Fiber

Definition: Fiber

Fiber

Noun

1. A slender and greatly elongated solid substance.

2. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions: "education has for its object the formation of character"- Herbert Spencer.

3. A leatherlike material made by compressing layers of paper or cloth.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "fiber" was first used: 1540. (references)

Food & Agriculture

General

Mining

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Fiber

Connection

Bond, tendon, tendril; fiber; cord, cordage; riband, ribbon, rope, guy, cable, line, halser, hawser, painter, moorings, wire, chain; string; (filament).

Filament

Noun: filament, line; fiber, fibril; funicle, vein; hair, capillament, cilium, cilia, pilus, pili; tendril, gossamer; hair stroke; veinlet, venula, venule.

Crosswords: Fiber

German (fiber, fibre, fibula), Norwegian (fibre), Swedish (fiber, fibre, filament, grain, string, thread), Turkish (fiber, fibre).

High fiber. (Batman Returns; writing credit: Bob Kane; Daniel Waters)

Well, he's always been lacking in moral fiber. (Trainspotting; writing credit: Irvine Welsh; John Hodge)

Sick Boy's always been lacking in moral fiber. (Trainspotting; writing credit: John Hodge. Based on the novel by Irvine Welsh.)

I felt it just surging through me, every fiber of my being (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Within every fiber of your being you are truly a manslayer (Rurouni Kenshin; writing credit: Johan Unenge; Måns Gahrton)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Alliance Fiber Optic Products Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Asia Fiber Public Co Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Chia Hsin Food and Synthetic Fiber Co.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Shin Yin Fiber: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Daehan Synthetic Fiber: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Fiber Optic Test and Measurement (reference)

• Optical Fiber Communications with CD-ROM (reference)

• The Miracle Diet Cookbook: Easy Permanent Weight Loss Cookbook: Fat Free, Cholesterol Free, High Fiber (reference)

• Your Personal Nutritionist Fiber and Fat Counter (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Hangug Seomyu Gonghag Hoe Ji = Journal Of Korean Fiber Socie (reference)

• Fiber In The Loop (reference)

• Man-made Fiber Update (reference)

• Fiber Organon (reference)

• Ca Selects: Fiber Reinforced Plastics (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Music

• Fiber Optic Fables (reference)

• Fiber Ortix (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• BOGEN 3443D Carbon Fiber Tripod (reference)

• Kodak Gear Aero Collection Micro Fiber Compact Video/Photo Bag (reference)

• D-Link Transceiver 100MBs RJ45 Sc Fiber Media Converter (reference)

• SIIG Fiber Optic 32Bit PCI Card Fast Enet 100Bfx Sc (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• 32-Ounce Fiber Cleansing Formula for Deep Cleaning Machines (reference)

• Bissell 710 Fiber Cleansing Formula with Scotchgard Protector (reference)

• DeWalt DW4535 4-1/2" x 7/8" 36-Grit Fiber Disc (5-Pack) (reference)

• Kett KC193 Variable Speed Fiber Cement Siding Shear (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Shown are 2 bowls of cereal and 2 bran muffins garnished with a strawberry against a black background. These are foods containing grains and fiber. See artwork: PV-44. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).

Shown is french toast made with whole grain bread to increase fiber. This was a poster in the "Healthy Eating Tips" series. See artwork: PV-30. Credit: Len Rizzi (photographer).

Histopathology of lung showing ferruginous body. A fiber of asbestos or related substance is coated by an iron-protein complex and surrounded by macrophages. Prussian blue iron stain. Credit: CDC.

Cow manure showing proper fiber and moisture content indicating balanced feed. Benton, Arkansas. Credit: Jeff Vanuga.

Yolo county farmer checks bird nest near restored wetland. Farmers provide valuable wildlife habitat as well as producing food and fiber. Credit: Gary Kramer.

Cotton fiber spooling at the ARS Cotton Quality Research Station in Clemson, South Carolina. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

Lead tree, Leucaena leucocephala, is checked under field conditions for such traits as flower color and flowering date, pests, and maturity. The plant is used for fiber and livestock feed. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

Chemist Kevin Hicks checks the color and quality of a corn fiber oil sample. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Keith Weller..

