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feather | sheet |

As nouns the difference between feather and sheet

is that feather is a branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds, used for flight, swimming, protection and display while sheet is a thin bed cloth used as a covering for a mattress or as a layer over the sleeper.

As verbs the difference between feather and sheet

is that feather is to cover or furnish with feathers while sheet is to cover or wrap with cloth, or paper, or other similar material.

feather

English

(wikipedia feather)

Alternative forms

* fether

Noun

(en noun)
  • A branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds, used for flight, swimming, protection and display.
  • * 1873 , W. K. Brooks, "A Feather", Popular Science Monthly , volume IV, page 687
    • Notice, too, that the shaft is not straight, but bent so that the upper surface of the feather is convex, and the lower concave.
  • * 1914 , , The Beasts of Tarzan , chapter V
    • Big fellows they were, all of them, their barbaric headdresses and grotesquely painted faces, together with their many metal ornaments and gorgeously coloured feathers , adding to their wild, fierce appearance.
  • * 2000 , C. J. Puotinen, The Encyclopedia of Natural Pet Care? , page 362
    • Nesting birds pluck some of their own feathers' to line the nest, but ' feather plucking in pet birds is entirely different.
  • Long hair on the lower legs of a dog or horse, especially a draft horse, notably the Clydesdale breed. Narrowly only the rear hair.
  • One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow.
  • A longitudinal strip projecting from an object to strengthen it, or to enter a channel in another object and thereby prevent displacement sideways but permit motion lengthwise; a spline.
  • Kind; nature; species (from the proverbial phrase "birds of a feather").
  • * Shakespeare
    • I am not of that feather to shake off / My friend when he must need me.
  • One of the two shims of the three-piece stone-splitting tool known as (plug and feather) or plug and feathers; the feathers are placed in a borehole and then a wedge is driven between them, causing the stone to split.
    • (Knight)
  • The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water.

    • Synonyms

    * (horse hair) feathers, feathering, horsefeathers

    Antonyms

    * (horse hair at rear of lower legs) spats

    Derived terms

    {{der3, afterfeather , birds of a feather , contour feather , featherback , featherbed , featherbedding , featherbrain , feather-brained , featherdown , feather duster , featherhead , featherily , featheriness , feathering float , feathering screw , feathering strip , feathering wheel , feather in one's cap , feather in one's hat , featherless , featherlight , featherlike , feather pen , feathertail , featherweight , featherwood , feather wool , featherwork , feathery , fine feathers make fine birds , flight feather , horsefeathers , light as a feather}}

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cover or furnish with feathers.
  • * L'Estrange
    • An eagle had the ill hap to be struck with an arrow feathered from her own wing.
  • To arrange in the manner or appearance of feathers.
    • The stylist feathered my hair.
  • (ambitransitive, rowing) To rotate the oars while they are out of the water to reduce wind resistance.
  • (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 doesn't windmill as the aircraft flies.
    • After striking the bird, the pilot feathered the left, damaged engine's propeller.
  • (carpentry, engineering) To finely shave or bevel an edge.
  • (computer graphics) To intergrade or blend the pixels of an image with those of a background or neighboring image.
  • To adorn, as with feathers; to fringe.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • A few birches and oaks still feathered the narrow ravines.
  • To render light as a feather; to give wings to.
  • * Loveday
    • The Polonian story perhaps may feather some tedious hours.
  • To enrich; to exalt; to benefit.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • They stuck not to say that the king cared not to plume his nobility and people to feather himself.
    (Dryden)
  • To tread, as a cock.
    • (Dryden)

    Derived terms

    * feathered * feather one's nest * feather one's own nest * tar and feather

    References

    * Horse Glossary * Horses Glossary * Cowboy Dictionary] – [http://www.cowboyway.com/Dictionary/Letter-F.htm Cowboy F: Feather

    Anagrams

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    sheet

    English

    (wikipedia sheet)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A thin bed cloth used as a covering for a mattress or as a layer over the sleeper.
  • * Use the sheets in the hall closet to make the bed.
  • * Bible, Acts x. 10, 11
    • He fell into a trance, and saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners.
  • * Shakespeare
    • If I do die before thee, prithee, shroud me / In one of those same sheets .
  • A piece of paper, usually rectangular, that has been prepared for writing, artwork, drafting, wrapping, manufacture of packaging (boxes, envelopes, etc.), and for other uses. The word does not include scraps and irregular small pieces destined to be recycled, used for stuffing or cushioning or paper mache, etc.
  • * A sheet of paper measuring eight and one-half inches wide by eleven inches high is a popular item in commerce.
  • * Paper is designated “20 pound” if a stack (ream) of 500 sheets 22 inches by 17 inches weighs 20 pounds.
  • A flat metal pan, often without raised edge, used for baking.
  • * Place the rolls on the cookie sheet , edges touching, and bake for 10-11 minutes.
  • A thin, flat layer of solid material.
  • * The glazer cut several panes from a large sheet of glass.
  • * A sheet''' of that new silicon stuff is as good as a '''sheet of tinfoil to keep food from sticking in the baking pan.
  • A broad, flat expanse of a material on a surface.
  • * Mud froze on the road in a solid sheet''', then more rain froze into a '''sheet of ice on top of the mud!
  • (nautical) A line (rope) used to adjust the trim of a sail.
  • * To be "three sheets to the wind" is to say that a four-cornered sail is tethered only by one sheet and thus the sail is useless.
  • (nautical, nonstandard) A sail.
    • (Dryden)
  • (curling) The area of ice on which the game of curling is played.
  • (nonstandard) A layer of veneer.
  • (figuratively) Precipitation of such quantity and force as to resemble a thin, virtually solid wall.
  • (geology) An extensive bed of an eruptive rock intruded between, or overlying, other strata.
  • (nautical) The space in the forward or after part of a boat where there are no rowers.
    • fore sheets'''; stern '''sheets

    Synonyms

    * (piece of paper) page * (line) rope * (expanse of material) layer, coat, coating, blanket

    Derived terms

    * balance sheet * bedsheet * bleed-sheet * broadsheet * cap sheet * clean sheet * contour sheet * dope sheet * fitted sheet * scandal sheet * scratch sheet * sheet music * stylesheet * tearsheet * three sheets to the wind * tip sheet * top sheet * under the sheets * white as a sheet * worksheet * yellow sheet

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cover or wrap with cloth, or paper, or other similar material.
    • Remember to sheet the floor before you start painting.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Yea, like a stag, when snow the pasture sheets , / The barks of trees thou browsed'st.
  • Of rain, or other precipitation, to pour heavily.
    • We couldn't go out because the rain was sheeting down all day long.
  • (nautical) To trim a sail using a sheet.

    • References

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