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fibre (iou)



fibre noun. Also *fiber. LME.
[Old & mod. French from Latin fibra.]
A lobe of the liver; in pl., the entrails. LME-E17.
Anatomy & Zoology. Any threadlike structure forming part of the muscular, nervous, connective, or other tissue in an animal body. M16.
yellow fibre: see YELLOW adjective.
T. Holcroft In cold countries the fibres of the tongue must be less flexible. B. Bainbridge Straining in every fibre I crouched there, panting.
Botany. A threadlike element in plant tissue; spec. an elongated thick-walled cell lacking protoplasm. M17.
W. Hamilton The vascular fibres of the bark.
A slender subdivision of a root. M17.
A thread or filament forming part of a textile. Also, a thread formed from glass, metal, etc. E19.
carbon fibre, glass fibre, etc.
F. Smyth Smith set to work on the rest of the fluff, and found..fibres of wool, cotton,..and jute.
collect. Any material consisting of animal, vegetable, or man-made fibres; esp. one that can be spun, woven, or felted. Also, fibrous structure. E19.
Hugh Miller Pieces of coal which exhibit the ligneous fibre. Wall Street Journal The company entered the man made fiber field with rayon.
fig. Essential character or make-up. M19.
moral fibre: see MORAL adjective.
N. Monsarrat We are not all made of the same stern fibre.
Metallurgy. A structure characteristic of wrought metal in which there is a directional alignment or elongation of crystals or inclusions. M19.
The part of a foodstuff that cannot be digested or absorbed; roughage. Also dietary fibre. E20.
Comb.: fibreboard (a sheet of) compressed wood or other plant fibre, used as a building material; fibrefill material made of synthetic fibres, used for padding garments, cushions, etc.; fibre-optic adjective relating to or used in fibre optics; fibre optics the transmission of light by total internal reflection through fibres of glass or other transparent solids; fibre-tip adjective & noun (a) adjective fibre-tipped; (b) noun a fibre-tipped pen; fibre-tipped adjective (of a pen) having a tip made of tightly packed capillary fibres which hold the ink.
fibred adjective furnished with fibres (chiefly as 2nd elem. of comb.). M17.
fibreless adjective having no fibres or strength M19.
fibrescope noun a fibre-optic device for viewing inaccessible internal structures, esp. in the human body M20.