Sweet, juicy strawberries not only taste good, they're also full of nutrition. Low in calories and carbohydrates, the raw fruit is a good source of fiber potassium, iron, and vitamin C. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Keith Weller..

In studies to improve cotton fiber quality, Stay-in School student Nikola Lockett measures the growth of cotton plants. Credit: USDA ARS News.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Health

Eat more fiber. (references)

Many foods contain soluble and insoluble fiber. (references)

Fiber aids digestion and helps prevent constipation. (references)

Business

The year 1999 was a great year for fiber optics in Argentina. (references)

The label must bear an accurate description of the fiber content. (references)

Wireless, PCS, and fiber optics are the most promising subsectors. (references)

Economic History

Panama

Panama is also becoming a hub for submarine fiber optic cables. (references)

Canada

Fiber optic cable and wireless are particularly strong subsectors. (references)

India

The OFCs are made of optical fiber, which is indigenously available. (references)

Political Economy

Algeria

The agricultural sector, which produces grains, fruit, cattle, fiber, vegetables, and poultry, makes up 10 to 12 percent of the economy. (references)

Trade

Argentina

For trade in agricultural products, several steps must be correctly taken to ensure that U.S. food and fiber can be sold in the Argentine market. (references)

Bangladesh

A 2.5% infrastructure development surcharge is levied on almost all imports, excepting rice, raw hides, cotton, synthetic fiber, and computer hardware and software. (references)

Travel

Nicaragua

Nicaragua's communication system (telephone, telex, etc.) is being updated with the installation of fiber optic technology. (references)

Indonesia

Phone service is good along the main business thoroughfares and the newer residential areas, which are served by fiber optic trunk lines. (references)

Thailand

Thailand's economic plunge in 1997 caused a sharp decline in the demand for telecommunications services that included landline telephone, cellular phone, radio communications, paging, and VSAT services . Consequently, planned investments in the expansion of 6 million landline telephones and cellular phones in the radio frequency ranges of 1500 and 1900-megahertz have been deferred . However, the installation of rural public long distance telephone lines and the installation of submarine fiber optic cable were not affected by the economic crisis. (references)

Worker Rights

Sri Lanka

Children also are involved in the manufacture of coconut fiber products, bricks, fishing, wrapping tobacco, street trading, and farming. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "fiber": acrylic fiber ♦ animal fiber ♦ asbestos fiber ♦ axial fiber ♦ bark fiber ♦ bast fiber ♦ boron fiber ♦ Castor fiber ♦ dark fiber ♦ dietary fiber ♦ dim fiber ♦ equivalent fiber stress at maximum load ♦ extrinsic fiber loss ♦ fiber board ♦ fiber bundle ♦ fiber cable ♦ fiber cladding ♦ fiber distributed data interface ♦ fiber glass ♦ Fiber gun ♦ fiber loss ♦ fiber optic cable ♦ fiber optic cladding ♦ fiber optic dispersion ♦ fiber Optic InterRepeater Link ♦ fiber optics ♦ fiber optics cladding ♦ fiber pen ♦ Fiber plants ♦ fiber recovering ♦ fiber show ♦ fiber wash ♦ Fiber zibethicus ♦ filament fiber ♦ FP fiber ♦ glass fiber ♦ hybrid Fiber Coax ♦ in the fiber direction ♦ interlocked fiber ♦ line fiber ♦ medullated nerve fiber ♦ moral fiber ♦ motor nerve fiber ♦ muscle fiber ♦ myelinated nerve fiber ♦ natural fiber ♦ nerve fiber ♦ optical fiber ♦ optical fiber cable ♦ optical fiber cladding ♦ optical fiber coupler ♦ pita fiber ♦ plant fiber ♦ plastic optical fiber ♦ polyester fiber ♦ puerperal fiber ♦ Purkinje fiber ♦ striated muscle fiber ♦ Sula fiber ♦ synthetic fiber ♦ tail fiber ♦ Tampico fiber ♦ tecum fiber ♦ vegetable fiber ♦ viscose fiber ♦ viscose rayon fiber ♦ vulcanized fiber ♦ wood fiber ♦ Woody fiber ♦ wool fiber. Additional references.

