英语词汇“whisker”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

whisk·er

(wĭskər, hwĭs-)

a. whiskers The hair on a man's cheeks and chin.

b. A single hair of a beard or mustache.

2. One of the long stiff tactile bristles or hairs that grow near the mouth and elsewhere on the head of most mammals; a vibrissa.

3. Informal A narrow margin; a hairsbreadth: The candidate lost the election by a whisker.

4. Nautical One of two spars or booms projecting from the side of a bowsprit for spreading the jib or flying-jib guys.

5. Chemistry An extremely fine filamentary crystal with extraordinary tensile strength and unusual electrical or surface properties.

[Middle English wisker, anything that whisks, from wisken, to whisk; see WHISK.]

whiskered, whisker·y adj.

单词	whisker
释义	whisk·er (wĭskər, hwĭs-) n. 1. a. whiskers The hair on a man's cheeks and chin. b. A single hair of a beard or mustache. 2. One of the long stiff tactile bristles or hairs that grow near the mouth and elsewhere on the head of most mammals; a vibrissa. 3. Informal A narrow margin; a hairsbreadth: The candidate lost the election by a whisker. 4. Nautical One of two spars or booms projecting from the side of a bowsprit for spreading the jib or flying-jib guys. 5. Chemistry An extremely fine filamentary crystal with extraordinary tensile strength and unusual electrical or surface properties. [Middle English wisker, anything that whisks, from wisken, to whisk; see WHISK.] whiskered, whisker·y adj.
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