a man who is engaged to be married

a woman who is engaged to be married

a sudden and violent collapse

a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge)

money that the government declares to be legal tender although it cannot be converted into standard specie

a trivial lie

tell a relatively insignificant lie

someone who tells lies

a trivial act of lying or being deliberately unclear

a slender and greatly elongated substance capable of being spun into yarn

coarse, indigestible plant food low in nutrients; its bulk stimulates intestinal peristalsis

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

the inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions

a leatherlike material made by compressing layers of paper or cloth

a bundle of fibers (especially nerve fibers)

a cable made of optical fibers that can transmit large amounts of information at the speed of light

the transmission of light signals via glass fibers

of or relating to fiber optics

a communication system using fiber optic cables

wallboard composed of wood chips or shavings bonded together with resin and compressed into rigid sheets

a covering material made of glass fibers in resins

of or relating to fiber optics

the transmission of light signals via glass fibers

a flexible medical instrument involving fiber optics that is used to examine internal organs

a number in the Fibonacci sequence

a sequence of numbers in which each number equals the sum of the two preceding numbers

a slender and greatly elongated substance capable of being spun into yarn

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

the inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions

a leatherlike material made by compressing layers of paper or cloth

a bundle of fibers (especially nerve fibers)

a cable made of optical fibers that can transmit large amounts of information at the speed of light

the transmission of light signals via glass fibers

of or relating to fiber optics

a communication system using fiber optic cables

wallboard composed of wood chips or shavings bonded together with resin and compressed into rigid sheets

a covering material made of glass fibers in resins

of or relating to fiber optics

the transmission of light signals via glass fibers

a very slender natural or synthetic fiber

make fine, irregular, rapid twitching movements

muscular twitching involving individual muscle fibers acting without coordination

act or process of forming fibrils

covered with fibrils more or less evenly disposed

a white insoluble fibrous protein formed by the action of thrombin on fibrinogen when blood clots; it forms a network that traps red cells and platelets

in the clotting of blood thrombin catalyzes factor XIII into its active form (fibrinase) which causes fibrin to form a stable clot

a protein present in blood plasma; converts to fibrin when blood clots

an enzyme that dissolves the fibrin of blood clots

a normal ongoing process that dissolves fibrin and results in the removal of small blood clots

peptide released from the amino end of fibrinogen by the action of thrombin to form fibrin during clotting of the blood