WISP

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A small bundle, as of straw or other like substance; a twisted handful of something; any slender, flexible structure or group.

   “A wisp of hair escaped her barrette and whipped wildly in the wind.”

2. isim A small, thin line of cloud, smoke, or steam.

   “A wisp of smoke rose from the candle for a few moments after he blew it out.”

3. isim A whisk, or small broom.
4. isim A will o' the wisp, or ignis fatuus.

   “the wisp that flickers where no foot can tread”

5. isim An immeasurable, indefinable essence of life; soul.

   ““She would get nothing from him, she saw, resentfully. Then some angel of grace lent her a few wisps, which she grasped.”

6. isim A flock of snipe.

   “They shift their quarters in the early part of the season very suddenly, and if a man hears of a wisp of snipe in any particular place, he must be off at once.”

7. isim A disease affecting the feet of cattle.
8. fiil To brush or dress, as with a wisp.

   “The very same head of hair, wisp'd, and matted together, would make the most disagreeable figure.”

9. fiil To rumple.
10. fiil To produce a wisp, as of smoke.
11. fiil To emit in wisps.

    “It looked warm and rosy-bright inside, with a little chimney wisping smoke, little windows glowing.”

12. isim Acronym of wireless internet service provider.