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säie — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • fibre noun A thin, thread-like strand of material, often twisted together with others to make thread or cloth.
  • filament noun A very thin thread or wire-like strand.
  • ply verb To work steadily at something, or use a tool with regular effort.
  • strand noun One of the individual threads or wires twisted together to make a rope, cable, or cord.
  • string noun A thin cord or length of twisted thread, or a similar thin, flexible strand.
  • thread noun A thin, long strand of spun fiber used for sewing or weaving.

Senses

säie is used for these senses in English:

  • fibre (countable) A single piece of a given material, elongated and roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibres to form thread.
  • fibre (mathematics) The preimage of a given point in the range of a map.
  • filament A fine thread or wire.
  • ply A strand that, twisted together with other strands, makes up rope or yarn.
  • strand Each of the strings which, twisted together, make up a yarn, rope or cord.
  • strand A string.
  • string (countable, physics) A tiny one-dimensional string-like entity, the main object of study in string theory, a branch of theoretical physics.
  • thread A line of reasoning, sequence of ideas, or train of thought.

fibre — full definition

  1. noun A thin, thread-like strand of material, often twisted together with others to make thread or cloth.
  2. noun The indigestible part of plant food that helps digestion.
  3. noun Inner strength or moral resolve.

filament — full definition

  1. noun A very thin thread or wire-like strand.
  2. noun The thin coil inside an incandescent light bulb that glows white-hot when electricity passes through it.
  3. noun In botany, the thin stalk of a stamen that holds up the anther in a flower.
  4. noun A continuous spool of material, such as the plastic thread fed into a 3D printer.

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