(n.) 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.
(n.) Anything, as a proposal, observation, etc., put forth or thrown out in order to ascertain the views of others; something tentative.
Example Sentences:
(1) Miliband, who was clear that the motion should be worded in a non-partisan way to try to attract the widest possible support, put out feelers to the Liberal Democrats who can boast the most consistent track record in standing up to the Murdoch empire.
(2) Using a feeler type of cutting mechanism and a scanning electron microscope, cavity walls were examined subsequent to the preparation thereof with various types of working tools.
(3) A new, noninvasive method using a feeler arm to trace and measure facial contours is described.
(4) Sources close to the MDC said the party leadership had put out feelers to the military and elements of the ruling Zanu-PF to try to arrange a peaceful transfer of power.
(5) An optical feeler measuring technique was introduced for evaluating the dimensional accuracy of indirect stone models.
(6) They have handles like “Bum Feeler” and “Rock Hard”, and share stories of their exploits and pictures of the women they have surreptitiously dry-humped.
(7) For 18 months, a special contact unit was putting out feelers to army commanders, trying to understand their contingency plans and to persuade them to remain neutral.
(8) The reconsideration of the US role comes as Washington puts out feelers to the Taliban.
(9) Feelers have already gone out from Cameron’s allies to the Democratic Unionist party (current tally: eight seats).
(10) Kadyrov, in turn, despised Maskhadov, and was jealous of his standing among the Chechens, although Kadyrov's brutish son, Ramzan, recently claimed to be putting out feelers aimed at reaching a settlement with Maskhadov, a move he said was sabotaged by Russian intelligence.
(11) So Trump’s election team, somewhat recklessly, put out early feelers.
(12) The 24 N-terminal amino acids are so poorly defined in the electron density map as to make interpretation doubtful, indicating that they might act as 'feelers' suitable for DNA or protein (invertase) recognition.
(13) Shell ceased operations in 1993 and it says it has no plans to resume them, but local oil firms are putting out feelers, with community chiefs in the area collecting signaturesin favour of resuming drilling.
(14) From time to time, we would get feelers from people who knew him, or on his behalf, on whether we would grant a visa,” Richard Boucher, who worked for the South Asia bureau from 2006 to 2009, told the Wall Street Journal .
(15) The truth was that a rightly aggrieved Mancini had been tipped off about the feelers already going out to José Mourinho and had opted to announce his own sacking in advance.
(16) Putting out feelers The Maryland Democrat has long been preparing for a presidential run.
(17) It showed that measurings on the basis of acceleration registration produced similar results as the 'halter method with plate feelers' used so far and that disturbance of the test animals is reduced.
(18) The adaptation of the processed dentures to the aluminum cast was measured with feeler gauges.
(19) And she would yell at him, 'George, you're walking around with your feelers out!'
(20) They have become so desperate that they have been putting out feelers to minority parties to see if they can construct a Commons majority for revising the boundaries, even though Labour and the Lib Dems are opposed.
Feller
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, fells, knocks or cuts down; a machine for felling trees.
(n.) An appliance to a sewing machine for felling a seam.
Example Sentences:
(1) An explanation of Feller's result enabling the contours of mean viability at a triallelic locus to be rendered circular is offered, and a proof given which does not involve the direct use of homogeneous coordinates.
(2) 'The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke,' symbolically re-enacts the murder and makes talion restitution.
(3) We suggest that the long process of painting 'The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke' recapitulated and made restitution for the murder, encapsulating it so that compulsive expression of violent ideation was largely reduced, allowing other memories and activities to be engaged and expressed.
(4) The word "feller" has a bland meaning of "good fellow" and a more dangerous one of "striker-down".
(5) A similar analysis of expression of the gene CPA1, for which a translational regulation by arginine has been clearly demonstrated (M. Werner, A. Feller, F. Messenguy, and A. Piérard, Cell 49:805-813, 1987), indicates that this gene is also partly regulated at the transcriptional level by the ARGR repressor system.
(6) 11.23am GMT "The gentleman in the car with 'Arry looks suspiciously like this feller ," says Matt Reed.
(7) Its title is "Elimination of a Picture and its subject – called The Feller's Master Stroke ."
(8) Risk was greatest for tree fellers and choker-setters.
(9) Then there is Contradiction: Oberon and Titania (1854-58), depicting the quarrel over the Indian Boy, which was painted for William Charles Hood at Bethlem; and The Fairy Feller , painted for George Henry Haydon, also at Bethlem.
(10) Indirect calorimetry and time studies showed the diurnal energy expenditure in wood fellers to be 5186.2, in their helpers--4476.9 and in branch choppers--5246.9 kcalories.
(11) In Bethlem he painted some amazing paintings, including The Fairy Feller , on which he worked from 1855 and which was left behind unfinished when he was moved to the new asylum of Broadmoor in 1863.
(12) Dadd left a 24-page description of The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke .
(13) There are, as in The Fairy Feller , variegated grasses wreathing randomly over the surface of the work, and delicately depicted lilies of the valley, about as tall as the fairy queen herself.
(14) Our statistical data are similar to those reported by Feller et al.
(15) Richard Dadd' s great painting The Fairy Feller's Master- Stroke shows a leather-clad person, axe raised to cleave a hazelnut, perhaps to make a coach for Queen Mab, as Mercutio describes her in Romeo and Juliet .
(16) There are particularly energetic ones winding across The Fairy Feller , which Dadd describes in "Elimination": Turn to the Patriarch & behold Long pendents from his crown are rolled, In winding figures circling round.
(17) I wanted to be the best in the class but there was always some other feller who was better; so I thought, 'It can't be about being the best, it has to be about the drawing itself, what you do with it.'
(18) Last November Erika Feller, assistant commissioner for refugees at the UNHCR, told the Guardian that the UN accepted Turkey's insistence that its borders were open after travelling to Ankara to discuss the issue.
(19) The method for two-dimensional gel electrophoresis of J. Klose and M. Feller [(1981) Electrophoresis 2, 12-24] has been simplified by reducing the thickness of the gels from 3.5 to 1.1 mm for isoelectric focusing gels and from 3.5 to 0.84 mm for sodium dodecyl sulfate slab gels.