Crossword clues for feeler
feeler
- Bug's antenna
- Trial balloon
- It's a test
- Typically sensitive to touch and taste
- A tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others
- Sensitivity similar to that of a receptor organ
- Slender tactile process on the jaws of a fish
- One of a pair of mobile appendages on the head of e.g. insects and crustaceans
- Antenna
- Tentacle
- Ant's antenna
- Palp
- Tentative proposal
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Feeler \Feel"er\, n.
One who, or that which, feels.
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(Zo["o]l.) One of the sense organs or certain animals (as insects), which are used in testing objects by touch and in searching for food; an antenna; a palp.
Insects . . . perpetually feeling and searching before them with their feelers or antenn[ae].
--Derham. Anything, as a proposal, observation, etc., put forth or thrown out in order to ascertain the views of others; something tentative.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "one who feels," agent noun from feel (v.). Of animal organs, 1660s. Transferred sense of "proposal put forth to observe the reaction it gets" is from 1830. Related: Feelers.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context literally English) Someone or something that feels. 2 (context anatomy English) An antenna or appendage used for feeling, especially on an insect. 3 (context figuratively English) Something ventured to test (an)other(s)' feelings, opinion, position.
WordNet
n. one of a pair of mobile appendages on the head of e.g. insects and crustaceans; typically sensitive to touch and taste [syn: antenna]
a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others; "she rejected his advances" [syn: overture, advance, approach]
sensitivity similar to that of a receptor organ; "he had a special antenna for public relations" [syn: antenna]
slender tactile process on the jaws of a fish [syn: barbel]
Wikipedia
Feeler is the second album by Australian singer-songwriter Pete Murray. Released on 21 July 2003, it went to number one on the Australian album charts on 29 March 2004 and to that date, achieved 6 x platinum status.
Feeler was supposed to have been the Toadies's follow-up album to the critically acclaimed debut Rubberneck; however, its release was denied by Interscope Records. In June 2010 the band announced that they had re-entered the studio to "rediscover" and re-record the album. This nine-song version was released on August 10, 2010.
Feeler may refer to:
- Antenna (biology)
- Feeler (Pete Murray album), 2003
- Feeler (Marcella Detroit album), 1996
- Feeler (Toadies album), 2010
- Feeler fish
- Feeler gauge
- The Feelers - New Zealand rock band
Feeler is the third studio album by British-based American musician Marcella Detroit. It was first released in September 1996 by AAA Records in the UK, ironically, the lead single " I Hate You Now..." was released in the same month as " I Can Drive", the lead single from Detroit's former band Shakespears Sister's third album #3.
Usage examples of "feeler".
French, with his cavalry, pushed out feelers, and coasted along the edge of the advancing host.
With that the lobster brushed by them and hustled off the way they had come, feelers atwitch with anticipation.
At the base of the feelers the biologist noticed huge bladders that glowed inside and seemed to be transmitting the star-like flashes along them.
Ironically, her title was psychometrist, even though it was far removed from her ability as a feeler.
With dish antennae they watched the road, and with magnetic feelers they felt at the guiding strips of steel in the roadbed and were given guidance thereby, as they rushed along the pink, fluorescent river of oiled concrete.
A tiny ball of earth is held between the fangs and is supported by the palpi, or feelers, which are little arms employed in the service of the mouth-parts.
When Pedro squinted at the two American girls as they walked from their taxi into the hotel, his Stygian eyes blinked more rapidly than usual down the slopes of his nose, and his pilous antennae vibrated like the feelers of a roach sensing feasts beneath the kitchen sink.
Gusts of warm well-being spread through Quath as feelers stole into her mind, sensing all.
From the screenless window a fly came looping in, made tentative passes at the inkwell on the desk pad, then settled down on the desktop and rubbed its feelers contentedly.
No insect-like, vermiculate or crustacean Abominable, no twitching feelers, rasping wings, slimy coils, curling tentacles, no monstrous union of superhuman intelligence and insatiable cruelty seemed to him anything but likely on an alien world.
His chest was hairless, massive, signified by what must have been at least a hundred tattoos of identical cartoonish red ants with goofy popped eyes and oversized feelers.
She walked into the woods with the coachwhip, using its long butt as a feeler in the dark.
And then he see how it was, and he was the maddest man--he set the frog down and took out after that feeler, but he never ketched him.
The fleshy feelers on the underside of its toothless mouth gave the ancient, sharklike fish a fearsome appearance, but its diet consisted of invertebrates and small fish foraged from the bottom.
The eyestalks bobbed above her, then the feelers swung over and probed her midsection.