feelers 的定义
- a person or thing that feels.
- a proposal, remark, hint, etc., designed to bring out the opinions or purposes of others: Interested in an accord, both labor and management were putting out feelers.
- Zoology. an organ of touch, as an antenna or a tentacle.
- Also called feeler gauge .Engineering. a gauge having several blades of known thickness, used for measuring clearances.
- Nautical. a device for indicating that the lead of a mechanical sounding device has come to the bottom.
feelers 近义词
anything that investigates by touch
an effort to discover opinion
更多feelers例句
- Privately, Banks put out feelers about running for the job himself.
- As In the Heights was declared the toast of Broadway, Hollywood started putting out feelers.
- Washington, a 6-foot-3, 185-pounder who averaged 24 points, seven assists and six rebounds for the 30-2 Compass Prep team, has gotten feelers from other schools, his father told the Athletic.
- So for the past few years, Gordon has put out feelers to institutions to take over Lynne’s life’s work.
- All those cells allow these flexible feelers to operate almost on their own.
- He threw out this last suggestion as a kind of feeler; and then suddenly made the plunge.
- A mild electrical shock coursed through his body, as if an invisible feeler had passed over him.
- The feeler had all but touched Quade, and with the closeness of his escape, the remnants of his courage gave.
- It's feeler rays, Dr. Lee; the first wave, low penetration surface rays.
- The huge disk with the feeler-ray antennae sank down close to his chest, heavy as the keystone upon a tomb.