| 单词 | fiber |
| 释义 | fiber (once / 967 pages) 1n 2n Almost all fabrics, muscle structures, and even vegetables are composed of some sort of fiber, the noun meaning a long, thread-like substance. The word fiber is sometimes associated with moral character in a similar way that it is related to the physical material. The moral fiber of a person might be the thing that weaves together their character to make them the ethical (or unethical) person they are. For example, you might guess that the televangelist who asks for money from the elderly poor, but has a fancy sports car for every day of the week lacks moral fiber. WORD FAMILYfiber: fibers, fibrous+/fibrous: fibrosity, fibrously, fibrousness USAGE EXAMPLESThe containers consist of an aluminum liner with an outer layer of strong carbon fibers. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) Wave Broadband, a Kirkland-based provider, recently raised $125 million to build more than 100 miles of fiber a month up and down the West Coast. Seattle Times(Dec 30, 2016) Officers in the bicycle unit are scheduled to get them by the end of May after police substations are wired with fiber optic cable. Washington Times(Dec 30, 2016) 1 1n a slender and greatly elongated substance capable of being spun into yarn Syn|Hypo|Hyper fibre beard, byssus tuft of strong filaments by which e.g. a mussel makes itself fast to a fixed surface bristlea stiff fiber (coarse hair or filament); natural or synthetic glass fiber, glass fibre, optical fiber, optical fibrea very thin fiber made of glass that functions as a waveguide for light; used in bundles to transmit images nerve fiber, nerve fibrea threadlike extension of a nerve cell spindle(biology) tiny fibers that are seen in cell division; the fibers radiate from two poles and meet at the equator in the middle loofa, loofah, loufah sponge, luffathe dried fibrous part of the fruit of a plant of the genus Luffa; used as a washing sponge or strainer Cebu maguey, cantala, manila magueyhard fiber used in making coarse twine; from Philippine agave plants bassinecoarse leaf fiber from palmyra palms used in making brushes and brooms coirstiff coarse fiber from the outer husk of a coconut raffiafiber of a raffia palm used as light cordage and in making hats and baskets stringa tough piece of fiber in vegetables, meat, or other food (especially the tough fibers connecting the two halves of a bean pod) fibril, filament, stranda very slender natural or synthetic fiber lintfine ravellings of cotton or linen fibers man-made fiber, synthetic fiberfiber created from natural materials or by chemical processes natural fiber, natural fibrefiber derived from plants or animals oakumloose hemp or jute fiber obtained by unravelling old ropes; when impregnated with tar it was used to caulk seams and pack joints in wooden ships raveling, ravellinga bit of fiber that has become separated from woven fabric barbone of the parallel filaments projecting from the main shaft of a feather cobweb, gossamerfilaments from a web that was spun by a spider chromatidone of two identical strands into which a chromosome splits during mitosis myofibril, myofibrilla, sarcostyleone of many contractile filaments that make up a striated muscle fiber medullated nerve fiber, myelinated nerve fibera nerve fiber encased in a sheath of myelin effectora nerve fiber that terminates on a muscle or gland and stimulates contraction or secretion axon, axonelong nerve fiber that conducts away from the cell body of the neuron dendriteshort fiber that conducts toward the cell body of the neuron efferent fiber, motor fibera nerve fiber that carries impulses toward the muscles or glands afferent fiber, sensory fibera nerve fiber that carries impulses toward the central nervous system pandanusfiber from leaves of the pandanus tree; used for woven articles (such as mats) New Zealand cottona fiber from the bast of New Zealand ribbon trees that resembles cotton fiber bowstring hempstrong fiber that resembles hemp; obtained from sansevieria and used for e.g. cordage rhizoidany of various slender filaments that function as roots in mosses and ferns and fungi etc hyphaany of the threadlike filaments forming the mycelium of a fungus paraphysisa sterile simple or branched filament or hair borne among sporangia; may be pointed or clubbed bast, bast fiberstrong woody fibers obtained especially from the phloem of from various plants animal fiber, animal fibrefiber derived from animals plant fiber, plant fibrefiber derived from plants acrylic, acrylic fiberpolymerized from acrylonitrile nylona thermoplastic polyamide; a family of strong resilient synthetic fibers staple, staple fiber, staple fibrea natural fiber (raw cotton, wool, hemp, flax) that can be twisted to form yarn material, stuff the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object 2n a leatherlike material made by compressing layers of paper or cloth Syn|Hyper fibre, vulcanized fiber cloth, fabric, material, textile artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers 3n any of several elongated, threadlike cells (especially a muscle fiber or a nerve fiber) Syn|Hypo|Hyper fibre muscle cell, muscle fiber, muscle fibre an elongated contractile cell that forms the muscles of the body nerve fiber, nerve fibrea threadlike extension of a nerve cell striated muscle cell, striated muscle fiberan elongated contractile cell in striated muscle tissue smooth muscle cellcells of the smooth muscles medullated nerve fiber, myelinated nerve fibera nerve fiber encased in a sheath of myelin effectora nerve fiber that terminates on a muscle or gland and stimulates contraction or secretion axon, axonelong nerve fiber that conducts away from the cell body of the neuron dendriteshort fiber that conducts toward the cell body of the neuron efferent fiber, motor fibera nerve fiber that carries impulses toward the muscles or glands afferent fiber, sensory fibera nerve fiber that carries impulses toward the central nervous system cell (biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; they may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals 4n the inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper character, fibre spirit a fundamental emotional and activating principle determining one's character braveness, bravery, courage, courageousnessa quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear cowardice, cowardlinessthe trait of lacking courage trait a distinguishing feature of your personal nature n coarse, indigestible plant food low in nutrients; its bulk stimulates intestinal peristalsis Syn|Hypo|Hyper fibre, roughage bran food prepared from the husks of cereal grains food product, foodstuff a substance that can be used or prepared for use as food |
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