feather

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈfɛð.ə/|[ˈfɛð.ə]    美 /ˈfɛð.ɚ/|[ˈfɛð.ɚ] ~ [ˈfɛð.ɹ̩]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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. 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. One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow.
  4. 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. 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. 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. The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water.
  8. 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. Partridges and pheasants, as opposed to rabbits and hares (called fur). in-plural
  10. 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. A faint edge.
动词 v.
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. To arrange in the manner or appearance of feathers.
    — The stylist feathered my hair.
  4. To rotate the oars while they are out of the water to reduce wind resistance. ambitransitive
  5. 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.
  6. To finely shave or bevel an edge.
  7. To intergrade or blend the pixels of an image with those of a background or neighboring image.
  8. Of written or printed ink: to take on a blurry appearance as a result of spreading through the receiving medium. intransitive
    — Whether or not the ink feathers depends upon the paper or card, and also upon the nature of the dye in the ink.
  9. To render light as a feather; to give wings to. transitive
    — c. 1650, Robert Loveday, letter to Mr. C. The Polonian story, which perhaps may feather some tedious hours.
  10. To enrich; to exalt; to benefit. transitive
    — They stuck not to say that the king cared not to plume his nobility and people to feather himself.
  11. To tread, as a cockerel. transitive
    — Ardent in love[…]He feather'd her a hundred times a day.
  12. To move the cue back and forth along the bridge in preparation for striking the cue ball.
  13. To accidentally touch the cue ball with the tip of the cue when taking aim.
  14. To touch lightly, like (or as if with) a feather. transitive
    — His breath feathered her lips; her spine, her legs weakened, went soft at the wafting warmth.
  15. To move softly, like a feather. transitive
    — She feathered her fingers through Mitchell's hair. “Besides, I like you a whole lot better than Frye.”

词形变化

feathers plural fether alternative,archaic feathers present,singular,third-person feathering participle,present feathered participle,past feathered past fether alternative,archaic

词汇关系

近义词
plume pluma
衍生词
afterfeather beak and feather disease beam feather befeather birds of a feather blood feather cock feather cock-feather contour feather cut a feather defeather dot or feather down feather featherable feather alum featherback featherbedding feather bed featherbed feather-bed feather boa featherbone feather-brained featherbrained featherbrain feather-brain feather Christmas tree feathercoat featherdom featherdown feather-dust feather duster feather duster worm feather edge feather edger featherer featherfoil featherfoot feather grass feather-grass feathergrass featherhead feather-headed feather-heeled featherily featheriness feathering float feathering screw feathering strip feathering wheel feather in one's cap feather in one's hat featherleaf feather-legged bug featherless featherlet featherlight feather-light featherlike featherly feathermaker feather merchant feathermonger feathermoss feathern feather ore feather oyster feather palm featherpate featherpated feather pen feather shot feathersome feather spray feather star feather stick featherstitch feathertail feather-tailed glider feather-tailed possum feather tree feather-veined featherweed featherweight featherwise featherwood feather wool featherwork feathery fine feathers make fine birds flight feather gayfeather horsefeathers ice feather Indian feather moss in fine feather in full feather in high feather knock one over with a feather knock someone down with a feather knock someone over with a feather light as a feather make the feathers fly Mexican feather grass midfeather of a feather parrotfeather parrot's-feather pennaceous feather pin feather pinfeather plug and feather powder-down feather prince's feather princess-feather protofeather quill feather rosy feather star ruffle a few feathers ruffle some feathers saddle feather sea feather secondary feather show the white feather spit feathers swine's feather tailfeather tar-and-feather the feathers fly unfeather watch the feathers fly feathered feather one's nest feather one's own nest tar and feather
相关词
fletchings

词源

词源 1
From Middle English feþer, from Old English feþer, from Proto-West Germanic *feþru, from Proto-Germanic *feþrō, from Proto-Indo-European *péth₂r̥ (“feather, wing”), from *peth₂- (“to fly”).
Cognate with West Frisian fear (“feather”), Cimbrian bèdara, fòdara (“pillowcase”), vèdara (“feather”), Dutch veder, veer (“feather”), German Feder (“feather”), German Low German Fedder (“feather”), Luxembourgish Fieder (“feather”), Vilamovian faoder (“feather”), Yiddish פֿעדער (feder, “feather”), Danish fjeder, fjer (“feather”), Faroese fjøður (“feather”), Icelandic fjöður (“feather”), Norwegian Bokmål fjær, fjør (“feather”), Norwegian Nynorsk fjøder, fjør (“feather”), Swedish fjäder (“feather”). Also Ancient Greek πέτομαι (pétomai, “to fly”), Albanian shpend (“bird”), Latin penna (“feather”), Old Armenian թիռ (tʻiṙ, “flight”).
The sense correlated with splines and keys (noun sense 4) probably reflects analogy with the fletching sense (noun sense 3).
词源 2
From Middle English feþer, from Old English feþer, from Proto-West Germanic *feþru, from Proto-Germanic *feþrō, from Proto-Indo-European *péth₂r̥ (“feather, wing”), from *peth₂- (“to fly”).
Cognate with West Frisian fear (“feather”), Cimbrian bèdara, fòdara (“pillowcase”), vèdara (“feather”), Dutch veder, veer (“feather”), German Feder (“feather”), German Low German Fedder (“feather”), Luxembourgish Fieder (“feather”), Vilamovian faoder (“feather”), Yiddish פֿעדער (feder, “feather”), Danish fjeder, fjer (“feather”), Faroese fjøður (“feather”), Icelandic fjöður (“feather”), Norwegian Bokmål fjær, fjør (“feather”), Norwegian Nynorsk fjøder, fjør (“feather”), Swedish fjäder (“feather”). Also Ancient Greek πέτομαι (pétomai, “to fly”), Albanian shpend (“bird”), Latin penna (“feather”), Old Armenian թիռ (tʻiṙ, “flight”).
The sense correlated with splines and keys (noun sense 4) probably reflects analogy with the fletching sense (noun sense 3).
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