fibren.
/ˈfʌɪbə/, U.S. /ˈfaɪbər/ a. A lobe or portion of the liver.
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the world > life > the body > secretory organs > gland > specific glands > [noun] > liver > lobe of
lapc1000
liver lapOE
fibre1398
mantle?c1425
boss?1541
lobe?1541
lop1601
fillet1607
lappet1609
fin1615
lobbet1662
acinus1701
spigelian lobe1811
Riedel's lobe1897
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) v. xxxix. 153 The endes of the lyuer hyght fybre for they..beclepyth the stomake.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 342 The lobes or fibres in the smal Liuers of certaine Mice.
b. plural. The entrails. Obsolete.
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the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > intestines > [noun]
tharma700
ropeeOE
wombeOE
entrailc1330
arse-ropesa1382
entraila1382
bowel1393
bellyc1400
manifold?c1400
gutc1460
tripe?a1505
trillibub1519
puddingsa1525
singles1567
fibre1598
intestine1598
gutlet1615
colon1622
garbage1638
pud1706
intestinule1836
1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Annales xiv. x. 209 They..aske counsell of their gods by the aspect of mans intrailes and fibres.
2. Physiology. One of a number of thread-like bodies or filaments, that enter into the composition of animal (muscular, nervous, etc.) and vegetable tissue.figurative.a1634 G. Chapman in Webster's Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. (1890) Yet had no fibres in him, nor no force.1638 W. Grant in G. Sandys Paraphr. Divine Poems Pref. Verse Truth..so sweetely strikes Upon the Cords, and Fivers of the Heart.1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fifth 60 The tender Tyes, Close-twisted with the Fibres of the Heart!1831 T. Carlyle in Edinb. Rev. Mar. 172 Every fibre of him is Philistine.1847 R. W. Emerson Poems 80 And of that fibre..Whose throbs are love.a1853 F. W. Robertson Lect. (1858) ii. 55 They are bound up in every fibre of my being.
a. in animals. fibres of Corti: see Cortian adj.
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the world > life > the body > bodily substance > fibre > [noun]
veina1398
fibre1607
fibrilla1666
fiberkie1668
the world > plants > part of plant > hair or bristle > [noun] > thread-like organ or filament
fibre1607
the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > essence or intrinsic nature > [noun]
pitheOE
i-cundeeOE
roota1325
substancec1330
juicec1380
marrowa1382
formc1385
acta1398
quidditya1398
substantial forma1398
inward1398
savourc1400
inwardc1450
allaya1456
essencya1475
being1521
bottom1531
spirit?1534
summary1548
ecceity1549
core1556
flower1568
formality1570
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alloy1594
soul1598
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quid1606
fibre1607
selfness1611
whatness1611
essentialityc1616
propera1626
the whole shot1628
substantiala1631
esse1642
entity1643
virtuality1646
ingeny1647
quoddity1647
intimacy1648
ens1649
inbeing1661
essence1667
interiority1701
intrinsic1716
stamen1758
character1761
quidditas1782
hyparxis1792
rasa1800
bone1829
what1861
isness1865
inscape1868
as-suchness1909
Wesen1959
the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > villosity or ciliation > [noun] > fibre or filament
filament1594
fibre1607
fibra1648
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 125 His blood..hath no Fibres or small veines in it.
1626 G. Sandys tr. Ovid Metamorphosis vi. 113 The threds Of life, his fiuers, wrathfull Delius shreds.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. xv. 142 Wormes..whose bodies consist of round and annulary fibers . View more context for this quotation
1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 5 Her wings look like a Sea-fan with black thick ribs or fibers, dispers'd..through them.
1705 F. Fuller Medicina Gymnastica 39 The Fibre it self strengthens by Use.
a1785 A. Parsons Trav. (1808) i. 7 The natives eat the myrtle berries as an astringent; their fibres being rendered extremely lax by the climate.
1793 T. Holcroft tr. J. C. Lavater Ess. Physiognomy (abridged ed.) xx. 98 In cold countries the fibres of the tongue must be less flexible.
1855 A. Bain Senses & Intellect Introd. ii. 15 The optic nerve..might contain as many as a million of fibres.
1888 J. Martineau Study Relig. I. ii. i. 305 Its two thousand fibres of Corti stretched.
b. in plants; esp. an elongated cell that lacks protoplasm, has thick walls and tapering ends, and serves to strengthen plant tissue.
