Definitions for fibres

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fibres fi·bre

Spelling: [fahy-ber]

IPA: /ˈfaɪ bər/

Fibres is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 118 anagrams from letters in fibres (befirs).

Definitions for fibres

noun

1. fiber.
2. a fine, threadlike piece, as of cotton, jute, or asbestos.
3. a slender filament:
4. filaments collectively.
5. matter or material composed of filaments:
6. something resembling a filament.
7. an essential character, quality, or strength:
8. Botany. filamentous matter from the bast tissue or other parts of plants, used for industrial purposes. a slender, threadlike root of a plant. a slender, tapered cell which, with like cells, serves to strengthen tissue.
9. Anatomy, Zoology. a slender, threadlike element or cell, as of nerve, muscle, or connective tissue.
10. Nutrition.. Also called bulk, dietary fiber, roughage. the structural part of plants and plant products that consists of carbohydrates, as cellulose and pectin, that are wholly or partially indigestible and when eaten stimulate peristalsis in the intestine. food containing a high amount of such carbohydrates, as whole grains, fruits, and vegetables.
11. Chemistry. vulcanized fiber.
12. Optics. optical fiber.

Origin of fibres

1350-1400; 1970-75 for def 9; Middle English fibre (Middle French) Latin fibra filament

Examples for fibres

I luxuriate in it, I joy in it, I feel it in every fibre of my being.

Lydia looked the unmovable obstinacy she felt stiffening every fibre of her.

He also describes a machine for separating the seed from the fibre or lint.

He waited, every nerve and fibre of him tense for her answer.

It is a quality of my fibre, divinely inwoven like mind in matter.

You 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.

It had brought out every fibre of his being, every muscle of his soul.

"You 'll not leave me," said she, in a low tone, which thrilled through every fibre of his heart.

A kind of universal cramp seized me—a contraction of every fibre of my body.

It was the trap, ever the trap, the fear of it lurking deep in the life of him, woven into the fibre of him.