What is the difference between fibre and card?
fibre | card |
(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.
(senseid)(uncountable) Material in the form of fibres.
Dietary fibre.
Moral strength and resolve.
(mathematics) The preimage of a given point in the range of a map.
(computing) A kind of lightweight thread of execution.
In context|computing|lang=en terms the difference between fibre and card
is that fibre is (computing) a kind of lightweight thread of execution while card is (computing) a removable electronic device that may be inserted into a powered electronic device to provide additional capability.As nouns the difference between fibre and card
is that fibre is (senseid)(countable) a single piece of a given material, elongated and roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibres to form thread while card is a playing card or card can be (uncountable|dated) material with embedded short wire bristles.As a verb card is
to check ids, especially against a minimum age requirement or card can be (textiles) to use a carding device to disentangle the fibres of wool prior to spinning.fibre
English
(wikipedia fibre)Alternative forms
* fiber (US)Noun
- The microscope showed several different fibres stuck to the sole of the shoe.
- The cloth was made from strange, somewhat rough fibre .
- ''Fresh vegetables are a good source of fibre .
- The ordeal was a test of everyone’s fibre .
- Under this map, any two values in the fibre of a given point on the circle differ by 2π