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Synonyms for feather
ˈfɛð ərfeath·er
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Wiktionary
feathernoun
To rotate the oars while they are out of the water to reduce wind resistance.
Synonyms:
feathers, feathering, horsefeathersAntonyms:
spats
Princeton's WordNet
feather, plume, plumagenoun
the light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds
Synonyms:
feathering, plumage, plumefeather, featheringverb
turning an oar parallel to the water between pulls
Synonyms:
feathering, plumage, plumefeatherverb
join tongue and groove, in carpentry
featherverb
cover or fit with feathers
feather, squareverb
turn the paddle; in canoeing
feather, squareverb
turn the oar, while rowing
fledge, featherverb
grow feathers
"The young sparrows are fledging already"
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#1834 | square | |
#2061 | flight | |
#4269 | pen | |
#12983 | feather | |
#16144 | feathers | |
#16990 | badminton | |
#22890 | plume | |
#30133 | quill | |
#53046 | plumage | |
#95053 | feathering | |
#125946 | horsefeathers | |
#169466 | fledge |
How to use feather in a sentence?
Taking a step back, this is a major feather in the cap for the Elon Musk bull.
Hummingbirds have bright, iridescent feathers, but if you took a hummingbird feather and smashed it into tiny pieces, you’d only see black dust. The pigment in the feathers is black, but the shapes of the melanosomes that produce that pigment are what make the colors in hummingbird feathers that we see.
This a remarkable find providing unprecedented detail for a previously poorly understood phase of feather evolution.
Field Museum senior research scientist:
There’s more than one way to make magenta with iridescence, the parent species each have their own way of making magenta, which is, I think, why you can have this nonlinear or surprising outcome when you mix together those two recipes for producing a feather color.
As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.
Translations for feather
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- veer, pluimAfrikaans
- ريش, ريشةArabic
- хӏулиAvaric
- tük, lələkAzerbaijani
- пяро́Belarusian
- перо̀, оперявамBulgarian
- plomaCatalan, Valencian
- péroCzech
- plu, plufWelsh
- fjerDanish
- Vogelfeder, befiedern, FederGerman
- πούπουλο, φτερόGreek
- plumoEsperanto
- plumaSpanish
- sulgEstonian
- lumaBasque
- پرPersian
- vuohiskarva, sulka, tyyppi, lehti, höyhenFinnish
- fjøðurFaroese
- plumeFrench
- pinne, plom, fearWestern Frisian
- cleiteIrish
- iteScottish Gaelic
- agueGuaraní
- પીછુંGujarati
- נוצהHebrew
- पर, पंखHindi
- tollHungarian
- փետուրArmenian
- pluma, pennaInterlingua
- buluIndonesian
- plumoIdo
- fjöðurIcelandic
- penna, piumaItalian
- נוֹצָהHebrew
- 羽Japanese
- wuluJavanese
- ბუმბულიGeorgian
- қауырсынKazakh
- ស្លាបKhmer
- ಗರಿKannada
- 유, 깃, 종류, 깃털Korean
- pûrt, پهڕ, perrKurdish
- plūma, pennaLatin
- Fieder, PlommLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- ຂົນ, ບິກLao
- plunksnaLithuanian
- spalvaLatvian
- пероMacedonian
- өд, өрөвлөгMongolian
- bulu pelepahMalay
- အတောင်Burmese
- pluim, veer, vederDutch
- fjørNorwegian Nynorsk
- fjærNorwegian
- atʼaʼNavajo, Navaho
- ਖੰਭPanjabi, Punjabi
- pióroPolish
- pluma, penaPortuguese
- pană, fulgRomanian
- перо́Russian
- pinna, pinniaSardinian
- перо, peroSerbo-Croatian
- pierko, peroSlovak
- peroSlovene
- pendë, pupëlAlbanian
- fjäderSwedish
- nyoyaSwahili
- சிறகுTamil
- ఈకTelugu
- парTajik
- ขน, ขนนกThai
- ýelekTurkmen
- balahiboTagalog
- tüyTurkish
- перо́Ukrainian
- پنکھ, پرUrdu
- lông chim, lông vũ, lôngVietnamese
- plüm, bödaplümem, pen, bödapen, bödaplüm, plümemVolapük
- peneWalloon
- פעדערYiddish
- 羽毛Chinese
- uphapheZulu
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