whisker
whiskers, a beard.
Usually whiskers. side whiskers.
a single hair of the beard.
Archaic. a mustache.
one of the long, stiff, bristly hairs growing about the mouth of certain animals, as the cat or rat; vibrissa.
Also called whisker boom, whisker pole .Nautical. any spar for extending the clew or clews of a sail so that it can catch more wind.
Radio, Electronics. cat whisker.
Crystallography. a thin filament of a crystal, usually several millimeters long and one to two microns in diameter, having unusually great strength.
Idioms about whisker
by a whisker, by the narrowest margin: She won the race by a whisker.
Origin of whisker
1Other words from whisker
- whisk·er·y, adjective
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How to use whisker in a sentence
The best beard conditioner will soften the whiskers and make them easier to style and manage.
Best beard product for the best beard of your life | Florie Korani | August 18, 2021 | Popular-ScienceBy repeating this pattern, they dampened the whisker-neuron connection, making the cell less likely to respond to whisker movements.
How to Unlearn a Disease - Issue 103: Healthy Communication | Kelly Clancy | July 14, 2021 | NautilusThe resulting ice whiskers were a few micrometers in diameter or less, a fraction of the width of a typical human hair.
Such work could one day enable scientists to build artificial whiskers as tactile sensors in robotics as well as shed further light on human touch.
The secret to a rat’s sense of touch? It’s all in how the whiskers bend | Jennifer Ouellette | April 1, 2021 | Ars TechnicaNow an interdisciplinary team at Northwestern University has come up with a new model to help predict how a rat's whiskers activate different sensory cells to do just that, according to a new paper published in the journal PLOS Computational Biology.
The secret to a rat’s sense of touch? It’s all in how the whiskers bend | Jennifer Ouellette | April 1, 2021 | Ars Technica
Not anymore: A Rasmussen poll out last week now shows Pryor ahead by a whisker, and the race is now essentially a tie.
Some taxidermists actually remove and reinsert each whisker individually by hand to support their biological narrative.
Todd made a $2,000 donation to charity and kept the goatee by a whisker.
She went quickly through the drawing-room door into the house, leaving Jaffery still scratching a red whisker.
Jaffery | William J. LockeHe had neither whisker nor moustache, which allowed the soft curves of the lower part of his face to be apparent.
Return of the Native | Thomas HardyShe gathered the three remaining ones together, and fed them and licked them all over tenderly with soft whisker kisses.
Lives of the Fur Folk | M. D. HavilandThe fact, however, was that no whisker could be made to come sufficiently forward to be of service, and therefore he wore none.
Can You Forgive Her? | Anthony TrollopeThis officer's face was a whisker plantation, through which his eyes peeped forth like two snakes coiled up in a window-brush.
The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 1 | Robert H. Newell
British Dictionary definitions for whisker
/ (ˈwɪskə) /
any of the stiff sensory hairs growing on the face of a cat, rat, or other mammal: Technical name: vibrissa
any of the hairs growing on a person's face, esp on the cheeks or chin
(plural) a beard or that part of it growing on the sides of the face
(plural) informal a moustache
Also called: whisker boom, whisker pole any light spar used for extending the clews of a sail, esp in light airs
chem a very fine filamentary crystal having greater strength than the bulk material since it is a single crystal. Such crystals often show unusual electrical properties
a person or thing that whisks
a narrow margin; a small distance: he escaped death by a whisker
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Other Idioms and Phrases with whisker
see by a hair (whisker); win by a nose (whisker).
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