Feather

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds, used for flight, swimming, protection and display.

   “Notice, too, that the shaft is not straight, but bent so that the upper surface of the feather is convex, and the lower concave.”

2. isim Long hair on the lower legs of a dog or horse, especially a draft horse, notably the Clydesdale breed. Narrowly only the rear hair.
3. isim One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow.
4. isim A longitudinal strip projecting from an object to strengthen it, or to enter a channel in another object and thereby prevent displacement sideways or rotationally but permit motion lengthwise.

   “Near-synonym: spline”

5. isim Kind; nature; species (from the proverbial phrase "birds of a feather").

   “I am not of that feather to shake off / My friend when he must need me.”

6. isim One of the two shims of the three-piece stone-splitting tool known as plug and feather or plug and feathers; the feathers are placed in a borehole and then a wedge is driven between them, causing the stone to split.
7. isim The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water.
8. isim Anything petty or trifling; a whit or jot.

   “To some pew purchasers he gave deeds, to others he gave, none, but both were promised security, and both it seems were equally secure, for the pew deed as Mr. Melledge declared to Mr. G. was not worth a feather.”

9. isim Partridges and pheasants, as opposed to rabbits and hares (called fur).
10. isim A junction indicator attached to a colour-light signal at an angle, which lights up, typically with four white lights in a row, when a diverging route is set up.

    “Signal M123 is a conventional 3-aspect colour light with three Junction Indicators - commonly known as 'feathers'.”

11. isim A faint edge.
12. fiil To cover or furnish with feathers; (when of an arrow) to fletch.

    “An Eagle had the ill Hap to be Struck with an Arrow Feather'd from her own Wing.”

13. fiil To adorn, as if with feathers; to fringe.

    “A few birches and oaks still feathered the narrow ravines, or occupied in dwarf clusters the hollow plains of the moor.”

14. fiil To arrange in the manner or appearance of feathers.

    “The stylist feathered my hair.”

15. fiil To rotate the oars while they are out of the water to reduce wind resistance.
16. fiil To streamline the blades of an aircraft's propeller by rotating them perpendicular to the axis of the propeller when the engine is shut down so that the propeller does not windmill during flight.

    “After striking the bird, the pilot feathered the damaged left engine’s propeller.”

17. fiil To finely shave or bevel an edge.
18. fiil To intergrade or blend the pixels of an image with those of a background or neighboring image.
19. fiil Of written or printed ink: to take on a blurry appearance as a result of spreading through the receiving medium.

    “Whether or not the ink feathers depends upon the paper or card, and also upon the nature of the dye in the ink.”

20. fiil To render light as a feather; to give wings to.

    “c. 1650, Robert Loveday, letter to Mr. C. The Polonian story, which perhaps may feather some tedious hours.”

21. fiil To enrich; to exalt; to benefit.

    “They stuck not to say that the king cared not to plume his nobility and people to feather himself.”

22. fiil To tread, as a cockerel.

    “Ardent in love[…]He feather'd her a hundred times a day.”

23. fiil To move the cue back and forth along the bridge in preparation for striking the cue ball.
24. fiil To accidentally touch the cue ball with the tip of the cue when taking aim.
25. fiil To touch lightly, like (or as if with) a feather.

    “His breath feathered her lips; her spine, her legs weakened, went soft at the wafting warmth.”

26. fiil To move softly, like a feather.

    “She feathered her fingers through Mitchell's hair. “Besides, I like you a whole lot better than Frye.””

27. özel isim An English surname originating as an occupation.
28. özel isim An anglicized Americanized German surname from German, equivalent to English Feather.