feather
Meaning of feather
- any of the flat appendages growing from a bird's skin and forming its plumage, consisting of a partly hollow horny shaft fringed with vanes of barbs.
the waxwing has very bright feathers and a prominent crest
Sally-Anne, dolled up in ostrich feathers and pearls
- rotate the blades of (a propeller) about their own axes in such a way as to lessen the air or water resistance.
- float or move like a feather.
the green fronds feathered against a blue sky
- blend or smooth delicately.
feather the paint in, in a series of light strokes
- (of ink, lipstick, etc.) separate into tiny lines after application.
the ink started to feather and smudge
don't you just hate it when you spot that your lipstick has feathered around your lips?
- short for feather cut.
Old English fether, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch veer and German Feder, from an Indo-European root shared by Sanskrit patra ‘wing’, Latin penna ‘feather’, and Greek pteron, pterux ‘wing’.
Information about feather
- The plural form of feather is: feathers.
- Languages in which feather is used:
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Hyphenation of feather
feather
- It consists of 1 syllables and 7 chars.
- feather is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
feather synonyms
Meaning plume:
Meaning feathering:
Meaning square:
Meaning fledge:
Meaning any of the main wing or tail feathers of a bird:
Meaning a period of unwelcome experiences or negative mood:
Meaning erectile hairs along an animal's back, which rise when it is angry or alarmed:
Meaning a comb or tuft of feathers, fur, or skin on the head of a bird or other animal:
Meaning a bunch or collection of threads, grass, hair, etc., held or growing together at the base:
Meaning a knot of hair arranged on the top of the head:
Meaning the outer part of a bird's wing including the flight feathers:
Meaning a thicket in which game can hide:
Meaning singular form of remiges:
Meaning the larger feathers in a bird's tail, used for steering in flight:
Meaning the rudimentary shoot or stem of an embryo plant:
Meaning long stiff hairs growing around the mouth or elsewhere on the face of many mammals, used as organs of touch; whiskers:
Meaning a piece of cloth or similar material, typically oblong or square, attachable by one edge to a pole or rope and used as the symbol or emblem of a country or institution or as a decoration during public:
Translation of feather
Anagrams of feather
Words that rhyme with feather
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