whisker

[US]/'wɪskə/
[UK]/'wɪskɚ/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. facial hair; a small projecting hair or bristle on the face or body, typically whisker-like in form

Phrases & Collocations

whisker length

whisker movement

whisker sensor

Example Sentences

the twitchy whiskers of a cat.

They came within a whisker of being killed.

You escaped serious injury by a whisker, so consider yourselves very lucky.

Anyway, who wants to learn all your measly sword tricks.' 'Very well,' said Whiskers, huffily.

However,it suffers from some problems such as tin whisker,surface color changes and bath mudding.

The Spaniard was wrapped in a serape; he had bushy white whiskers; long white hair flowed from under his sombrero, and he wore green goggles.

During the spring of one year he was walking tipsily along the street when he saw, in the sunlight at the base of a wall, Whiskers Wang(T26) stripped to the waist catching lice.

Hepta-hydrate magnesium sulfate, tri-hydrate magnesium sulfate, bi-hydrate magnesium sulfate, one-hydrate magnesium sulfate, anhydrate magnesium sulfate and basic magnesium sulfate whisker, etc.

A. Gurav, B. Stacy, Whiskering Evaluation of Capacitors Mounted with Lead Free Solders, IPC/JEDEC 5th International Conference on Lead Free Electronic Components and Assemblies, March 2004.

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