(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.
Keeler
Definition:
(n.) One employed in managing a Newcastle keel; -- called also keelman.
(n.) A small or shallow tub; esp., one used for holding materials for calking ships, or one used for washing dishes, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) A former showgirl from the gravel pits of Wraysbury in Berkshire, Keeler was just 19 and was staying on the estate with her friend, patron and (some said) pimp, the society osteopath Stephen Ward.
(2) Keeler was to constantly relive her ever-changing four months in 1962 with Profumo.
(3) The Sunday Mirror reprinted Profumo's 'Darling' letter, while the News of the World famously photographed Keeler sitting naked astride a fashionably modern chair, an image that would come to epitomise the Swinging Sixties.
(4) The chances of Keeler being installed in Downing Street were infinitesimal.
(5) The Keeler NCT nearly fulfills the needed criteria for the first group with pressure under 23 mm Hg except for a high standard deviation.
(6) Using the Konan-Keeler specular microscope, panoramic specular microscopy covering almost one quadrant of the anterior capsule was performed.
(7) We conducted comparative measurements with 100 healthy probands and patients suffering of glaucoma with both a Goldmann Applanation Tonometer (GAT) and the new Keeler Non Contact Tonometer (NCT).
(8) The Keeler Pulsair is a noncontact tonometer which can be used by those without specialist ophthalmic training.
(9) Intraocular pressure was evaluated in 414 eyes using Keeler Pulsair tonometry in comparison with values obtained by Goldmann tonometry.
(10) Increases in lens opacity measured by the Lens Opacity Meter 701, the Keeler Projectoscopy and clinical grading.
(11) Although MI5 had known about Profumo's dalliance with Keeler for many months, the first politician to learn about it was John Lewis, the former Labour MP for Bolton, who mistakenly thought Stephen Ward had seduced his wife.
(12) The Pulsair non-contact tonometer (Keeler Pulsair: Keeler UK) has been shown to be a versatile instrument particularly suitable for screening for raised intraocular pressure.
(13) The results shows that self-tonometry with the Pulsair-Keeler tonometer can be used in monitoring glaucomatous patients at home.
(14) The recently-introduced Pulsair non-contact tonometer (Keeler Instruments, Inc, Broomall, PA) was evaluated against the Goldmann applanation tonometer in cannulated post mortem human eyes, and in living subjects at three clinical centers.
(15) One of these is the Keeler Pulsair non-contact tonometer which uses pressurized air in measurement.
(16) And Keeler, a doe-eyed beauty just 21 when the scandal broke, was the perfect representative of a generation already associated with greater frankness, self-indulgence and sexual curiosity.
(17) "If Richard had appointed Christine Keeler, I might have intervened," Cook said later, "but Ian was the ideal choice."
(18) We used a camera and flash electrically coupled to an American Optical Non-Contact II tonometer (Cambridge Instruments Inc, Cambridge, Mass) or a Keeler Pulsair tonometer (Keeler Instruments Inc, Broomall, Pa) to photograph the corneal profile during tonometry.
(19) Andy had been passed a copy of a compromising letter from Profumo to Keeler by the Tory MP Henry Kirby.
(20) Using a contactless tonometer of Keeler Co. the authors assessed the intraocular pressure in enucleated eyeballs and compared the values with the intraocular pressure assessed in the eyeballs by means of a water manometer.