A Topical Dictionary: Search for feeler

Dictionary Results For "feeler" [?]/[OPML]

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English

Pronunciation

Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-iːlə(r)|-iːlə(r)

Noun

An antenna or appendage used for feeling, esp. on an insect.
Someone or something that feels.

Related terms

put out feelers

Translations

German: {{t+|de|Fühler|m}}

German: {{t+|de|Fühler|m}}

: føler (1); følsom person (2)
: voeler (1); spriet (2)

: Capteur (1); Tripoteur (2); Antenne (3); Brin (4)

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Feeler \Feel"er\, n.
1. One who, or that which, feels.
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2. (Zool.) One of the sense organs or certain animals (as
insects), which are used in testing objects by touch and
in searching for food; an antenna; a palp.
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Insects . . . perpetually feeling and searching
before them with their feelers or antenn[ae].
--Derham.
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3. Anything, as a proposal, observation, etc., put forth or
thrown out in order to ascertain the views of others;
something tentative.
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WordNet feeler
n 1: one of a pair of mobile appendages on the head of e.g.
insects and crustaceans; typically sensitive to touch
and taste [syn: antenna]
2: a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of
others; "she rejected his advances" [syn: overture, advance,
approach]
3: sensitivity similar to that of a receptor organ; "he had a
special antenna for public relations" [syn: antenna]
4: slender tactile process on the jaws of a fish [syn: barbel]

Moby Dictionary
advance , antenna , approach , asking price , barb , barbel , barbule ,
barometer , bid , bone of contention , cat whisker , catechism ,
cross-interrogatory , cross-question , debating point , demand ,
foretaste , hint , inquiry , interrogation , interrogative ,
interrogatory , invitation , issue , kiteflying , leader , leading ,
leading question , moot point , offer , offering , overture , palp ,
palpus , pilot balloon , point at issue , point in question ,
preliminary approach , presentation , probe , problem , proffer , query ,
question , question at issue , question mark , quodlibet ,
random sample , sample , sensor , sound , sounder , straw vote ,
submission , suggestion , tactile cell , tactile corpuscle ,
tactile hair , tactile organ , tactile process , tactor ,
tentative approach , test , tester , topic , trial balloon ,
vexed question , vibrissa , weather vane , weathercock