Beginning with "fiber": Fiber-faced, fiber-optic, fiber-optic transmission system, fiber-seeking backhoe.

Ending with "fiber": muscle-fiber.

Albanian

fije (cord, fibre, glimmering, leaf, none, sheet of paper, string, thread, wire, wisp, yarn), fibër (fibre), karakter (character, ethos, fibre, format, grain, kind, make, mettle, Mold, mould, nature, persona, size, sort, temper). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مادة مصنوعة من ألياف (fibre), ‏ليف (bast, fibre, fibrilla, floss), ‏خيط (cord, fibre, filament, line, string, thread, twist, yarn), ‏خلق (create, creation, differentiate, habit, inspire, make, mood, nil). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сила (definition, drive, dynamism, effect, energy, feck, fibre, flush, force, forcefulness, forte, goodness, hardness, impetus, intension, intensity, inwardness, kick, lustiness, medium, might, mightiness, muscle, muscularity, nerve, pith, potency, power, prowess, punch, sinews, snap, stamina, strength, stringency, tenacity, thews, tuck, vehemence, verve, vigor, vigour, vim, vinegar, violence, virility, virtue, virulence, vis, volume, zap, zip), характер (character, complexion, constitution, disposition, fibre, grit, grittiness, individuality, kidney, make, make up, mentality, metal, mettle, mould, nature, pattern, spirit, stuff, temper, turn), фибра (fibre), тъкан съставена от влакна (fibre), коренче (fibre, radicle, rootlet), клетъчно влакно (fibre), нерв (fibre, nerve), нишка (clew, clue, fibre, ply, strand, thread, train), мускулно влакно (fibre), жичка (fibre, ply, strand), жилка (fibre, film, nerve, spice, strain, streak, stria, thread, tinge, vein), лико (bass, bast, fibre, liber, raffia, raphia), природа (composition, country, fibre, grain, kind, make up, nature, scenery, temper), издържливост (fibre). (various references)

Chinese 

纖維 , 纤维质 (Fibre, roughage). (various references)

Czech

vlákno (fibre, filament, grain, staple, strand, string, thread). (various references)

Danish

fibre (fibre), fiber (brin, fibre). (various references)

Dutch

vezel (fibre). (various references)

Esperanto

fibro (fibre). (various references)

Farsi 

فیبر (Fiber-Fibre), نخ (Cotton, Fiber-Fibre, String), تار (Caliginous, Chord, Dim, Fiber-Fibre, Filament, Nebulous, Obscure), بافت (Fiber-Fibre, Texture, Tissue, Weave). (various references)

Finnish

kuitu (fibre. fiber). (various references)

French

fibre (fibre). (various references)

German

faser (fiberUS, fibre, grain, thread). (various references)

Greek 

ις,ίνα (fibre), ίνα (fibre). (various references)

Hebrew 

ליף (fibre), אופי (character, nature, strain), חוט (cord, fibre, line, staple, strand, string, thread, wire), סיב (fibre, floss, staple, string). (various references)

Hungarian

rost (broiler, fibre, filament, string). (various references)

Italian

fibra (courage, fibre, filament, texture). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

繊維　 (fibre, textile), 繊維 (fibre, textile), フーゼル油 (far, Far East, farce, farm, farm stay, fast, fast back, fast break, fast food, fiberboard, fiberglass, fiberscope, fibre, fight, fight money, fighter, fighting spirit, file, filename, filesystem, filing system, final, final set, finance, fire, fire alarm, fire insurance, fire storm, fireman, fireproof, firewall, firm, firm banking, firmware, first, first impression, first lady, first run, first-class, first-name, five-star, food, food processor, Fourier, fur, fur coat, furniture, fusel oil, hood, hoop, pharmacy, purse, whodunit). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ファイバー (fibre), ファイバ (fibre), せ�"い (fibre, fighting spirit, ship's doctor, textile, transition, usurpation of a throne). (various references)

