Synonyms of the word

fibril

• n. A fine fibre or filament.
• n. (biology) Any fine, filamentous structure in animals or plants.

fiber

• n. (countable) A single elongated piece of a given material, roughly round in cross-section, often twisted…
• n. (uncountable) A material in the form of fibers.
• n. (textiles) A material whose length is at least 1000 times its width.
• n. Dietary fiber.
• n. (figuratively) Moral strength and resolve.
• n. (mathematics) The preimage of a given point in the range of a map.
• n. (category theory) Said to be of a morphism over a global element: The pullback of the said morphism along…
• n. (computing) A kind of lightweight thread of execution.

fibre

• n. (countable) A single piece of a given material, elongated and roughly round in cross-section, often twisted…
• n. (uncountable) Material in the form of fibres.
• n. Dietary fibre.
• n. Moral strength and resolve.
• n. (mathematics) The preimage of a given point in the range of a map.
• n. (category theory) Said to be of a morphism over a global element: The pullback of the said morphism along…
• n. (computing) A kind of lightweight thread of execution.
• n. A long tubular cell found in muscle tissue; myocyte.

filament

• n. A fine thread or wire.
• n. Such a wire, as can be heated until it glows, in an incandescent light bulb or a thermionic valve.
• n. (physics, astronomy) A massive, thread-like structure, such as those gaseous ones which extend outward…
• n. (botany) The stalk of a stamen in a flower, supporting the anther.
• n. (textiles) A continuous object, limited in length only by its spool, and not cut to length.

strand

• n. The shore or beach of the sea or ocean; shore; beach.
• n. (poetic, archaic or regional) The shore or beach of a lake or river.
• n. A small brook or rivulet.
• n. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A passage for water; gutter.
• n. A street (perhaps from similarity of shape).
• v. (transitive, nautical) To run aground; to beach.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To leave (someone) in a difficult situation; to abandon or desert.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To cause the third out of an inning to be made, leaving a runner on base.
• n. Each of the strings which, twisted together, make up a yarn, rope or cord.
• n. A string.
• n. An individual length of any fine, string-like substance.
• n. (electronics) A group of wires, usually twisted or braided.
• n. (broadcasting) A series of programmes on a particular theme or linked subject.
• n. (figuratively) A sequence of linked events or facts; a logical thread.
• n. (genetics) A nucleotide chain.
• v. (transitive) To break a strand of (a rope).