feather

Etymology
From, from , from , from , from , from.

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Noun

 * 1) A branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds, used for flight, swimming, protection and display.
 * 2) Long hair on the lower legs of a dog or horse, especially a draft horse, notably the Clydesdale breed. Narrowly only the rear hair.
 * 3) One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow.
 * 4) A longitudinal strip projecting from an object to strengthen it, or to enter a channel in another object and thereby prevent displacement sideways but permit motion lengthwise; a spline.
 * 5) Kind; nature; species (from the proverbial phrase "birds of a feather").
 * 6) One of the two shims of the three-piece stone-splitting tool known as  or plug and feathers; the feathers are placed in a borehole and then a wedge is driven between them, causing the stone to split.
 * 7) The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water.
 * 8) Anything petty or trifling; a whit or jot.
 * 9)  Partridges and pheasants, as opposed to rabbits and hares (called fur).
 * 10)  A junction indicator attached to a colour-light signal at an angle, which lights up, typically with four white lights in a row, when a diverging route is set up.
 * 1) One of the two shims of the three-piece stone-splitting tool known as  or plug and feathers; the feathers are placed in a borehole and then a wedge is driven between them, causing the stone to split.
 * 2) The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water.
 * 3) Anything petty or trifling; a whit or jot.
 * 4)  Partridges and pheasants, as opposed to rabbits and hares (called fur).
 * 5)  A junction indicator attached to a colour-light signal at an angle, which lights up, typically with four white lights in a row, when a diverging route is set up.
 * 1)  Partridges and pheasants, as opposed to rabbits and hares (called fur).
 * 2)  A junction indicator attached to a colour-light signal at an angle, which lights up, typically with four white lights in a row, when a diverging route is set up.

Translations

 * Acehnese: bulee
 * Afrikaans:, pluim
 * Ainu: コンコン, コンコニ, ラㇷ゚
 * Aklanon: buebue
 * Albanian: ,
 * Amharic: ላባ
 * Arabic: رِيش,  رِيشَة
 * Egyptian Arabic: ريش, ريشة
 * Argobba: ላባ
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: peanã
 * Assamese: পাখি
 * Asturian:
 * Avar: хӏули
 * Azerbaijani: ,
 * Bashkir: ҡауырһын, ҡаурый; йөн
 * Basque: luma
 * Belarusian: пяро́
 * Bengali:
 * Bikol Central:
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Buryat: үдэн
 * Catalan:
 * Chamicuro: pwaye
 * Chechen: пелаг
 * Chichewa: nthenga
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Chuvash: тӗк
 * Classical Nahuatl: tototzontli, ihhuitl
 * Cornish: pluven
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Erzya: толга
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Evenki: дэктэннэ
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Friulian: plume, pene
 * Galician:, pruma, , froixel, faixel
 * Georgian: ბუმბული
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: πτερόν
 * Guaraní:
 * Gujarati: પીછું
 * Haitian Creole: plim
 * Hawaiian: hulu
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Ineseño: qap
 * Ingrian: sulka
 * Ingush: бедарг
 * Interlingua: pluma, penna
 * Iranun: bumbul
 * Irish: cleite
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Javanese:
 * Kalmyk: өдн, өдн
 * Kashubian: pióro
 * Kazakh: қауырсын
 * Khmer:
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: پەڕ
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Kyrgyz: канаттын бир талы, куштун бир тал жүнү
 * Lao:
 * Latgalian: spolva
 * Latin: plūma, penna
 * Latvian:
 * Lingala: lonsálá
 * Lithuanian:
 * Low German:
 * German Low German: Fedder
 * Luhya:
 * Lutshootseed: c'ic'al
 * Luxembourgish:, Plomm
 * Macedonian: перо
 * Maguindanao: bumbul
 * Malay: bulu pelepah
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese: rix
 * Manchu: ᡩᡝᡨᡥᡝ, ᡶᡠᠩᡤᠠᡥᠠ
 * Maori: huru, meremere, hou , hikurangi , kīra , kurutou , , maeko , marihope , matakīrea , remu , hūmaeko , kōtore , kururemu , hukumaro , matakīrea , waitiripapā
 * Maranao: bombol
 * Marathi: पीस
 * Mbyá Guaraní: ague
 * Mongolian:, өрөвлөг
 * Nanai: дэктэчэ
 * Navajo: atʼaʼ
 * Nepali: प्वाँख
 * Norman: plleume
 * North Frisian: Feđer
 * Northern Altai: ньум
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: ,
 * Nynorsk:
 * Occitan:
 * Odia:
 * Ojibwe: miigwan
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic: перо
 * Old East Slavic: перо
 * Old English: feþer
 * Old Norse: fjǫðr
 * Old Tupi: aba, pepó
 * Oromo: baallee
 * Ottoman Turkish: توی
 * Papiamentu: pluma
 * Pashto: ,
 * Persian:
 * Piedmontese: piuma
 * Plautdietsch: Fada, Poos
 * Polabian: perü
 * Polish:
 * Pontic Greek: φτερὀν, φτερούγιν, φτερούλ', κανάτ', γανάτ'
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Punjabi:
 * Quechua: phuru, patpa
 * Rohingya: fóoir
 * Romagnol: pióma
 * Romani: pōr
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Samogitian:
 * Sanskrit:
 * Sardinian: pinna, pinnia
 * Scottish Gaelic: ite
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: пѐро
 * Roman:
 * Sicilian:
 * Sinhalese: පිහාටුවක්
 * Slovak: pierko, pero
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: pjero
 * Southern Altai: јум, јуҥ, тӱк
 * Southern Kam: bienl
 * Southern Ohlone: sippos
 * Spanish:
 * Sranan Tongo: fowruwiwiri
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Sylheti: ꠙꠣꠈ, ꠙꠣꠟꠇ
 * Tagalog: balahibo,, pulad
 * Tai Dam: khôn
 * Tajik: пар
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar:
 * Tausug: bulbul
 * Telugu:
 * Tetum: fulun
 * Thai: ขนนก,
 * Tibetan: བྱ་སྒྲོ
 * Tok Pisin:
 * Tupinambá: aba
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: ýelek
 * Ukrainian: перо́
 * Urdu: پنکھ, پر
 * Uyghur: پەي, تۈك
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Venetian: pena
 * Vietnamese:, , lông chim
 * Volapük:, bödaplüm, , bödaplümem ,  , bödapen
 * Walloon: ,
 * Warao: huhi
 * Welsh:, , ,
 * West Frisian: fear, plom, pinne
 * White Hmong: plaub noog
 * Yagnobi: бал
 * Yakut: куорсун
 * Yiddish: פֿעדער
 * Zazaki: purt
 * Zealandic: plume
 * Zhuang: bwnsienq, bwn
 * Zulu: uphaphe


