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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
fibreglass
noun
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▪ By that time the cinema had closed down, sold to a firm making fibreglass covers for pneumatic drills.
▪ If he had had fibreglass Corinthian columns at his disposal, he would have used them.
▪ Like prefabricated pools these are moulded in plastic or fibreglass and are available in both natural and unnatural colours.
▪ Most of the torpedoes were built from fibreglass and cardboard tubing and weighted to fall properly when dropped.
▪ New fibreglass wing tips and dorsal fin additions were attached.
▪ The first is that drivers spend most of their working lives, with their heads encased in a fibreglass bucket.
▪ This time it's over twelve fibreglass figures which have been built in the windows of the Electric cinema in Birmingham.
▪ Water patterns bounce off polished chrome, the fibreglass shell is honed to a waxy sheen of pearl.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
fibreglass

fibreglass \fibreglass\ n. Same as fiberglass. [mostly British usage]

fibreglass

fiberglass \fiberglass\ n. a material made of fine glass fibers woven into a fabric-like form, and used in applications requiring heat resistance; it is also embedded in resins to make a pliable but strong composite material used as the main component of fishing rods and boat hulls, and replacing the sheet metal in some automobile bodies. [Also spelled fibreglass, mostly British in usage.]

Wiktionary
fibreglass

alt. 1 silica based glass extruded into fibers that possess a length at least 1000 times greater than their width. 2 a composite material made from fine fibres of spun glass held together with resin. (Also called Glass-Reinforced Plastic.) n. 1 silica based glass extruded into fibers that possess a length at least 1000 times greater than their width. 2 a composite material made from fine fibres of spun glass held together with resin. (Also called Glass-Reinforced Plastic.) vb. To apply fibreglass to.

WordNet
fibreglass

n. a covering material made of glass fibers in resins [syn: fiberglass]

Usage examples of "fibreglass".

Fishing the seething tide-race through the main channel at full spring tide, and shouting with excitement as the golden amberjack came boiling up in the wake, bellies flashing like mirrors, to hit the dancing feather lures, and send the Penn reels screeching a wild protest, and the fibreglass rods nodding and kicking.

Around the cold store were ten centimetres of fibreglass wool insulation.

Like an echo chamber, the shelter magnified every excited breath, every slap of the dark-green water on the fibreglass hull.

Art and chemistry had come to the rescue: The denuded earth had been preseved under an immense sheath of pinkish brown fibreglass - the kind of trompe l'oeil topography used on movie sets, complete with moulded furrows and simulated scrub.