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whisker

გამოთქმა: /ˈwɪskə/

არსებითი სახელი

Universal
  • 1a long projecting hair or bristle growing from the face or snout of many mammals.
  • (whiskers) the hair growing on a man’s face, especially on his cheeks.
  • 2 (a whisker) informal a very small amount:they won the election by a whisker
  • 3a single crystal of a material in the form of a filament with no dislocations.

have (or have grown) whiskers

informal (especially of a story) be very old.

within a whisker of

informal extremely close or near to doing, achieving, or suffering something:Jarvis came within a whisker of winning the game

whiskered

adjective

whiskery

adjective

სინონიმები

  • bewhisker
  • fuzz
  • hair
  • haircloth
  • hairsbreadth
  • hair's-breadth
  • pilus
  • sensory hair
  • tomentum
  • vibrissa
  • whisker