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Fibre   /fˈaɪbər/   Listen
Fibre

noun
1.
A slender and greatly elongated substance capable of being spun into yarn.  Synonym: fiber.
2.
Any of several elongated, threadlike cells (especially a muscle fiber or a nerve fiber).  Synonym: fiber.
3.
The inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions.  Synonyms: character, fiber.
4.
A leatherlike material made by compressing layers of paper or cloth.  Synonyms: fiber, vulcanized fiber.



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"Fibre" Quotes from Famous Books



... to great heats and chills, women and children whose nervous energy is small, are liable to this skin failure. Kneipp linen underwear, besides being more absorbent of perspiration than woollens, has a stimulating effect on the skin owing to a certain hardness (by no means unpleasant) of the fibre. Wearing it is an excellent preventive of skin failure (see Underwear). This may also be treated by careful, kindly rubbing over the whole body with warm olive oil, the patient being kept warm during the operation. ...
— Papers on Health • John Kirk

... Scott thank John Knox, for he owed him much, little as he dreamed of debt in that quarter! No Scotchman of his time was more entirely Scotch than Walter Scott: the good and the not so good, which all Scotchmen inherit, ran through every fibre of him.' Nothing more true; and the words would be as strikingly appropriate if for Walter Scott we substitute Thomas Carlyle. And to this source of sympathy we might add others. Who in this generation could rival Scott's talent for the picturesque, unless it be Carlyle? Who has done so much to ...
— Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) • Leslie Stephen

... and very wearying. Only the elderly sociologist, whose mental fibre was so tough as to be insentient, seemed to be thoroughly happy. Birkin was down in the mouth. Hermione appeared, with amazing persistence, to wish to ridicule him and make him look ignominious in the eyes of everybody. ...
— Women in Love • D. H. Lawrence

... think that I grew as fine pineapples and bananas as were produced anywhere. The pineapple of good stock and ripened on the plant is, I think, the most exquisite of all fruits. A really ripe pine contains no fibre. You cut the top off and sup the delicious mushy contents ...
— Ranching, Sport and Travel • Thomas Carson

... who furnish the usual quantity of milk without the exhaustion experienced by the class just described. The milk of these women is of poor quality. It is abundant, but watery. Their infants are pallid having soft and flabby fibre.' ...
— The Physical Life of Woman: - Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother • Dr. George H Napheys


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