Fiber vs Basketry - What's the difference?
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As nouns the difference between fiber and basketry is that fiber is (countable) a single elongated piece of a given material, roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibers to form thread while basketry is the process of weaving unspun vegetable fibers to make a basket.
fiber English
Alternative forms
* fibre (chiefly British)
Noun
( en noun)
(countable) A single elongated piece of a given material, roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibers to form thread.
- The microscope showed a single blue fiber stuck to the sole of the shoe.
(uncountable) A material in the form of fibers.
- The cloth is made from strange, somewhat rough fiber .
(textiles) A material whose length is at least 1000 times its width.
- Please use polyester fiber for this shirt.
Dietary fiber.
- ''Fresh vegetables are a good source of fiber
(figuratively) Moral strength and resolve.
- The ordeal was a test of everyone's fiber .
(mathematics) The preimage of a given point in the range of a map.
- ''Under this map, any two values in the fiber of a given point on the circle differ by 2π
(computing) A kind of lightweight thread of execution.
Derived terms
{{der3, dietary fiber
, fiber bundle
, fiberboard
, fibered
, fiberglass
, fiberize
, fiber optics
, fiberscope
, fibril, fibrilar
, fibrin, fibrinous
, fibrinogen
, fibrinolysin
, fibroblast
, fibrocyte
, fibroid
, fibroma
, fibrosis
, fibrositis
, fibrous
, fibrovascular
, microfiber
, moral fiber
, natural fiber
, synthetic fiber}}
Anagrams
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basketry Noun
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The process of weaving unspun vegetable fibers to make a basket.
baskets collectively
Synonyms
* basketmaking, basket weaving
See also
* basketmaker
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