whiskers (redirected from Metal whiskers)

whisk·er  (hwskr, ws-)

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 shear strength and unusual electrical or surface properties.

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

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whiskered, whisker·y adj.

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whiskers - Originally the word for a bundle of feathers, twigs, etc. used for whisking (from "whisk"), it then came to denote the projecting hairs or bristles of mammals.

See also related terms for twigs.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

whiskers - the hair growing on the lower part of a man's face beard, face fungus adult male body, man's body - the body of an adult man facial hair - hair on the face (especially on the face of a man) fuzz - the first beard of an adolescent boy imperial, imperial beard - a small tufted beard worn by Emperor Napoleon III beaver - a full beard moustache, mustache - an unshaved growth of hair on the upper lip; "he looked younger after he shaved off his mustache" goatee - a small chin beard trimmed to a point; named for its resemblance to a goat's beard stubble - short stiff hairs growing on a man's face when he has not shaved for a few days vandyke beard, vandyke - a short pointed beard (named after the artist Anthony Vandyke) Attilio, soul patch - a small patch of facial hair just below the lower lip and above the chin face, human face - the front of the human head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear; "he washed his face"; "I wish I had seen the look on his face when he got the news"

Translations

whiskers [ˈwɪskəz] npl (also side whiskers) → basette fpl; (beard) → barba; (moustache, of animal) → baffi mpl

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whiskers → شَوَارِب vousy knurhår Barthaare μουστάκια γάτας bigotes kissan viikset moustaches brkovi baffi ひげ 수염 bakkebaarden værhår bokobrody bigode de animal усы morrhår เคราแข็งสองข้างปาก bıyık râu mèo 腮须