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
- noun A thin, thread-like strand of material, often twisted together with others to make thread or cloth.
- noun The indigestible part of plant food that helps digestion.
- noun Inner strength or moral resolve.
filament — full definition
- noun A very thin thread or wire-like strand.
- noun The thin coil inside an incandescent light bulb that glows white-hot when electricity passes through it.
- noun In botany, the thin stalk of a stamen that holds up the anther in a flower.
- noun A continuous spool of material, such as the plastic thread fed into a 3D printer.