Fiber

(noun.) a leatherlike material made by compressing layers of paper or cloth.

(noun.) any of several elongated, threadlike cells (especially a muscle fiber or a nerve fiber).

(noun.) a slender and greatly elongated substance capable of being spun into yarn.

凯西整理

• When yarn is dyed, the coloring matter penetrates to every part of the fiber, and hence the patterns formed by the weaving together of well-dyed yarns are very fast to light and water. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• The operator in Fig. 6 is shown assembling switch plugs and is in the act of driving home a screw which holds in place the fiber bar over which the cord bends. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Its fiber is very long, ranging from six to ten feet, and is noted for its smoothness and pliability, a feature which makes it ideal for rope making. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Another and cheaper product experimented with is the pith of the cornstalk, which is much lighter than the cocoanut fiber and serves the same purpose. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• These arrow-heads have generally a shoulder where the arrow was set into the shaft, there to be bound tightly with sinew or fiber. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• This combed out the matted tow of the hemp into clean, straight fiber. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• As Manila fiber is at times adulterated with Sisal, so has the latter its adulterant in a plant called Istle, which grows in Mexico and has hitherto been chiefly used in brush making. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The crab begins by tearing the husk, fiber by fiber, and always from that end under which the three eye-holes are situated. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• American hemp was used, this softer fiber being spun by hand long after Manila hemp was spun by machines. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• A certain flabbiness of fiber prevents the contemplated object from gripping him and engaging him in action. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• These matches were fuses of some slow-burning fiber, like tow, which would keep a spark for a considerable time. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Now, in every fiber of his being, heredity spoke louder than training. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Of the annual import of this fiber to the United States, 300,000,000 pounds in quantity, a large proportion finds its way to the wheat fields of the West. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• It differs from the Manila fiber, which has now very largely supplanted it, by being much softer, though of less strength. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Everybody knows what rope is, but everybody does not know how rope is made or of what kinds of fiber it is manufactured. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The nerve fibers of the eye which carry the sensation of color to the brain are particularly sensitive to the primary colors--red, green, blue. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• The color acquired by vegetable fibers is, therefore, usually faint. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• For animal fibers it is therefore necessary to discard chlorine as a bleaching agent, and to substitute a substance which will have a less disastrous action upon the fibers. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Among the fibers employed in rope making that of the hemp plant long held the supremacy, though in recent years it has been largely supplemented by other and stronger fibers. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Oiling is also an important process in the manufacture of ropes from hard fibers, as Manila, Sisal and New Zealand. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The pressure is so great that every opening between the fibers of cotton, every space between threads is forced full of rubber. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• This is greatly increased by twisting the fibers together, and is added to by the toughness of the fibers themselves, the whole giving to rope a great resisting power. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Suppose the nerve fibers responsible for carrying the red are totally defective. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Natural fibers, moreover, are difficult to spin and weave unless some softening material such as wax or resin is rubbed lightly over them. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• The vibration of the ear drum will be transmitted by the three bones and the fluid to the fibers of the auditory nerves. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Its cheapness recommends it despite the fact that it is not of equal strength, and also that its fibers are shorter, being from two to four feet in length. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Manila and Sisal Fibers. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• This labyrinth is filled with a fluid in which are spread out the delicate sensitive fibers of the auditory nerves; and it is to these that the vibrations must be transmitted. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• There are various other fibers known under the name of hemp, the New Zealand, African, Java, etc. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Two other rope-making fibers of importance are the Sunn hemp of India and cotton, ropes of the latter being largely used for certain purposes, such as driving parts of textile machinery. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.

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