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the world > plants > part of plant > cell or aggregate tissue > [noun] > cell > types of > stone-cell or fibre
fibre1663
sclerenchyma1875
stone cell1875
scleroblast1882
stone-element1884
sclereid1896
grit-cell1900
Malpighian cell1900
1663 A. Cowley Ode Dr. Harvey i No smallest Fibres of a Plant..His passage after her withstood.
1676 M. Hale Contempl. Moral & Divine i. 254 A Worm..gnaws asunder the Roots and Fibres of it.
1712 A. Pope tr. Ovid Fable Vertumnus & Pomona in Misc. Poems 130 The thirsty Plants..feed their Fibres with reviving Dew.
1791 W. Hamilton tr. C.-L. Berthollet Elements Art of Dyeing I. i. i. iii. 52 The vascular fibres of the bark.
1838 T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies ii. v. 984 There is..an attraction between vegetable fibres and watery liquids.
1857 A. Henfrey Elem. Course Bot. 513 Prosenchyma is composed of cells elongated greatly in one direction, and attenuated to a more or less acute point at each end, forming what is called a fibre.
1865 J. Lubbock Prehist. Times xi. 375 They also used the fibres of the cocoa-nut for making threads.
1919 F. O. Bower Bot. Living Plant ii. 28 The old name parenchyma is kept for a tissue of roughly spherical or oblong cells with square ends, while long thick-walled cells with pointed ends are called fibres.
1965 P. Bell & D. Coombe tr. Strasburger's Textbk. Bot. (new ed.) 107 Within the limit of elasticity, the load-bearing capacity of sclerenchyma fibres taken from the living plant is, generally speaking, equal to that of the best wrought iron.
3. One of the thread-like filaments of organic structure which form a textile or other material substance; also transferred of inorganic substances.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > [noun] > fibre of
staple1481
fibre1827
microfibre1966
modal1977
the world > space > shape > condition of being long in relation to breadth > [noun] > thread-like object
thread1398
filament1594
film1597
tendril1615
fibre1827
filamentule1837
fibril1876
threadlet1882
the world > matter > constitution of matter > other specific kinds of texture > [noun] > fibrous texture > a fibre
fibre1827
1827 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. ii. 49 A silk fibre.
1832 C. Babbage Econ. Machinery & Manuf. iv. 26 Twisting the fibres of wool by the fingers would be a most tedious operation.
1832 G. R. Porter Treat. Manuf. Porcelain & Glass 282 Delicate..fibres of glass joined with the greatest nicety.
1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 193 A very liquid lava may be caught by the wind, and drawn out into delicate fibres.
4. collective.
a. A substance consisting of fibres, whether animal or vegetable. Also, Fibrous structure.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > other specific kinds of texture > [noun] > fibrous texture
fibrousness1727
fibre1823
fibrillation1839
the world > matter > constitution of matter > other specific kinds of texture > [noun] > fibrous texture > substance
fibre1823
1823 W. Henry Elements Exper. Chem. (ed. 9) II. x. 256 The woody fibre..does not undergo any change.
1831 R. Knox tr. H. Cloquet Syst. Human Anat. (ed. 2) 7 Nervous fibre: this is the peculiar substance of which the brain and nerves are composed.
1849 H. Miller Foot-prints of Creator 188 (note) Pieces of coal which exhibit the ligneous fibre.
1850 R. W. Emerson Montaigne in Representative Men iv. 178 He has contrived to get so much bone and fibre as he wants.
1858 E. Lankester & W. B. Carpenter Veg. Physiol. (new ed.) §42 Even these primary tissues may be regarded as consisting of other parts still more simple,—namely, membrane and fibre.
b. figurative.
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the mind > mental capacity > disposition or character > [noun]
