Word for the day: fibre

 

fibre   |ˈfʌɪbə|             *fibra (in Spanish)



 DEFINITION

noun
1 a thread or filament from which a vegetable tissue, mineral substance, or textile is formed: the basket comes lined with natural coco fibres.• a substance formed of fibres: ordinary synthetics don't breathe as well as natural fibres | [ mass noun] : high strength carbon fibre.• a thread-like structure forming part of the muscular, nervous, connective, or other tissue in the human or animal body: there were degenerative changes in muscle fibres | figurative : she wanted him with every fibre of her being.• (also moral fibre ) [ mass noun ] strength of character: a weak person with no moral fibre.2 [ mass noun ] dietary material containing substances such as cellulose, lignin, and pectin, that are resistant to the action of digestive enzymes.

ORIGIN Late Middle English (in the sense ‘lobe of the liver’, (plural) ‘entrails’): via French fromLatin fibra ‘fibre, filament, entrails’.

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