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whiskers

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

胡须,胡子,髯须,触须

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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.

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Examples

  • In fact, traditional Chinese medicine outlines the uses for each component of a tiger, down to its nose leather and whiskers.

  • Then he pointed to my sunken cheeks where a couple gray whiskers poked through.

  • Prince Harry has been ordered to shave off his ginger whiskers by no higher authority than the Queen herself.

  • After a few years of stubble, the lumberjack whiskers returned, now dyed black.

  • There was Coco the other day, on Page Six, his familiar red coiffure now underlined by some bright, red whiskers.

  • Sol laughed out of his whiskers, with a big, loose-rolling sound, and sat on the porch without waiting to be asked.

  • Under the internal pressure his whiskers stood on end and his face grew red.

  • One is of my own poor sex, a man, a thing of whiskers; the other has the honour to belong to that sex which—have I said it?

  • The black wig and whiskers lay near him; but the real hair, light and scanty, was pushed back from the damp brow.

  • There the man has lived—if you can call such an existence living; Willy Gum, concealed by his borrowed black hair and whiskers.