whisker in English

noun
1
a long projecting hair or bristle growing from the face or snout of many mammals.
Every once in a while, particularly when I take out clothes that I haven't worn since our move, I find a cat whisker or a dog hair.
2
a very small amount.
they won the election by a whisker
3
a spar for extending the clews of a sail so that it can catch more wind.
Between the whiskers and the fore-mast.
noun

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1. He missed the first prize by a whisker.

2. Davidson won the election by a whisker.

3. They came within a whisker of being killed.

4. It was the Walrus by a whisker.

5. The Communist candidate lost by a whisker .

6. She missed the first prize by a whisker.

7. I just barely qualified for admission by a whisker.

8. One of our favourites is the Beadeye Black & Olive Cats Whisker

9. The buildings started a whisker away from the shoreline.

10. Unemployment is now a whisker away from three million.

11. Abrasive powder coatings and methods for inhibiting tin whisker growth

12. 14 The buildings started a whisker away from the shoreline.

13. The present invention is process of preparing nanometer zinc oxide crystal whisker.

14. She came within a whisker of taking a gold medal.

15. Goal of the week by a whisker, it is Swindon's second at Bristol City.

16. Schmidt finished second, losing by a whisker in the final event.

17. A new pet census showed that cats now outnumber dogs by a whisker .

18. Even abstention would have put the Government within a whisker of victory.

19. The Whisker® equivalent to the NO.5® Coupler is the #148.

20. Doctors say he came within a whisker of dying on the operating table.

21. 12 Mixed Cats Whisker, Beadeye and Goldhead Fishing Flies - Select your size choice

22. From the crude spark-gap transmitters and “cat’s-whisker”detectors at its beginning

23. The elastic modulus of the aluminium alloy clearly increases due to the whisker reinforcement.

24. ZnO whisker , the only tetrapod among all kinds of whiskers, possesses good comprehensive properties.

25. Shares did well, up again yesterday to 555p, a whisker below their peak of 558p.

26. 61 synonyms for Bristle: hair, spine, thorn, whisker, barb, stubble, prickle, point, spur, needle, spike

27. This cortical-Claustral-cortical circuit plays a role in whisker movements for orientation and palpation

28. Synonyms for Antennule include feeler, antenna, tentacle, barb, hair, pedipalp, tactor, whisker, barbel and horn

29. He finished second in the 1988 Superstars, losing by a whisker in the final event.

30. Five months later, the two firms are within a whisker of agreeing on a deal.

31. Tacca, a genus of tropical herbs, possesses near black flowers, conspicuous involucral bracts and whisker-like filiform Bracteoles

32. The brown bullhead is a smooth-skinned catfish with a mottled, brownish body and whisker-like Barbels around the mouth

33. The other close decision was when de Silva was within a whisker of being run out.

34. Traditional Bowsprits incorporated a bobstay and even whisker stays to reduce the bending loads at the fulcrum

35. We crowded round the table, straining our ears for the magic sounds, while Robert adjusted the cat's whisker.

36. And earlier this year Sir Charles escaped bankruptcy by a whisker as his debts soared to £6 million.

37. The smooth finish of siC whiskers was affected by the whisker′s growing supersaturation in some special areas and the protective atmosphere.

38. Tacca, a genus of tropical herbs, possesses near black flowers, conspicuous involucral Bracts and whisker-like filiform bracteoles

39. Henderson almost made it four in four as Guy Whittal failed by a whisker to get an edge to the next delivery.

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41. Simulations concerning the thermomechanical behaviour of a SiC whisker-reinforced aluminium alloy are carried out with the finite-element method.

42. Plants of this genus possess near black flowers, conspicuous involucral bracts, and whisker-like filiform Bracteoles (Zhang et al., 2011a)

43. Catfish have up to eight "Barbels" (whisker-like appendages) located on the chin or sides of the mouth

44. The Stock Market ended the day up almost 50 points and finished within a whisker of its all-time high.

45. In a race that was ultimately won by a whisker, the Powell effect may even have made the difference for Bush.

46. The four whisker-like organs on it mouth called Barbels, help this fish feel for food such as molluscs and larvae

47. One of the difficulties in the early stages of this work was to find any reasonably reliable method of measuring whisker strengths.

48. A range of elastic coatings have been developed based on elastic polyurethane resin as binder, zinc oxide crystal whisker as functional pigment, and other color pigments, fumed silica and additives.

49. This benthic beast gets its name from the single whisker-like barbel hanging under its mouth.But the Burbot is known by many other names depending on where yo

50. After that, he sat feeling his right-side flaxen curls and whisker, and following Mrs Joe about with his blue eyes, as his manner always was at squally times.