FIBRE
\fˈa͡ɪbə], \fˈaɪbə], \f_ˈaɪ_b_ə]\
Definitions of FIBRE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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a leatherlike material made by compressing layers of paper or cloth
By Princeton University
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a leatherlike material made by compressing layers of paper or cloth
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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Any fine, slender thread, or threadlike substance; as, a fiber of spun glass; especially, one of the slender rootlets of a plant.
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Sinew; strength; toughness; as, a man of real fiber.
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A general name for the raw material, such as cotton, flax, hemp, etc., used in textile manufactures.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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Any fine, slender thread, or threadlike substance; as, a fiber of spun glass; especially, one of the slender rootlets of a plant.
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Sinew; strength; toughness; as, a man of real fiber.
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A general name for the raw material, such as cotton, flax, hemp, etc., used in textile manufactures.
By Noah Webster.
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One of the small threads composing the parts of animals or vegetables; any fine thread, or thread-like substance.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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A fine thread; a substance composed of threads or filaments.
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The essence of anything; strength; nerve.
By James Champlin Fernald
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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An organic filament, of a solid consistence, and more or less extensible, which enters into the composition of every animal and vegetable texture. The simple or elementary fibre of the ancients, from a particular assemblage and arrangement of which every texture of the body was conceived to be constituted, seems entirely ideal. The moderns usually admit, with Haller and Blumenbach, three elementary fibres or tissues. 1. The cellular or laminated, formed chiefly of thin plates, of a whitish colour and extensible, which seems to consist of concrete gelatin. 2. The nervous, pulpy, or medullary, formed of a soft substance, contained in a cellular sheath, and consisting of albumen united to a fatty matter. 3. The muscular, composed of round filaments, of a grayish or reddish colour, and formed of fibrin. Chaussier has added to these the albugineous fibre, but it seems to differ from the cellular fibre only in greater condensation of the molecules. See Fibrous. A very small or ultimate fibre is called a Fibril, Fibrilla.
By Robley Dunglison
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