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Cosa (chi) è WHISKER - definizione

TYPE OF MAMMALIAN HAIR USED FOR SENSING

Whisker (mammals); Vibrissae; Sinus hair; Whisker; Wiskers; Vibrissa; Whisking in animals

whisker

(whiskers)

1.

The whiskers of an animal such as a cat or a mouse are the long stiff hairs that grow near its mouth.

N-COUNT: usu pl

2.

You can refer to the hair on a man's face, especially on the sides of his face, as his whiskers.

...wild, savage-looking fellows, with large whiskers, unshaven beards, and dirty faces.

N-PLURAL

3.

You can use whisker in expressions such as by a whisker or within a whisker of to indicate that something happened or is true, but only by a very small amount or degree.

A new pet census showed that cats now outnumber dogs by a whisker (7 million to 6.9 million)...

She came within a whisker of taking a gold medal...

Unemployment is now a whisker away from three million.

N-SING

Whisker

·noun A hair of the beard.

II. Whisker ·noun One who, or that which, whisks, or moves with a quick, sweeping motion.

III. Whisker ·noun Formerly, the hair of the upper lip; a mustache;

- usually in the plural.

IV. Whisker ·noun Iron rods extending on either side of the bowsprit, to spread, or guy out, the stays, ·etc.

V. Whisker ·noun One of the long, projecting hairs growing at the sides of the mouth of a cat, or other animal.

VI. Whisker ·noun That part of the beard which grows upon the sides of the face, or upon the chin, or upon both; as, side whiskers; chin whiskers.

whisker

¦ noun

1. a long projecting hair or bristle growing from the face or snout of an animal such as a cat.

(whiskers) the hair growing on a man's face, especially on his cheeks.

2. (a whisker) informal a very small amount.

3. a single crystal of a material in the form of a filament with no dislocations.

Phrases

have (or have grown) whiskers informal (especially of a story) be very old.

Derivatives

whiskered adjective

whiskery adjective

Origin

ME (orig. denoting a bundle of feathers, twigs, etc., used for whisking): from whisk + -er¹.

Wikipedia

Whiskers

Vibrissae (; singular: vibrissa; ), more generally called whiskers, are a type of stiff, functional hair used by mammals to sense their environment. These hairs are finely specialised for this purpose, whereas other types of hair are coarser as tactile sensors. Although whiskers are specifically those found around the face, vibrissae are known to grow in clusters at various places around the body. Most mammals have them, including all non-human primates and especially nocturnal mammals.

Whiskers are sensitive tactile hairs that aid navigation, locomotion, exploration, hunting, social touch and perform other functions.

This article is primarily about the specialised sensing hairs of mammals, but some birds, fish, insects, crustaceans and other arthropods are known to have similar structures also used to sense the environment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiskers

Esempi dal corpus di testo per WHISKER

1. It was, nonetheless, Benítez whose scheming prevailed by a whisker.

2. Foundation degrees have been around for a whisker longer.

3. W is hovering a mere whisker above the 30% approval line.

4. She is just relieved that her children have escaped being fingerprinted by a whisker.

5. Jayawardene survives just three balls before edging one that moves a whisker to Jones.