(n.) A comb for dressing flax, raw silk, etc.; a hatchel.
(n.) Any flimsy substance unspun, as raw silk.
(n.) One of the peculiar, long, narrow feathers on the neck of fowls, most noticeable on the cock, -- often used in making artificial flies; hence, any feather so used.
(n.) An artificial fly for angling, made of feathers.
(v. t.) To separate, as the coarse part of flax or hemp from the fine, by drawing it through the teeth of a hackle or hatchel.
(v. t.) To tear asunder; to break in pieces.
Example Sentences:
(1) Those differences can be summarized as follows: (1) the occurrence of pronounced, highly curved hackle marks, which could in many instances be mistaken for conchoidal marks;(2)the appearance of the beveled edges bordering the cratering on the side opposite origin of force; and (3) a more apparent tendency toward an inverse relationship of muzzle velocity and energy to radial fracture length and degree of curving along crater boundaries.
(2) Scholars on both sides of the Pacific say they are alarmed at the potential for US-China relations to break down if Trump continues to raise Beijing’s hackles over sensitive issues such as Taiwan.
(3) Those views have raised hackles among some US conservatives.
(4) A homogeneous batch of dew retted hackled flax was divided into two portions.
(5) The decision raised hackles both in Washington, where it was feared it would tarnish the credibility of the war effort, and in Afghanistan, where many local people concluded the Americans were not serious about rooting out corruption and misgovernance.
(6) Defenders of free speech have had their hackles raised and Boris laughs all the way to City Hall.
(7) It does like to nudge you towards paying, which may raise hackles of some fans of the original.
(8) David Cameron raised the hackles of critics when he announced the idea at an EU summit last month , with some comparing it to Australia’s controversial interception policy.
(9) More often, standups raise hackles not by Gervais-level crassness, but by sacrificing propriety in their race to be funniest first when news breaks.
(10) Anything that looks like a return to the Dickensian workhouse raises hackles.
(11) On one of the biggest issues facing Europe – policy towards Ukraine and President Vladimir Putin of Russia – she and Italy are seen as being overly pro-Russian, raising hackles, especially in eastern Europe where Poland's foreign minister, Radek Sikorski, would also like the job.
(12) I think we were just scratchy and hackles up and defensive.
(13) At least one reporter has made the mistake recently of referring to him as a "wheeler-dealer" prompting him to stomp off in disgust, his hackles raised by all the tired barrow-boy, Arthur Daley analogies.
(14) When Bill Gates handpicked Dryden to be his head of agriculture in 2010, he came with a CV certain to raise the hackles of anyone who distrusted global agribusiness.
(15) Hastings Law professor Ahmed Ghappour recently called that effort “possibly the broadest expansion of extraterritorial surveillance power since the FBI’s inception.” But the FBI is trying to alter those rules without raising privacy advocates’ hackles (though luckily some have caught on ).
(16) These would raise hackles with several countries, the Conservative MEP Ian Duncan warned.
(17) BitTorrent (the company) works with some artists to distribute music and multimedia bundles for free, but its name still raises hackles within the music industry over the impact of BitTorrent (the technology) on piracy.
(18) So what's really raising hackles is not the number of people who cannot communicate or be communicated with.
(19) Party leader Natalie Bennett has raised hackles by backing a new school in north London.
(20) That has also raised hackles everywhere else because of perceived high-handed prescriptions from Berlin combined with Merkel's maddening caution and refusal to be rushed in a crisis.
Plume
Definition:
(v.) A feather; esp., a soft, downy feather, or a long, conspicuous, or handsome feather.
(v.) An ornamental tuft of feathers.
(v.) A feather, or group of feathers, worn as an ornament; a waving ornament of hair, or other material resembling feathers.
(v.) A token of honor or prowess; that on which one prides himself; a prize or reward.
(v.) A large and flexible panicle of inflorescence resembling a feather, such as is seen in certain large ornamental grasses.
(v. t.) To pick and adjust the plumes or feathers of; to dress or prink.
(v. t.) To strip of feathers; to pluck; to strip; to pillage; also, to peel.
(v. t.) To adorn with feathers or plumes.
(v. t.) To pride; to vaunt; to boast; -- used reflexively; as, he plumes himself on his skill.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the 19th century, Newtown Creek was a centre for oil refining and other industries, which left behind a massive oil plume.
(2) On computer screens, the plume showed up as a patch of sky where levels of ash were above 200 micrograms per cubic metre.
(3) Using field observations, modelling techniques and theoretical analysis, parameters describing the performance and collection efficiency of large industrial canopy fume hoods are established for, a) steady state collection of fume and b) collection of plumes with fluctuating flowrates.
(4) Papillomavirus DNA has been reported recently in the vapor (smoke plume) derived from warts treated with carbon dioxide laser; this raises concerns for operator safety.
(5) The footage beamed back from the liberated districts of Ramadi is grim: a ghost town littered with debris and smashed concrete, destroyed storefronts, plumes of smoke, the sound of gunfire piercing the air as Iraqi soldiers speak on camera.
(6) Polar conductivity data substantiate the fact that small air ions of one polarity in the plume are elevated while those of opposite polarity are suppressed compared to background concentrations found in the rural environment.
(7) The soundtrack is supplied by vinyl rotating on vintage record players, a gumball machine dispenses yellow, black and white gobstoppers, and the room is surveilled by the beady eyes of esoteric taxidermy that includes a peacock in full plume and a splendid Himalayan wild goat grazing among the soft seating.
(8) These "plume cells" are about 30-40 microns long and have an extremely irregular nucleus in their expanded terminus.
(9) Plumes of smoke rose above Kathmandu as friends, relatives and others gathered by the river to quickly cremate their loved ones’ remains.
(10) The fire also burned two vehicles and a US Forest Service garage and sent an enormous ashy plume over the mountains.
(11) Using satellite imagery, researchers could map the areas of coral covered by plumes of sediment released by the dredging process.
(12) The results allow the following changes in the germ counts in the plume of a wet cooling tower to be expected: 1.
(13) May 31, 2017 Images posted on social media showed a huge plume of smoke in the sky.
(14) A large plume of smoke rises from what is said to be Baiji oil refinery in Baiji, northern Iraq.
(15) It released a video of a vehicle driving away down a road, followed later by a plume of smoke rising in the distance.
(16) The city, one of the largest Kurdish bastions of resistance to Isis in northern Syria, was shaken by heavy shelling from the advancing militants at dusk on Friday, sending plumes of smoke skywards and more refugees scrambling across the border into Turkey .
(17) This surplus was interpreted as due to dry deposition from the plume, and deposition velocities were estimated at 0.02-0.10 m s-1.
(18) For Cohn, a teddy boy at heart, neither came close to the glamour and speed fix of the rapidly receding “golden age” he wrote about with such dash: Elvis’s “great ducktail plume and lopsided grin”, Phil Spector’s “beautiful noise”, and James Brown, “the outlaw, the Stagger Lee of his time”.
(19) We have calculated washout factors for locations where there are data on deposition, rainfall and air concentrations during the passage of the Chernobyl plume.
(20) were detected in one-third of the samples and low numbers of Campylobacter jejuni were found in the sewage and plume.