feeler

[US]/'fiːlə/
[UK]/'filɚ/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. antenna; someone who tests the waters; thickness gauge.

Phrases & Collocations

sensitive feeler

emotional feeler

social feeler

tentative feeler

Example Sentences

they were sufficiently depressed to put out peace feelers .

They’re putting out feelers about the possibility of building a new sports complex in Leeds.

The Feeler Antlion needs to be kept alive and tanked, and it will spawn an Executioner Antlion periodically.

The letter was a feeler to see how he would look upon such a movement.

Real-world Examples

I'd better get my feelers out for this Golem character.

Source: Sherlock Original Soundtrack (Season 1)

So you could say I might put the feelers out to see what the team thinks.

Source: Emma's delicious English

Do you see the two short feelers which stick out in front of the crab's head?

Source: British Students' Science Reader

I put out feelers to some of my contacts at New York's finest hotels.

Source: Sherlock Holmes: The Basic Deduction Method Season 2

Step Three: Would you consider yourself more of a thinker or a feeler?

Source: Daily English Listening | Bilingual Intensive Reading

Under these horns are two much shorter feelers. Below these again is the mouth.

Source: British Students' Science Reader

The feelers of the moth have pointed ends.

Source: British Students' Science Reader

Spiders, again, have no feelers in front of their heads, as insects have.

Source: British Students' Science Reader

It has two round eyes, at the end of short eye-stalks, close to the feelers.

Source: British Students' Science Reader

Then it has two feelers, which stick out in front like little brushes.

Source: British Students' Science Reader

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