heartOE
erda1000
moodOE
i-mindOE
i-cundeOE
costc1175
lundc1175
evena1200
kinda1225
custc1275
couragec1300
the manner ofc1300
qualityc1300
talentc1330
attemperancec1374
complexionc1386
dispositiona1387
propertyc1390
naturea1393
assay1393
inclinationa1398
gentlenessa1400
proprietya1400
habitudec1400
makingc1400
conditionc1405
habitc1405
conceitc1425
affecta1460
ingeny1477
engine1488
stomach?1510
mind?a1513
ingine1533
affection1534
vein1536
humour?1563
natural1564
facultyc1565
concept1566
frame1567
temperature1583
geniusa1586
bent1587
constitution1589
composition1597
character1600
tune1600
qualification1602
infusion1604
spirits1604
dispose1609
selfness1611
disposure1613
composurea1616
racea1616
tempera1616
crasisc1616
directiona1639
grain1641
turn1647
complexure1648
genie1653
make1674
personality1710
tonea1751
bearing1795
liver1800
make-up1821
temperament1821
naturalness1850
selfhood1854
Wesen1854
naturel1856
sit1857
fibre1864
character structure1873
mentality1895
mindset1909
psyche1910
where it's (he's, she's) at1967
1864 A. Bain Senses & Intellect (ed. 2) ii. iv. 609 A man of the political fibre.
1872 W. Bagehot Physics & Polit. (1876) 47 There is an improvement in our fibre—moral, if not physical.
1885 Cent. Mag. 30 398/1 This love of fierce and cruel sport was in the fiber.
c. A structure characteristic of wrought metal in which there is a directional alignment or elongation of crystals or inclusions.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > qualities of metals > [noun] > characteristics of wrought metal
fibre1855
flow-line1882
1855 W. Truran Iron Manuf. xviii. 161 If the several layers [of metal] are thin and cross each other, the tendency of one layer to develope fibre is neutralized by the opposite tendency of the other.
1928 R. S. Williams & V. O. Homerberg Princ. Metallogr. (ed. 2) vi. 200 A study of fiber in steel is of great importance..in the manufacture of such articles as crankshafts, gears, and other forgings.
1966 McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. (rev. ed.) VIII. 286/2 Hot-working processes, such as forging, align the inclusions (fiber structure).
5. esp. A fibrous substance fit for use in textile fabrics.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > [noun]
textile1648
fibre1870
1870 J. Yeats Nat. Hist. Commerce 70 Vegetable fibres find India their most prolific home.
1875 D. Kay in Encycl. Brit. I. 565/1 The most important fibre is the crin vegetal..produced from the dwarf palm.
1879 J. Paton in Encycl. Brit. IX. 131/2 Textile Fibres..include all substances capable of being spun, woven, or felted.
1892 K. Tynan in Speaker 3 Sept. 290/1 [The roses] were swathed in cocoanut fibre and sacking.
6. A subdivision of a root, a small root or rootlet; occasionally of a twig.
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the world > existence and causation > causation > basis or foundation > [noun]
ground1340
root1340
substancec1384
fundament1395
foundationc1400
groundment?a1412
footing1440
anvila1450
bottom ground1557
groundwork1557
foot1559
platform1568
subsistence1586
subject matter1600
ground-colour1614
basisa1616
substratum1631
basement1637
bottoma1639
fonda1650
fibre1656
fund1671
fundamen1677
substruction1765
starting ground1802
fundus1839
the world > plants > part of plant > root > [noun] > rootlet, fibre, or subsidiary root
string1398
by-root1578
fillet1601
taw1615
tapon1641
fibre1656
fang1664
fibril1664
rootlinga1706
lateral root1724
rootlet1783
radicle1793
radicel1819
viver1877
branch-root1884
sprangle1896
thong1927
the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > [noun] > bough or branch > twig
stickeOE
twigc950
yardc950
sprintlea1250
ricec1275
twistc1374
sarmenta1398
tinea1400
lancec1400
pirnc1450
shred15..
shrubc1530
shrag1552
taunt1567
ramelet1652
hag wood1804
hag1808
fibre1810
twiglet1849
virgultum1866
thorn-twig1895
twigling1907
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Fibers, the smal threads, or hair-like strings of roots.
1694 Narbrough's Acct. Several Late Voy. ii. 56 The Root consists of many small Fibers.
1787 G. Winter New Syst. Husbandry 153 Their numerous fibres or lateral roots will extend themselves horizontally.
1807 J. E. Smith Introd. Physiol. & Systematical Bot. 105 After they [plants] have begun to throw out new fibres, it is more or less dangerous..to remove them.
1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake i. 31 Where weeping birch and willow round With their long fibres swept the ground.
1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound i. i. 27 To the last fibre of the loftiest tree.
a1855 W. T. Spurdens Forby's Vocab. E. Anglia (1858) III. 16 Fifers, the fibrous roots of a plant.