Korean 

섬� (Fibre). (various references)

Pig Latin

iberfay.(various references)

Portuguese

fibra (fibre, grain, ply, thread), filamento (barb, carbon, fibre, filament, thread). (various references)

Romanian

fire (character, disposition, feather, fibre, grain, mettle, nature, sort, spirit, temper), filament (fibre, filament, streamer, thread), fibrã (fibre, grain, lint, staple, string, thread), naturã (character, color, colour, disposition, fibre, kidney, kind, life, mother nature, nature, spirit). (various references)

Russian 

фибра (fibre), волокно волоконный (fibre), волокно (fibre, filament, lint, staple, thread). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vlakno (fibre, pile). (various references)

Spanish

fibra (fibre, filament, grain, string, thread, vein). (various references)

Swedish

fiber (fibre, filament, grain, string, thread). (various references)

Thai

เส้นใย (fibre, fila, filament), ลักษ�"ะสำคัญ (fibre). (various references)

Turkish

fiber (fibre), yapı (architecture, being, blood, build, building, chemistry, composition, conformation, constitution, construction, contexture, corpus, disposition, edifice, erection, fabric, fibre, form, frame, framework, habit, habit of body, make, make up, making, Mold, mould, nature, organism, presence, quality, set up, strain, structural, structure, system, texture, works), tel (chord, fibre, string, thread, wire, wiry), lif (fibre, fibroid, fibrous, filament, film, staple, string, thread, washcloth), kişilik (character, fibre, for ... persons, for person, humanity, identity, personality, seated, seater, self, stature), karakter (character, constitution, fibre, form, person, persona, personage, personality, self, strain), iplik (fibre, ficelle, strand, thread, yarn), elyaf (fibre, fibrilla, staple). (various references)

Turkmen 

sьяьm. (various references)

Ukrainian

фібр (fibre), волокно (fibre, wool), лико (bast, chip, fibre). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thớ sợi phíp cấu tạo có thớ (fibre). (various references)

fibra, fila, fili, filo, filum. (various references)

faluppa. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "fiber": fiberboard, fiberboards, fibered, fiberfill, fiberfills, fiberglass, fiberglassed, fiberglasses, fiberglassing, fiberization, fiberizations, fiberize, fiberized, fiberizes, fiberizing, fiberoptic, fiberoptics, fibers, fiberscope, fiberscopes. (additional references)

Words ending with "fiber": interfiber. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Fiber" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ciber, Eibar, faba, fabee, fabet, fabor, fabre, fabrex, fatber, Fbie, fbr, feba, febe, Febem, Febor, Ferber, fiba, Fibak, fibe, fibes, fibet, Fibi, fibo, fibra, fibrel, fibu, fibure, ficer, fieb, fier, fiera, fiero, figer, fiker, Filbey, Finbarr, Finberg, fitba, fiter, fivbe, fizer, fube, fuber, Fulber, Fyba, hiber, ibir, kiber, Kibir, niber, Piber, viber, Vibert. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: brief, fibre.

-1 letter: bier, brie, fire, reif, rife.

-2 letters: fer, fib, fie, fir, ire, reb, ref, rei, rib, rif.

-3 letters: be, bi, ef, er, if, re.

+1 letter: briefs, fibber, fibers, fibres.

+2 letters: barefit, beefier, bonfire, briefed, briefer, briefly, buffier, debrief, febrile, fibbers, fibered, filbert, firebox, firebug, freebie, friable, fribble, frisbee, fubsier, verbify.

+3 letters: afebrile, backfire, balefire, barflies, basifier, befinger, befriend, befringe, belfried, belfries, biforate, biforked, biformed, bonfires, briefers, briefest, briefing, bushfire, debriefs, febrific, fiberize, fibranne, fibroses, filberts, fimbriae, fireable, fireback, fireball, firebase, firebird, fireboat, firebomb, firebrat, firebugs, flabbier, forcible, forelimb, freebies, fribbled, fribbler, fribbles, frisbees.