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Castiron vs Fibre - What's the difference?

castiron | fibre |

As nouns the difference between castiron and fibre

is that castiron is an alternative spelling of cast iron while fibre is (single elongated piece of material) A single piece of a given material, elongated and roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibres to form thread.

As an adjective castiron

is an alternative spelling of cast iron.

castiron

English

Alternative forms

* cast-iron * cast iron

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • * 1974 , Hjalmar Thesan, Country Days: Chronicles of Knysna & the Southern Cape , David Philip (1974), ISBN 9780949968395, page 35:
    • Camped around its base and sleeping in a primitive 'skerm' of branches at night, with a bubbling castiron pot over a permanent fire, they would chip away until the great tree was down.
  • * 1986 , Donald Hall, The Happy Man: Poems , Random House (1986), ISBN 0394746120, page 21:
    • we add wood to the castiron stove, and midnight's
    candlelight trembles on the ceiling
  • * 1999 , Ken Hodgson, The Hell Benders , Pinnacle Books (1999), ISBN 9780786006700, page 139:
    • A large, castiron pot of beef stew was slowly simmering.
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    • Noun

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  • * 1989 , Popular Science , November 1989, page 133 (advertisement):
    • Build low-cost safe furnace to melt aluminum, brass, even 20 pounds of castiron !
  • * 1991 , Robin Clark, Divina Trace , Robin Clark (1991), ISBN 9780879514457, page 115:
    • (Of course, they ain't no churchveil in the world could withstand the bruising of a history like the one oldman Salizar and that Mother Maurina gave me later – unless of course it make from castiron – but fortunately enough I haven't heard of none of that nonsense yet.)
  • * 1995 , Paul Jackson, Smoking Allowed: A Pictorial Past of Honey Bee Smokers in the United States , A.I. Root Company (1995), ISBN 9780936028064, page 14:
    • The brackets attaching the fire chamber to the bellows are made from castiron .
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    • fibre

    English

    (wikipedia fibre)

    Alternative forms

    * fiber (US)

    Noun

  • (en noun) (British, Canada, Australia, Ireland, NZ, South Africa)
  • (senseid)(countable) A single piece of a given material, elongated and roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibres to form thread.
    • The microscope showed several different fibres stuck to the sole of the shoe.
  • (senseid)(uncountable) Material in the form of fibres.
    • The cloth was made from strange, somewhat rough fibre .
  • Dietary fibre.
    • ''Fresh vegetables are a good source of fibre .
  • Moral strength and resolve.
    • The ordeal was a test of everyone’s fibre .
  • (mathematics) The preimage of a given point in the range of a map.
    • Under this map, any two values in the fibre of a given point on the circle differ by 2π
  • (computing) A kind of lightweight thread of execution.

    • Related terms

    (Related terms) * dietary fibre * fibre bundle * fibreboard * fibreglass * fibre optics * fibrescope * fibril * fibrin * fibroid * fibrosis * fibrositis * fibrous * microfibre * moral fibre * natural fibre * synthetic fibre

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