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the world > the universe > planet > [noun] > part of planet
terminator1661
belt1665
fascia1704
fibre1715
white spot1784
dayside1827
nightside1848
albedo1860
north pole1861
polar cap1863
core1882
regolith1897
tectonics1899
sediment ring1955
radiation belt1958
palaeo-radius1960
space needle1961
soil1967
1618 J. Kepler Epitome Astron. Copernicanæ v. 643 Posuimus, in cuiuslibet planetæ corpore duplices inesse fibras:..fibræ latitudinis fere quidem in parallelo situ manent toto circuitu.]
1715 tr. D. Gregory Elements Astron. I. i. §68. 139 [The Planet] will come nearer to the Sun, till the Right lines drawn according to the direction of this part, (that is, the Fibres along which this attractive Virtue is propagated from the Sun,)..are no more inclined to the Sun.
1715 tr. D. Gregory Elements Astron. I. i. §69. 143 In each Planet there are Fibres (which he calls from their Office, the Fibres of Latitude).
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
fibre-cultivation n.
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1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 21 July 7/1 The progress made in fibre cultivation in the colony.
fibre-dresser n.
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1904 Daily Chron. 9 Dec. 7/3 A younger brother, who was employed at a horse-hair and fibre dressers.
fibre-form n.
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1946 Nature 19 Oct. 553/2 Alginic acid yarn can be acetylated without loss of fibre-form.
fibre-machine n.
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1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 6 May 12/1 A few leaves..were recently passed through Death's fibre machine.
fibre-mute n.
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1946 A. L. Bacharach Brit. Music vii. 107 The trumpets should use fibre mutes (now in general use, but then confined to jazz bands) instead of the old pear~shaped brass ones.
fibre-dressing adj.
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1919 Brit. Manufacturer Nov. 25/1 Passing on to more specialised agricultural appliances, we find great attention paid to fibre-dressing machinery, especially in the Yorkshire and Lancashire districts.
fibre-forming adj.
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1946 Nature 28 Dec. 930/1 A new fibre-forming polymer..to which the name ‘Terylene’ has been provisionally assigned.
fibre-yielding adj.
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1908 R. W. Sindall Manuf. Paper ii. 40 A large and important genus of fibre-yielding plants.
C2.
fibre-basket n. (see quot.).
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the world > life > the body > sense organ > sight organ > parts of sight organ > [noun] > retina > sustenacular tissue
Müller1856
fibre-basket1884
1884 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Fibre-basket, Schultze's term for the sustentacular tissue of the retina.
fibreboard n. (also fibre-board) (a piece of) board made from compressed cellulosic fibrous material (as wood pulp).
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > wood-based materials > [noun] > chipboard or fibreboard
softboard1856
fibreboard1897
chipboard1898
beaver-board1909
wallboard1925
Masonite1926
Presdwood1927
woodchip board1947
particle board1954
MDF1972
medium density fibreboard1972
society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > material for making paper > paper > materials made from paper or pulp > [noun] > fibreboard
panel board1848
fibreboard1897
Essex board1933
1897 Sears, Roebuck Catal. No. 104. 616/2 Lunch boxes... Well made of compressed fibre board.
1916 Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric. No. 322 17 It would seem that tow would be a more desirable as well as a more profitable raw material than straw for the fiber-board manufacturer.
1950 C. C. Handisyde Building Materials xix. 263 Fibreboards should be unpacked and stacked on a clean dry surface.
1970 Nature 9 May 489/1 The chief problem with making fibre board from bagasse is that vast amounts of dust are created when the material is pulped.
fibre-cell n. (see quot. 1884).
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the world > life > the body > structural parts > muscle > muscle substance > [noun]
brawnc1325
mow1490
muscle1710
muscle cell1840
myosin1866
muscle-box1874
fibre-cell1878
myoblast1884
muscle-case1885
inogen1889
muscle casket1890
sarcomere1891
myofibril1898
myoplasm1907
myofibrilla1913
myotube1933
myofilament1949
myofibre1965
1878 F. J. Bell & E. R. Lankester tr. C. Gegenbaur Elements Compar. Anat. 31 The..contractile fibre-cells constitute the first form.
1884 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Fibre-cell, Kölliker's term for the fusiform, nucleated, cellular structures which form the involuntary muscles.
fibre-faced adj. (a) U.S. (paper) having a surface composed of visible fibres; (b) having a facing or coat of fibre.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > [adjective] > covered > with other specific coverings
featheredc1300
overskail1508
briereda1554
stone-faced1632
sodded1652
netted1800
foamed1820
fibre-faceda1884
society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > material for making paper > paper > [adjective] > having specific surface or texture
look-through1730
antique1826
surfaced1869
fibre-faceda1884
everdamp1888
surface coated1888
boardy1893
shivey1937
a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 332/2 Fiber-faced paper, a means of security against the restoration of the surface of check or draft-paper after it has been tampered with. It consists in imbedding in the pulp..a layer of fibers, the outer ends of which are then raised in the form of a nap, [etc.].
