Fiber vs. Roughage — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Fiber and Roughage
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Fiber
Fiber or fibre (from Latin: fibra) is a natural or man-made substance that is significantly longer than it is wide. Fibers are often used in the manufacture of other materials.
Roughage
See fiber.
Fiber
A slender, elongated, threadlike object or structure.
Roughage
Any rough or coarse material.
Fiber
(Botany) One of the elongated, thick-walled cells that give strength and support to plant tissue.
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Roughage
Originally (archaic), garbage, rubbish, or waste; later (agriculture) the portions of a crop which are discarded, such as husks, stalks, etc.; also, agricultural waste such as weeds.
Fiber
Any of the filaments constituting the extracellular matrix of connective tissue.
Roughage
(agriculture) Coarse or rough plant material such as hay and silage used as animal fodder.
Fiber
Any of various elongated cells or threadlike structures, especially a muscle fiber or a nerve fiber.
Roughage
(nutrition) Substances, generally of plant origin, consisting mostly of complex carbohydrates which are undigested when eaten by humans, and which therefore help the passage of food and waste through the alimentary tract; dietary fibre.
Fiber
A natural or synthetic filament, as of cotton or nylon, capable of being spun into yarn.
Roughage
Coarse food high in fiber but low in nutrients; its bulk stimulates peristalsis
Fiber
Material made of such filaments.
Fiber
An essential element of a person's character
"stirred the deeper fibers of my nature" (Oscar Wilde).
Fiber
Strength of character; fortitude
Lacking in moral fiber.
Fiber
Coarse, indigestible plant matter, consisting primarily of polysaccharides such as cellulose, that when eaten stimulates intestinal peristalsis. Also called bulk, roughage.
Fiber
(countable) A single elongated piece of a given material, roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibers to form thread.
The microscope showed a single blue fiber stuck to the sole of the shoe.
Fiber
(uncountable) A material in the form of fibers.
The cloth is made from strange, somewhat rough fiber.
Fiber
(textiles) A material whose length is at least 1000 times its width.
Please use polyester fiber for this shirt.
Fiber
Dietary fiber.
Fresh vegetables are a good source of fiber.
Fiber
(figuratively) Moral strength and resolve.
The ordeal was a test of everyone's fiber.
Fiber
(mathematics) The preimage of a given point in the range of a map.
Under this map, any two values in the fiber of a given point on the circle differ by 2π.
Fiber
(category theory) The pullback of a morphism along a global element (called the fiber of the morphism over the global element).
Fiber
(computing) A kind of lightweight thread of execution.
Fiber
(cytology) A long tubular cell found in bodily tissue.
Fiber
One of the delicate, threadlike portions of which the tissues of plants and animals are in part constituted; as, the fiber of flax or of muscle.
Fiber
Any fine, slender thread, or threadlike substance; as, a fiber of spun glass; especially, one of the slender rootlets of a plant.
Fiber
The inherent complex of attributes that determine a person's moral and ethical actions and reactions; sinew; strength; toughness; as, a man of real fiber.
Yet had no fibers in him, nor no force.
Fiber
A general name for the raw material, such as cotton, flax, hemp, etc., used in textile manufactures.
Fiber
That portion of food composed of carbohydrates which are completely or partly indigestible, such as cellulose or pectin; it may be in an insoluble or a soluble form. It provides bulk to the solid waste and stimulates peristalsis in the intestine. It is found especially in grains, fruits, and vegetables. There is some medical evidence which indicates that diets high in fiber reduce the risk of colon cancer and reduce cholesterol levels in the blood. It is also called dietary fiber, roughage, or bulk.
Fiber
A leatherlike material made by compressing layers of paper or cloth.
Fiber
A slender and greatly elongated solid substance
Fiber
The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions;
Education has for its object the formation of character
Fiber
A leatherlike material made by compressing layers of paper or cloth
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