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UK
/fˈɪb/
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[ US /ˈfɪb/ ]
[ US /ˈfɪb/ ]
NOUN
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a trivial lie
he told a fib about eating his spinach
how can I stop my child from telling stories?
VERB
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tell a relatively insignificant lie
Fibbing is not acceptable, even if you don't call it lying
How To Use fib In A Sentence
- The dyes are in the form of a suspension of particles which, for reasons not fully understood, are adsorbed onto the surface of ligno-cellulosic fibres such as sisal, abaca and fique. Chapter 8
- Owing to different structures of cotton fiber and chitin fiber, they have differentadsorbability to reactive dyestuffs.
- The tailorbird splices the short fibres together to make longer pieces.
- Trailing edge vibration has been dampened by reinforcement with thin glass fibre rod inserts or mylar overlays, so eliminating excessive noise.
- To make matters worse, thick, fibrous adhesions are often formed anchoring the congested, fatty tissue to the muscular layer below.
- Tim Russert may very well be alive right now if office staff had defibrillated him on-the-spot! Remembering Tim Russert | EW.com
- The best philosophy is to change your food habits to a low-sugar, high-fibre diet.
- Its addition in minute amounts to the nucleoprotein tumor fraction, was expected to suppress the formation of the fibrillar halo if nucleic acids rather that the protein were responsible for the nerve growth promoting effect elicited by this fraction. Nobel Lecture The Nerve Growth Factor: Thirty-Five Years Later
- He was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis when he was about 18 months old. The Sun
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