Fibres - English meaning

noun

The mass or size of something large.

Usage examples:

Residents jump up and down on their rubbish to reduce its bulk

verb

Treat (a product) so that its quantity appears greater than it is.

Usage examples:

Traders were bulking up their flour with chalk

noun

A small or slender fibre.

Usage examples:

Each muscle fibre is subdivided into smaller fibrils

noun

A slender threadlike object or fibre, especially one found in animal or plant structures.

Usage examples:

Each myosin filament is usually surrounded by 12 actin filaments

noun

A thin thread or wire, esp. the wire inside a light bulb

noun

Fibrous indigestible material in vegetable foodstuffs which aids the passage of food and waste products through the gut.

Usage examples:

Fresh fruit and wholemeal bread are important sources of roughage in the diet

noun

→  fibre uk

verb

Leave (someone) without the means to move from somewhere.

Usage examples:

Two of the firm's trucks are stranded in france

noun

The shore of a sea, lake, or large river.

Usage examples:

A heron glided to rest on a pebbly strand

noun

A single thin length of something such as thread, fibre, or wire, especially as twisted together with others.

Usage examples:

Strands of coloured wool

noun

A slender threadlike appendage of a climbing plant, often growing in a spiral form, that stretches out and twines round any suitable support.

Usage examples:

Shoots were cut, divided into stems with broad leaves, tendrils, flowers, and fruits.

noun

A thin stem of a plant that twists and curls, or anything similar, such as a curl of hair

noun

A long, thin strand of cotton, nylon, or other fibres used in sewing or weaving.

Usage examples:

He had a loose thread on his shirt

verb

Pass a thread through the eye of (a needle) or through the needle and guides of (a sewing machine).

Usage examples:

I can't even thread a needle

verb

A fine cord of twisted fibers used in sewing and weaving