1922 Times 20 June 8/5 At right angles to this disc is a fibre-faced wheel which is mounted on a castellated shaft, along which it can be slid by means of the ‘gear’ lever.
fibre-gun n. (see quot.).
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1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Fiber-gun, a device for disintegrating vegetable fiber.
fibre needle n. a gramophone needle made of fibre.
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1913 Talking Machine News & Jrnl. Amusements Feb. 147/2 I should advise ‘Troubled’ to try the Fibre needles advertised in this paper.
1929 P. Wilson & G. W. Webb Mod. Gramophones 153 A fibre needle, in a sound-box specially made for it.
fibre optics n. the study and application of the transmission of images by means of total internal reflection through fibres of glass or other transparent solids.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > light > reflection > [noun] > study of
catoptrics1570
anacamptics1696
catadioptrics1755
geometrical optics1835
fibre optics1956
1956 Times 3 Dec. 59/1 If one beam of light can be transmitted along a glass tube, why not transmit detailed images along the same path?.. Dr. Narinder Singh Kapany, 30, has succeeded by applying a technique he refers to as ‘fiber optics’.
1956 Times 3 Dec. 59/1 Fiber optics derives its name from its use of hair-thin strands of optical glass as light carriers.
1957 N. S. Kapany in Jrnl. Optical Soc. Amer. 47 117 (heading) An introduction to fiber optics.
1961 Engineering 4 Aug. 134/1 Fibre optics grew out of a need to look round corners, e.g. into complex castings or inside the kidney of a living person.
1970 Times Lit. Suppl. 23 July 817/1 The action of the vocal cords during speech can be observed..through a flexible fiber-optics tube which is inserted through the nose so that its end hangs above the vocal cords.
fibre-optic adj.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > light > reflection > [adjective] > relating to fibre optics
fibre-optic1961
1961 Flight 79 728/1 Windows in the passenger cabin..may be augmented by closed-circuit television or ‘fibre optic’ devices.
1965 Amer. Jrnl. Cardiol. 15 672/1 The fiberoptic system depends upon the efficient transmission of light lengthwise along glass fibers, each of which has a core of high refractive index and a sheath of low refractive index.
fibre plant n. any plant that produces a fibre of commercial value.
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the world > plants > valued plants and weeds > [noun] > valued plant > yielding dye, oil, fibre, etc.
oil wort1493
indigo1600
oil plant1756
indigo-plant1758
thread-plant1882
fibre plant1887
1887 C. A. Moloney Sketch Forestry W. Afr. 277 ‘Buaze’ fibre plant of the Zambesi (Securidaca longipedunculata).
1957 Encycl. Brit. VII. 939/1 The fibre plant Carludovica palmata (not a palm), used for making Panama hats.
fibre-saturation point n. in the drying of timber, the point at which the cell cavities have lost all their moisture but none has been removed from the cell walls, corresponding in most woods to a moisture content of about 30 per cent of the dry weight.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > [noun] > point of moisture saturation
fibre-saturation point1930
1930 Forestry 4 34 The loss of the free moisture marks the first stage in drying at any point in the wood, and it is not until this moisture has all gone and the stage known as ‘the fibre saturation point’ is reached, that the cell~walls begin to dry.
fibre-stitch n. (see quots.).
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > consisting of loops or looped stitches > lace > loops or stitches
purl1564
jours1865
punto a maglia1865
whole stitch1870
fibre-stitch1882
hollie stitch1882
star1882
streak stitch1882
Venetian stitch1882
leadwork1900
Kat stitch1919
1882 S. F. A. Caulfeild & B. C. Saward Dict. Needlework 204/2 Fibre Stitch. A stitch used in Honiton and other Pillow Laces to make open leaves, with a fibre running down their centres.
1957 M. B. Picken Fashion Dict. 129 Fiber-stitch, stitch used in bobbin lace.
fibre stress n. the local longitudinal stress in a body at a point in, or along a line through, a cross-section over which the stress is not uniform.
