Filament - English meaning

noun

A thick rope of wire or hemp used for construction, mooring ships, and towing vehicles.

Usage examples:

Steel cables held the convoy together

verb

Send a message to (someone) by cablegram.

Usage examples:

He cabled her to cancel all arrangements

noun

(a length of) wire, esp. twisted into thick, strong rope or used to carry electricity

Usage examples:

[ c ] they dug up the road in order to lay phone cables.

noun

A short microscopic hairlike vibrating structure found in large numbers on the surface of certain cells, either causing currents in the surrounding fluid, or, in some protozoans and other small organisms, providing propulsion.

Usage examples:

Some single-celled organisms called protists do in fact use cilia on their cell surface to swim thr…

noun

One of the very small parts like hairs on the surface of a cell that move regularly and keep the surrounding liquid moving around it or help an organism with only one cell to move

noun

Thin, flexible string or rope made from several twisted strands.

Usage examples:

Hang the picture from a rail on a length of cord

verb

Attach a cord to.

Usage examples:

You will need to cord the blind

noun

(a length of) rope or string made of twisted threads

Usage examples:

Where's the cord that ties back the curtains?

noun

A thread or filament from which a vegetable tissue, mineral substance, or textile is formed.

Usage examples:

The basket comes lined with natural coco fibres

noun

A thread-like part made from plants or artificial material which can be made into products

Usage examples:

Natural fibres such as cotton tend to be cooler., artificial/man-made/synthetic fibre(s), they use …

noun

Any of the thread-like parts that form plant or artificial material and can be made into cloth

Usage examples:

The fibres are woven into fabric.

noun

A small or slender fibre.

Usage examples:

Each muscle fibre is subdivided into smaller fibrils

noun

A thread-like structure of living tissue, such as those found in muscle

Usage examples:

Collagen fibrils in smooth muscle probably play an important role in intercellular transmission of …

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

Material consisting of threads of cotton, hemp, or other material twisted together to form a thin length.

Usage examples:

Unwieldy packs tied up with string

verb

Short for stringboard.

noun

A thin length of cord

Usage examples:

[ u ] a piece of string, guitar strings are made from steel or nylon., violins, cellos, and double …

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

noun

Metal drawn out into the form of a thin flexible thread or rod.

Usage examples:

A coil of copper wire

verb

Install electric circuits or wires in.

Usage examples:

Wiring a plug