Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun mostly British usage Same as
fiberglass .
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- noun silica based glass
extruded intofibers that possess a length at least 1000 times greater than their width. - noun a composite material made from
fine fibres ofspun glass held together withresin . (Also called Glass-Reinforced Plastic.)
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- noun a covering material made of glass fibers in resins
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Examples
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A mould is made of the clay figure and he casts it out in fibreglass resin and silicone.
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First, the roof is "painted" with a conventional roof coating, the fabric (looks like thin fibreglass sheeting) is laid on, and then another coat of the roof coating is applied.
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I intend to build a pool 10 'x 30' x 5 'on my flat roof top but i preder it to be in fibreglass.
roof top pool 2001
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I intend to build a pool 10 'x 30' x 5 'on my flat roof top but i preder it to be in fibreglass.
roof top pool 2001
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I intend to build a pool 10 'x 30' x 5 'on my flat roof top but i preder it to be in fibreglass.
roof top pool 2001
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The old ones had the stiff fibreglass tails and were on a spring above the clip.
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The whitest whiteness everywhere – white floors, white walls, white ceilings, white fibreglass sculptures that double up as white sofas.
Zaha Hadid: 'I'm happy to be on the outside' Simon Hattenstone 2010
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Helen Kontouris born Australia 1976 101 chair 2006 fibreglass, wool, felt
The 2009 Cicely & Colin Rigg Contemporary Design Awards 2009
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There were just some sad looking sea-turtles in completely empty fibreglass swimming pools not even a few bits of weed or a castle.
Secret voyages of leatherback turtles revealed using transmitters 2011
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Made entirely from fibreglass-reinforced polyester plastic, the white UFO house has proved very resilient, still standing 35 years after construction and following a battering from several hurricanes.
bilby commented on the word fibreglass
My father made two canoes out of fibreglass. The first took months. I was so excited about what we were going do with it. On its maiden voyage in the Goulbourn it tipped upside down - to this day there are stories about whose paddle was entangled in whose fishing line - and escaped down the river. The Goulbourn's rapids were unforgiving :-( Another fiberglass canoe was built to replace it. I suggested we call this one RockDodger and my father glared at me witheringly.
August 1, 2008