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the world > matter > physics > mechanics > force > stress or force exerted and tending to deform > [noun] > other specific types of stress
shear1850
shear strain1856
bending stress1858
proof strain1858
proof stress1862
shearing stress1869
shear stress1872
water stress1895
slip1900
fibre stress1905
hoop stress1909
1905 A. H. Heller Stresses in Structures vii. 91 The maximum unit fiber stress (working stress).
1931 G. A. Garratt Mech. Properties Wood iv. 200 In large beams the weight should be taken into account in calculating the fiber stress.
1952 Special Rep. Iron & Steel Inst. XLIII. iv. 171/2 The maximum fibre stress in bending may be distinctly less than that based on an elastic state of distribution.
fibre-tip adj. (also fibre-tipped) of a pen: having a tip made of tightly-packed capillary fibres which hold the ink; cf. felt pen n. at felt n.1 Compounds 4; also elliptical as fibre tip n.
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society > communication > writing > writing materials > writing instrument > [adjective] > having specific type of tip
relief1898
fibre-tip1974
1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XIX. 1046/1 A Japanese-made fibre-tipped pen found great success in the Japanese and U.S. markets beginning in 1964.
1985 Observer 10 Mar. (Colour Suppl.) 31/1 There is an overwhelming choice of felt and fibre tipped pens on the market.
fibre tip n.
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society > communication > writing > writing materials > writing instrument > [noun] > pen > felt-tip pen > with tip of tightly-packed capillary fibres
fibre tip1969
1965 Geyer's Dealer Topics July 54/2 Fine point marking pen has acrylic fiber-tip.]
1969 Encycl. Amer. XV. 180/1 The greatest progress in the development of writing inks has taken place since the 1940's..due to the development..of..the ball-point pen, the felt-tip marker, and the fiber-tip pen.
1971 Sunday Times 31 Oct. 17/3 Ball-points, fibre-tips and fountain pens all freeze up, as does the hand that tries to push them in sub-zero conditions.
1976 Electr. Australia Apr. 75/1 A Nestler B5 pen generally gives more control than is possible with brushes or fibre tips.
1983 Austral. Microcomputer Mag. Sept. 89/4 Wet ink drawing pens, felt-tip markers and fibre-tip pens may be used.
fibre-tracheid n. Botany a fibre-like tracheid that typically has a thick wall, tapering ends, and bordered pits with slit-like apertures.
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the world > plants > part of plant > cell or aggregate tissue > [noun] > tissue > vessel(s) > wood-vesselor -cell
trachea1744
wood-vessel1796
tracheid1875
fibre-tracheid1898
tracheome1900
1898 H. C. Porter tr. E. Strasburger et al. Text-bk. Bot. 129 In Oaks, Beeches, and in the Rosiflorae wood fibres are absent, and the necessary rigidity is provided for by fibre tracheids.
1953 K. Esau Plant Anat. x. 204 Wall thickness and particularly the nature of pitting are used to differentiate between the two main categories of wood fibers, fiber-tracheids and libriform fibers.
fibre tract n. [tract n.3 3b(a)] a bundle of nerve-fibres, esp. one in which the fibres have a common origin, termination, and function.
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the world > life > the body > nervous system > substance of nervous system > [noun] > nerve fibre > band or collection of
file1607
funiculus1824
nerve filament1839
fillet1840
nerve fibril1851
lemniscus1857
nerve cord1864
nerve bundle1865
nerve branch1874
nerve plexus1877
nerve tract1877
neuropilema1891
neuropil1894
fibre tract1904
1904 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. 1 53 Fibre-tracts from corresponding halves of the retinae both go to the occipital region of one and the same hemisphere.
1959 Chambers's Encycl. IX. 771/2 The medulla oblongata contains nerve cells and fibre tracts associated with certain of the cranial nerves.
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Dietary material that is resistant to the action of the digestive enzymes, consisting chiefly of the cell walls of plants; roughage. Also dietary fibre.
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the world > food and drink > food > consistency of food > [noun] > fibrous or soluble matter
rough food1701
roughage1850
fibre1909
bulk1940
soluble1952
1909 Amer. Jrnl. Physiol. 24 103 The intake of crude fibre was reduced to that of normal bran.
1937 Ann. Internal Med. 10 965 There exists a quantitative relation between the amount of crude fiber ingested and the laxative result.
1966 Jrnl. Dairy Sci. 49 1046/1 Twenty-four Holsteins..were used..to study the effect of dietary fiber level on intake and performance.
