fibre

fibre has 9 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 5.

Definitions

• n.. One of the delicate, threadlike portions of which the tissues of plants and animals are in part constituted; as, the fiber of flax or of muscle.
• n.. Any fine, slender thread, or threadlike substance; as, a fiber of spun glass; especially, one of the slender rootlets of a plant.
• n.. Sinew; strength; toughness; as, a man of real fiber.
• n.. A general name for the raw material, such as cotton, flax, hemp, etc., used in textile manufactures.
• A tough vegetable fiber used as a substitute for bristles in making brushes. The piassava and the ixtle are both used under this name.
• n.. a leatherlike material made by compressing layers of paper or cloth
• n.. the inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions; "education has for its object the formation of character"- Herbert Spencer
• n.. any of several elongated, threadlike cells (especially a muscle fiber or a nerve fiber)
• n.. a slender and greatly elongated substance capable of being spun into yarn