feather

feather

englanti

  1. höyhen

Liittyvät sanat: pluck

Synonyymisanakirja

feather

  1. pyöriminen, pyörivä liike, pyörimisliike, airon kääntäminen lappeelleen, kääntää lappeelleen, peittää höyhenillä, peittää, soutaa, meloa.

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Käännökset

englanti

airon kääntäminen lappeelleen

kääntää lappeelleen

pontata

peittää höyhenillä A branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds, used for flight, swimming, protection and display.
1873, W. K. Brooks, "A Feather", Popular Science Monthly, volume IV, page 687

Notice, too, that the shaft is not straight, but bent so that the upper surface of the feather is convex, and the lower concave.
1914, w:Edgar Rice Burroughs|Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Beasts of Tarzan, chapter V
Big fellows they were, all of them, their barbaric headdresses and grotesquely painted faces, together with their many metal ornaments and gorgeously coloured feathers, adding to their wild, fierce appearance.
2000, C. J. Puotinen, The Encyclopedia of Natural Pet Care, page 362:
Nesting birds pluck some of their own feathers to line the nest, but feather plucking in pet birds is entirely different.
Long hair on the lower legs of a dog or horse, especially a draft horse, notably the Clydesdale breed. Narrowly only the rear hair.
One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow.
A longitudinal strip projecting from an object to strengthen it, or to enter a channel in another object and thereby prevent displacement sideways but permit motion lengthwise; a spline.
Kind; nature; species (from the proverbial phrase "birds of a feather").
Shakespeare
I am not of that feather to shake off / My friend when he must need me.
One of the two shim shims of the three-piece stone-splitting tool known as (w) or plug and feathers; the feathers are placed in a borehole and then a wedge is driven between them, causing the stone to split.

(rfquotek)

The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water.
To cover or furnish with feathers.
L'Estrange
An eagle had the ill hap to be struck with an arrow feathered from her own wing.
To arrange in the manner or appearance of feathers.

The stylist feathered my hair.

puhekieltä To rotate the oars while they are out of the water to reduce wind resistance.
puhekieltä 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 doesn't windmill as the aircraft flies.

After striking the bird, the pilot feathered the left, damaged engine's propeller.

puhekieltä To finely shave or bevel an edge.
puhekieltä To intergrade or blend the pixels of an image with those of a background or neighboring image.
To adorn, as with feathers; to fringe.
Sir Walter Scott
A few birches and oaks still feathered the narrow ravines.
To render light as a feather; to give wings to.
Loveday
The Polonian story perhaps may feather some tedious hours.
To enrich; to exalt; to benefit.
Francis Bacon
They stuck not to say that the king cared not to plume his nobility and people to feather himself.
To tread, as a cock.

Sitaatit

  • "Näytän levy-yhtiölle persettä, jos joudun vielä kerrankin vääntämään biiseistä. En suostu kuuntelemaan enää yhtäkään Maki Kolehmaisen tekemää demoa. Yksi riitti: Slipping with the Leather, sleeping with the feather. Eurodance-komppi jytäsi taustalla ja kitara hädin tuskin kuului. (Koivunen kertoo Suosikissa olevansa tyytymätön levy-yhtiönsä Sony BMG:n ohjailuun)"

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