feather

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

   befiedern

   cover or fit with feathers

2. To adorn, as if with feathers; to fringe.

   grow feathers

3. To arrange in the manner or appearance of feathers.

   The stylist feathered my hair.

4. (ambitransitive)To rotate the oars while they are out of the water to reduce wind resistance.

5. 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.

6. To finely shave or bevel an edge.

7. To intergrade or blend the pixels of an image with those of a background or neighboring image.

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

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

   c. 1650, Robert Loveday, letter to Mr. C. The Polonian story, which perhaps may feather some tedious hours.

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

11. (transitive)To tread, as a cockerel.

12. To move the cue back and forth along the bridge in preparation for striking the cue ball.

1. Birds of a feather flock together.

   Два чоботи пара.

   ruРыбак рыбака видит издалека.

   deGleich und Gleich gesellt sich gern.

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2. Tom picked up a feather and examined it.

   Том підняв перо та оглянув його.

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3. Do all birds have feathers?

   Чи всі птахи мають пір'я?

   ruУ всех птиц есть перья?

   deHaben alle Vögel Federn?

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4. Tom suffocated Mary with a feather pillow.

   ruТом задушил Мэри перьевой подушкой.

   deTom erstickte Mary mit einem Daunenkissen.

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5. This is as light as a feather.

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