 * Finnish: vuohiskarva
 * French:
 * Italian:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * Tagalog: sima


 * Finnish:, liukukiila


 * Finnish:
 * Korean: ,


 * Finnish:

Verb



 * 1) To cover or furnish with feathers;  to fletch.
 * 2) To adorn, as if with feathers; to fringe.
 * 3) To arrange in the manner or appearance of feathers.
 * 4)  To rotate the oars while they are out of the water to reduce wind resistance.
 * 5)  To streamline the blades of an aircraft's propeller by rotating them perpendicular to the axis of the propeller when the engine is shut down so that the propeller does not windmill during flight.
 * 6)  To finely shave or bevel an edge.
 * 7)  To intergrade or blend the pixels of an image with those of a background or neighboring image.
 * 8)  Of written or printed ink: to take on a blurry appearance as a result of spreading through the receiving medium.
 * 9)  To render light as a feather; to give wings to.
 * 10) * c. 1650, Robert Loveday, letter to Mr. C.
 * The Polonian story, which perhaps may feather some tedious hours.
 * 1)  To enrich; to exalt; to benefit.
 * 2)  To tread, as a cockerel.
 * 3)  To move the cue back and forth along the bridge in preparation for striking the cue ball.
 * 4)  To accidentally touch the cue ball with the tip of the cue when taking aim.
 * 5)  To touch lightly, like (or as if with) a feather.
 * 6)  To move softly, like a feather.
 * 7) * 2005, Radclyffe, Justice Served, Bold Strokes Books Inc (ISBN 9781602822665):
 * She feathered her fingers through Mitchell&#39;s hair. “Besides, I like you a whole lot better than Frye.”
 * 1)  To tread, as a cockerel.
 * 2)  To move the cue back and forth along the bridge in preparation for striking the cue ball.
 * 3)  To accidentally touch the cue ball with the tip of the cue when taking aim.
 * 4)  To touch lightly, like (or as if with) a feather.
 * 5)  To move softly, like a feather.
 * 6) * 2005, Radclyffe, Justice Served, Bold Strokes Books Inc (ISBN 9781602822665):
 * She feathered her fingers through Mitchell&#39;s hair. “Besides, I like you a whole lot better than Frye.”
 * 1)  To move softly, like a feather.
 * 2) * 2005, Radclyffe, Justice Served, Bold Strokes Books Inc (ISBN 9781602822665):
 * She feathered her fingers through Mitchell&#39;s hair. “Besides, I like you a whole lot better than Frye.”
 * She feathered her fingers through Mitchell&#39;s hair. “Besides, I like you a whole lot better than Frye.”

Translations

 * Bulgarian: оперявам
 * Finnish: peittää sulilla, peittää höyhenillä
 * German:
 * Ido:
 * Swahili:


 * Finnish: sommitella höyheniksi
 * Swahili:


 * Finnish: kääntää lappeelleen
 * Swahili:


 * Finnish:, kääntää lepuutusasentoon
 * French: mettre en drapeau
 * Swahili:


 * Finnish:, pontata
 * Swahili:


 * Danish:
 * French: ,