feeler
has definitions from the field of zoology
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[ noun ] (zoology) one of a pair of mobile appendages on the head of e.g. insects and crustaceans; typically sensitive to touch and taste
Synonyms Used in print (Jesse Hill Ford, Mountains of Gilead....)Out of the church and into his big car , it tooling over the road with him driving and the headlights sweeping the pike ahead and after he hit college , his expansiveness , the quaint little pine board tourist_courts , cabins really , with a cute naked light_bulb in the ceiling ( unfrosted and naked as a streetlight , like the one on the corner where you used_to play when you were a kid , where you watched the bats swooping in after the bugs , watching in between your bouts at hopscotch ) , a room complete with moths pinging the light and the few casual cockroaches cruising the walls , an insect Highway_Patrol with feelers waving . |
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[ noun ] a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others
Examples "she rejected his advances" Related terms |
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[ noun ] sensitivity similar to that of a receptor organ
Synonyms Examples "he had a special antenna for public relations" Related terms |
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