someone for something or being responsible for one's conduct)
integrity (moral soundness)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fibre"):
spirit (a fundamental emotional and activating principle determining one's character)
Holonyms ("fibre" is a part of...):
personality (the complex of all the attributes--behavioral, temperamental, emotional and mental--that characterize a unique individual)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Any of several elongated, threadlike cells (especially a muscle fiber or a nerve fiber)
Synonyms:
fiber; fibre
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("fibre" is a kind of...):
cell ((biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; they may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fibre"):
muscle cell; muscle fiber; muscle fibre (an elongated contractile cell that forms the muscles of the body)
nerve fiber; nerve fibre (a threadlike extension of a nerve cell)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A slender and greatly elongated substance capable of being spun into yarn
Synonyms:
fiber; fibre
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("fibre" is a kind of...):
material; stuff (the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object)
Meronyms (substance of "fibre"):
cellulose (a polysaccharide that is the chief constituent of all plant tissues and fibers)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fibre"):
raveling; ravelling (a bit of fiber that has become separated from woven fabric)
oakum (loose hemp or jute fiber obtained by unravelling old ropes; when impregnated with tar it was used to caulk seams and pack joints in wooden ships)
natural fiber; natural fibre (fiber derived from plants or animals)
man-made fiber; synthetic fiber (fiber created from natural materials or by chemical processes)
lint (fine ravellings of cotton or linen fibers)
fibril; filament; strand (a very slender natural or synthetic fiber)
string (a tough piece of fiber in vegetables, meat, or other food (especially the tough fibers connecting the two halves of a bean pod))
raffia (fiber of a raffia palm used as light cordage and in making hats and baskets)
coir (stiff coarse fiber from the outer husk of a coconut)
bassine (coarse leaf fiber from palmyra palms used in making brushes and brooms)
cantala; Cebu maguey; manila maguey (hard fiber used in making coarse twine; from Philippine agave plants)
loofa; loofah; loufah sponge; luffa (the dried fibrous part of the fruit of a plant of the genus Luffa; used as a washing sponge or strainer)
spindle ((biology) tiny fibers that are seen in cell division; the fibers radiate from two poles and meet at the equator in the middle)
nerve fiber; nerve fibre (a threadlike extension of a nerve cell)
glass fiber; glass fibre; optical fiber; optical fibre (a very thin fiber made of glass that functions as a waveguide for light; used in bundles to transmit images)
bristle (a stiff fiber (coarse hair or filament); natural or synthetic)
beard; byssus (tuft of strong filaments by which e.g. a mussel makes itself fast to a fixed surface)
Context examples:
But her pulse, her blood, every fibre of her, loved it and yearned for it, and, in the old, inexplicable way, she leaned toward him, not away from him.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Every part, brain and body, nerve tissue and fibre, was keyed to the most exquisite pitch; and between all the parts there was a perfect equilibrium or adjustment.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
The white-skinned, fair-haired savages who created that terrible pantheon were of the same fibre as he.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
It is found in all the secretions from mucous glands, and also between the fibres of connective tissue, as in tendons.
(Mucin, NCI Thesaurus)
Graphene integrated in a photonic circuit is a low cost, scalable technology that can operate fibre links at a very high data rates.
(Graphene may exceed bandwidth demands of future telecommunications, University of Cambridge)
In nature, animals such as chameleons and cuttlefish are able to change colour thanks to chromatophores: skin cells with contractile fibres that move pigments around.
(Colour-changing artificial ‘chameleon skin’ powered by nanomachines, University of Cambridge)
Although I possessed the capacity of bestowing animation, yet to prepare a frame for the reception of it, with all its intricacies of fibres, muscles, and veins, still remained a work of inconceivable difficulty and labour.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
A very slender, longitudinal column of motor neurons in the ventrolateral medulla oblongata; its efferent fibres leave with the vagus and glossopharyngeal nerve and innervate the striated muscle fibres of the pharynx (including the musculus levator veli palatini) and the vocal cord muscles of the larynx.
(Nucleus Ambiguus, NCI Thesaurus)
While the bacteria are killed, the researchers had a pristine membrane with a high quality of nanocellulose fibres that was able to filter water twice as fast as commercially available ultrafiltration membranes under high operating pressure.
(Novel Technology Uses Bacteria for Cleaning Water, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Most negative electrodes in current lithium-ion batteries are made of graphite, which has a high energy density, but when charged at high rates, tends to form spindly lithium metal fibres known as dendrites, which can create a short-circuit and cause the batteries to catch fire and possibly explode.
(New class of materials could be used to make batteries that charge faster, University of Cambridge)
