English Dictionary

feather

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈfɛð.ə(ɹ)/

動詞

自動詞 他動詞

To cover or furnish with feathers; (when of an arrow) to fletch. / To adorn, as if with feathers; to fringe. / To arrange in the manner or appearance of feathers.

日本語の意味

羽毛で覆う、または羽毛を備える。矢の場合は羽根を取り付ける。 / 羽毛のように飾る、または羽毛で飾り立てる。 / 羽のような形や様式に並べる、配置する。

The costume maker decided to feather the shoulders of the jacket to give it a vintage look.

衣装作りの職人は、ジャケットの肩を羽で覆してヴィンテージ風に仕立てることにした。

意味（1）

To cover or furnish with feathers; (when of an arrow) to fletch.

An Eagle had the ill Hap to be Struck with an Arrow Feather'd from her own Wing.

意味（2）

To adorn, as if with feathers; to fringe.

A few birches and oaks still feathered the narrow ravines, or occupied in dwarf clusters the hollow plains of the moor.

意味（3）

To arrange in the manner or appearance of feathers.

The stylist feathered my hair.

意味（4）

(transitive, intransitive, rowing) To rotate the oars while they are out of the water to reduce wind resistance.

意味（5）

(aeronautics) 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.

After striking the bird, the pilot feathered the damaged left engine’s propeller.

意味（6）

(carpentry, engineering) To finely shave or bevel an edge.

意味（7）

(computer graphics) To intergrade or blend the pixels of an image with those of a background or neighboring image.

意味（8）

(intransitive) Of written or printed ink: to take on a blurry appearance as a result of spreading through the receiving medium.

Whether or not the ink feathers depends upon the paper or card, and also upon the nature of the dye in the ink.

意味（9）

(transitive) To render light as a feather; to give wings to.

The Polonian story, which perhaps may feather some tedious hours.

意味（10）

(transitive) To enrich; to exalt; to benefit.

They stuck not to say that the king cared not to plume his nobility and people to feather himself.

意味（11）

(transitive) To tread, as a cockerel.

Ardent in love[…]He feather'd her a hundred times a day.

意味（12）

(snooker, billiards) To move the cue back and forth along the bridge in preparation for striking the cue ball.

意味（13）

(snooker, billiards) To accidentally touch the cue ball with the tip of the cue when taking aim.

意味（14）

(transitive) To touch lightly, like (or as if with) a feather.

His breath feathered her lips; her spine, her legs weakened, went soft at the wafting warmth.

意味（15）

(transitive) To move softly, like a feather.

She feathered her fingers through Mitchell's hair. “Besides, I like you a whole lot better than Frye.”

feathers （ present singular third-person ）

feathering （ participle present ）

feathered （ participle past ）

feathered （ past ）