fibre
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How to use fibre in a sentence
The process would be able to produce wood and fibre in a lab environment, and researchers have already demonstrated how it works in concept by growing simple structures using cells harvested from zinnia leaves.
MIT develops method for lab-grown plants that eventually lead to alternatives to forestry and farming | Darrell Etherington | January 20, 2021 | TechCrunchYou will hardly know who I am or what I mean, But I shall be good health to you nevertheless, And filter and fibre your blood.
The length of the fibre, moreover, cannot be determined with any absolute certainty from the thickness of the vein.
Asbestos | Robert H. JonesThe fibre can be separated with great facility, though firmly attached at one end to the parent rock.
Asbestos | Robert H. JonesPete, after spewing the last hateful molecule away, reversed his tiny fibre engines, and began to draw in.
Old Friends Are the Best | Jack Sharkey
Gwynne awoke one morning with an irresistible desire for The Town in every fibre of his being.
Ancestors | Gertrude AthertonWhen the respiratory elements and fibre have not been separated, the sum of the two is given.
Elements of Agricultural Chemistry | Thomas Anderson
British Dictionary definitions for fibre
US fiber
/ (ˈfaɪbə) /
a natural or synthetic filament that may be spun into yarn, such as cotton or nylon
cloth or other material made from such yarn
a long fine continuous thread or filament
the structure of any material or substance made of or as if of fibres; texture
essential substance or nature: all the fibres of his being were stirred
strength of character (esp in the phrase moral fibre)
See dietary fibre
botany
a narrow elongated thick-walled cell: a constituent of sclerenchyma tissue
such tissue extracted from flax, hemp, etc, used to make linen, rope, etc
a very small root or twig
anatomy any thread-shaped structure, such as a nerve fibre
Origin of fibre
1Derived forms of fibre
- fibred or US fibered, adjective
- fibreless or US fiberless, adjective
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