different between fibre vs mecate

English

Alternative forms

• fiber (US)

Etymology

From French fibre, from Old French, from Latin fibra.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?fa?.b?(?)/
• Rhymes: -a?b?(?)
• Hyphenation: fi?bre
• Homophone: fiber

Noun

fibre (countable and uncountable, plural fibres) (Britain, Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa)

2. (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.

4. (uncountable) Material in the form of fibres.

   The cloth was made from strange, somewhat rough fibre.

5. Dietary fibre.

   Fresh vegetables are a good source of fibre.

6. Moral strength and resolve.
   • 1900, Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, ch 2:

     He was gentlemanly, steady, tractable, with a thorough knowledge of his duties; and in time, when yet very young, he became chief mate of a fine ship, without ever having been tested by those events of the sea that show in the light of day the inner worth of a man, the edge of his temper, and the fibre of his stuff; that reveal the quality of his resistance and the secret truth of his pretences, not only to others but also to himself.

   The ordeal was a test of everyone’s fibre.

7. (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 2?

8. (category theory) Said to be of a morphism over a global element: The pullback of the said morphism along the said global element.
9. (computing) A kind of lightweight thread of execution.
10. A long tubular cell found in muscle tissue; myocyte.

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• FBIer, brief, fiber

Danish

Noun

fibre c pl

1. indefinite plural of fiber

French

Etymology

From Old French fibre, borrowed from Latin fibra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fib?/

Noun

fibre f (plural fibres)

1. fibre

Derived terms

• fibre de verre
• fibre optique

Related terms

Further reading

• “fibre” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Noun

fibre f pl

1. plural of fibra

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• fibere
• fibrer

Noun

fibre m pl

1. indefinite plural of fiber

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?fibre]

Noun

fibre f

1. indefinite plural of fibr?
2. indefinite genitive/dative singular of fibr?

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish mecate, from a Nahuan language; c.f. Classical Nahuatl mecatl.

Noun

mecate (plural mecates)

1. (US, Southwestern US) A rope of hair or maguey fibre, for tying horses, etc.

Anagrams

• McAtee, acteme

Ladino

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish mecate, from a Nahuan language; c.f. Classical Nahuatl mecatl.

Noun

mecate m (Latin spelling)

1. (Hekatia) a thick cord

References

• Bendayán de Bendelac, Alegría (1995) Diciconario del judeoespañol de los sefardíes del norte de Marruecos (Jaquetía tradicional y moderna), Caracas, page 464

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from a Nahuan language; c.f. Classical Nahuatl mecatl.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me?kate/, [me?ka.t?e]

Noun

mecate m (plural mecates)

1. (Central America, Mexico, Venezuela, Philippines) rope, cord

   Synonyms: cuerda, soga, cordel

Related terms

• zacamecate

Further reading

• “mecate” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.