Fibre vs Yan - What's the difference?
fibre | yan |
(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.
(cardinal, North East England, dialect) one
(cardinal, North West England, dialect) one in Cumbrian sheep counting rhyme.
(Yan Tan Tethera)
As a noun 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 a numeral yan is
one.As a proper noun Yan is
an ancient march, duchy, and kingdom of northeastern China during the Zhou dynasty.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