Feather

['feðə] or ['fɛðɚ]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) turning an oar parallel to the water between pulls.

(noun.) the light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds.

(verb.) turn the oar, while rowing.

(verb.) turn the paddle; in canoeing.

(verb.) cover or fit with feathers.

(verb.) join tongue and groove, in carpentry.

比利校對--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) One of the peculiar dermal appendages, of several kinds, belonging to birds, as contour feathers, quills, and down.

(n.) Kind; nature; species; -- from the proverbial phrase, "Birds of a feather," that is, of the same species.

(n.) The fringe of long hair on the legs of the setter and some other dogs.

(n.) A tuft of peculiar, long, frizzly hair on a horse.

(n.) One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow.

(n.) A longitudinal strip projecting as a fin from an object, to strengthen it, or to enter a channel in another object and thereby prevent displacement sidwise but permit motion lengthwise; a spline.

(n.) A thin wedge driven between the two semicylindrical parts of a divided plug in a hole bored in a stone, to rend the stone.

(n.) The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water.

(v. t.) To furnish with a feather or feathers, as an arrow or a cap.

(v. t.) To adorn, as with feathers; to fringe.

(v. t.) To render light as a feather; to give wings to.

(v. t.) To enrich; to exalt; to benefit.

(v. t.) To tread, as a cock.

(v. i.) To grow or form feathers; to become feathered; -- often with out; as, the birds are feathering out.

(v. i.) To curdle when poured into another liquid, and float about in little flakes or "feathers;" as, the cream feathers

(v. i.) To turn to a horizontal plane; -- said of oars.

(v. i.) To have the appearance of a feather or of feathers; to be or to appear in feathery form.

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同義詞及近義詞：

n. [1]. Plume.[2]. Kind, nature, species.

海丝特編輯

解釋/意思:

n. one of the growths which form the covering of a bird: a feather-like ornament: the feathered end of an arrow: nature kind as in 'birds of a feather:' birds collectively: anything light or trifling.—v.t. to furnish or adorn with feathers.—ns. Feath′er-bed a mattress filled with feathers; Feath′er-board′ing (same as Weather-boarding q.v.).—p.adj. Feath′ered covered or fitted with feathers or anything feather-like: like the flight of a feathered animal swift: smoothed as with feathers.—ns. Feath′er-edge an edge of a board or plank thinner than the other edge; Feath′er-grass a perennial grass so called from the feathery appearance of its awns; Feath′er-head Feath′er-brain a frivolous person; Feath′eriness; Feath′ering plumage: the fitting of feathers to arrows: (archit.) an arrangement of small arcs or foils separated by projecting cusps frequently forming the feather-like ornament on the inner mouldings of arches; Feath′er-star a crinoid of feathery appearance and radiate structure; Feath′er-weight the lightest weight that may be carried by a racing-horse: a boxer wrestler &c. of a class below the light-weights—hence one of small importance or ability.—adj. Feath′ery pertaining to resembling or covered with feathers.—Feather an oar to turn the blade of the oar horizontally as it comes out of the water thus lessening the resistance of the air; Feather one's nest to accumulate wealth for one's self while serving others in a position of trust.—A feather in one's cap some striking mark of distinction; Be in high feather to be greatly elated or in high spirits; Make the feathers fly to throw into confusion by a sudden attack; Show the white feather to show signs of cowardice—a white feather in a gamecock's tail being considered as a sign of degeneracy.

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