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by a whisker

/hwis-ker, wis-/US // ˈʰwɪs kər, ˈwɪs- //UK // (ˈwɪskə) //

差之毫厘谬以千里,不及格

Related Words

hair头发,汗毛,头发的,头发的问题filament花丝,花粉,花药,花丝状bristle鬃毛,硬毛,鬃毛的作用,鬃毛的breadth广泛性,宽度,宽度,宽广度trace痕迹,追踪,跟踪,踪迹whiff嗅觉,嗅嗅,嗅探,嗅到whisper嘀咕,嘀咕一声,呫嗫,哼哼唧唧fraction分数,分词,分,分额touch触摸,接触,碰,联系tinge微染,轻染hairsbreadth头发的宽度,头发丝,头发的界限,头发的长度hairbreadth咫尺天涯,咫尺之遥,咫尺之间,咫尺

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : whiskers, a beard.
    • : Usually whiskers. side whiskers.
    • : a single hair of the beard.
    • : Archaic. a mustache.
    • : one of the long, stiff, bristly hairs growing about the mouth of certain animals, as the cat or rat; vibrissa.
    • : Also called whisker boom, whisker pole .Nautical. any spar for extending the clew or clews of a sail so that it can catch more wind.
    • : Radio, Electronics. cat whisker.
    • : Crystallography. a thin filament of a crystal, usually several millimeters long and one to two microns in diameter, having unusually great strength.

Synonyms & Antonyms

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Synonyms
barely勉强,勉强的,几乎没有,勉强算是carefully仔细,认真,谨慎,认真地almost几乎,几乎是,差不多,几乎要by a hair差之毫厘,一丝不苟,差之毫厘谬以千里by narrow margin以微弱的优势,以微弱的优势胜出,险胜close关闭,密切,结束,靠近nearly差不多,几乎,近乎,几乎是only just仅仅是,只不过,只不过是,只是painstakingly苦心孤诣地,苦心孤诣,苦心经营,精心scarcely几乎没有,几乎不,几乎不可能,稀少的scrutinizingly仔细检查,仔细审查,仔细地检查,仔细地

Examples

  • The best beard conditioner will soften the whiskers and make them easier to style and manage.

  • By repeating this pattern, they dampened the whisker-neuron connection, making the cell less likely to respond to whisker movements.

  • The resulting ice whiskers were a few micrometers in diameter or less, a fraction of the width of a typical human hair.

  • Now an interdisciplinary team at Northwestern University has come up with a new model to help predict how a rat's whiskers activate different sensory cells to do just that, according to a new paper published in the journal PLOS Computational Biology.

  • Such work could one day enable scientists to build artificial whiskers as tactile sensors in robotics as well as shed further light on human touch.

  • Not anymore: A Rasmussen poll out last week now shows Pryor ahead by a whisker, and the race is now essentially a tie.

  • Some taxidermists actually remove and reinsert each whisker individually by hand to support their biological narrative.

  • Todd made a $2,000 donation to charity and kept the goatee by a whisker.

  • She went quickly through the drawing-room door into the house, leaving Jaffery still scratching a red whisker.

  • He had neither whisker nor moustache, which allowed the soft curves of the lower part of his face to be apparent.

  • She gathered the three remaining ones together, and fed them and licked them all over tenderly with soft whisker kisses.

  • The fact, however, was that no whisker could be made to come sufficiently forward to be of service, and therefore he wore none.

  • This officer's face was a whisker plantation, through which his eyes peeped forth like two snakes coiled up in a window-brush.

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