1975 Washington Post 27 Apr. c6 The need for fiber or, as grandmother used to call it, roughage.
1984 S. Abraham & D. Llewellyn-Jones Eating Disorders ix. 127 Increased dietary fibre may prevent you from developing certain diseases.., such as haemorrhoids, irritable bowel, diverticular disease, [etc.].
1986 Here's Health Apr. 127/2 Bran is one type of fibre, nature's own ‘filler’ that is present only in plant foods and is essential for proper digestion and elimination.
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fibrefill n. [introduced by E. I. Du Pont de Nemours Inc., Wilmington, Delaware, and ‘dedicated to the public as a generic’ (private letter to R.W.B., 8 May 1969)] originally U.S. a kind of material made of synthetic fibres, used for padding garments, cushions, quilts, etc.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > treated or processed textiles > [noun] > man-made textiles
fibrefill1963
1963 N.Y. Times 22 Dec. 13 Parka..insulated with 100% Vycron virgin polyester fiberfill for warmth without weight.
1967 Times 17 May 19 Prices of filament yarns, industrial yarns and fibrefill remain unchanged.
1972 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 18 June 7/3 Dacron fibrefill II is non-allergic and moth, vermin and mildew resistant.
1989 B. A. Mason Love Life 23 Steve works at the mattress factory. The factory is long and low and windowless, and bales of fiberfill hug the walls.
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fibre art n. originally North American art or an art form that uses textiles (sometimes with other materials) as a medium; creative or decorative textile articles considered as art.
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1953 San Mateo (Calif.) Times 14 Nov. 7/1 Mrs. Breeding, who is from a San Mateo shop specializing in artificial floral designing, will speak on ‘Floral Fiber Art Design’.
1981 Leonardo 14 257/2 Waller's book provides a very good source of reference for students of fibre art, and artists involved in this art form will find it stimulating and thought provoking.
1986 ASA News 19 32 An opportunity to explore the great West African traditions in ceramics, fiber arts and metalsmithing.
1994 Midwest Home & Design Summer 13/2 Encompassing fiber art from Peruvian artists of 2,000 years ago to works from the present, the assemblage includes West African strip cloth, Middle Eastern animal trappings, and European decorative ribbon.
2011 Bedfordshire on Sunday (Nexis) 26 June All kinds of materials and accessories for creating your own individual works of fibre art, be that clothing or furnishings, or art for art's sake, will be on sale.
fibre artist n. originally North American a person who creates fibre art.
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1971 Craft Horizons Oct. 24/1 I consider myself a fiber artist working in experimental areas and materials.
1989 Sunday Mail (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 1 Jan. On view will be works by contemporary Australian and European fibre artists.
2007 R. Lee Contemp. Knitting 6 This book sets knitting in a modern context for the contemporary fibre artist, craft maker, textiles student and enthusiast.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
fibrev.
/ˈfʌɪbə/, U.S. /ˈfaɪbər/ rare.
intransitive. Of plants: To form or throw out fibres.
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the world > plants > by growth or development > grow or vegetate [verb (intransitive)] > sprout or put forth new growth
spriteOE
wrideOE
brodc1175
comea1225
spirec1325
chicka1400
sprouta1400
germin?1440
germ1483
chip?a1500
spurgea1500
to put forth1530
shootc1560
spear1570
stock1574
chit1601
breward1609
pullulate1618
ysproutc1620
egerminate1623
put1623
germinate1626
sprent1647
fruticate1657
stalk1666
tiller1677
breerc1700
fork1707
to put out1731
stool1770
sucker1802
stir1843
push1855
braird1865
fibre1869
flush1877
the world > plants > part of plant > root > plant defined by roots > have root [verb (intransitive)] > take root
to take roota1400
roota1425
take?1440
to take rooting1548
sprig1611
radicate1656
to strike root (also roots)1658
tap-root1769
to make root1856
fibre1869
1869 Daily News 6 Feb. The plant is sufficiently strong, with ample room to fibre as prodigally as it likes.
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v.1869- balance-man
- balance-master
- balance-mistress
- balance-reef
- balance-reefed
- balance-seat
- balance-spring
- balance-staff
- balance-step
- balance-watch
- balance-wheel
- balance-wise
- balance-yard
- balanceable
- balancearc
- balancebeam
- ballasting up
- ballastless
- ballastman
- ballastport
- ballasts
- ballata
- ballate
- ballatoon
- ballbearinged