Father vs. Feather

A father is the male parent of a child. Besides the paternal bonds of a father to his children, the father may have a parental, legal, and social relationship with the child that carries with it certain rights and obligations.

Feathers are epidermal growths that form a distinctive outer covering, or plumage, on dinosaurs, both avian (bird) and some non-avian (non-bird) and possibly other archosauromorphs. They are considered the most complex integumentary structures found in vertebrates and a premier example of a complex evolutionary novelty.

A male whose sperm unites with an egg, producing an embryo.

One of the light, flat structures growing from the skin of birds, consisting of numerous slender, closely arranged parallel barbs forming a vane on either side of a horny, tapering, partly hollow shaft.

A male whose impregnation of a female results in the birth of a child.

A feathery tuft or fringe of hair, as on the legs or tail of some dogs.

A man who adopts a child.

Character, kind, or nature

A man who raises a child.

A strip, wedge, or flange used as a strengthening part.

A male parent of an animal.

A wedge or key that fits into a groove to make a joint.

A male ancestor

The vane of an arrow.

A man who creates, originates, or founds something

A feather-shaped flaw, as in a precious stone.

A man who serves or is thought of as a protector

The wake made by a submarine's periscope.

God.

The act of feathering the blade of an oar in rowing.

The first person of the Christian Trinity.

To cover, dress, or decorate with feathers or featherlike projections.

An elderly or venerable man. Used as a title of respect.

To fit (an arrow) with a feather.

One of the leading men, as of a city

To thin, reduce, or fringe the edge of (wood, for example) by cutting, shaving, or making thinner.

or Father A church father.

To spread (paint, for example) thinly at the edges so as to blend with the surrounding area.

A member of the senate in ancient Rome.

To shorten and taper (hair) by cutting and thinning.

A priest or clergyman in the Roman Catholic or Anglican churches.

To blur or soften the edge of (an image).

Used as a title and form of address with or without the clergyman's name.

To apply (a brake, throttle, or other control) gently or slightly and steadily.

To provide the sperm that unites with an egg to produce (an embryo, fetus, or child).

To turn (an oar blade) almost horizontal as it is carried back after each stroke.

To act or serve as a father to (a child).

To alter the pitch of (a propeller) so that the chords of the blades are parallel with the line of flight.

To create, found, or originate

To alter the pitch of (the rotor of a helicopter) while in forward flight.

To attribute the paternity, creation, or origin of

To turn off (an aircraft engine) while in flight.

To act or serve as a father.

To grow feathers or become feathered.

A (generally human) male who begets a child.

To move, spread, or grow in a manner suggestive of feathers

A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor.

To become thin or less dense at the edges

A term of respectful address for an elderly man.

To feather an oar.

A term of respectful address for a priest.

To feather a propeller.

A person who plays the role of a father in some way.

A branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds, used for flight, swimming, protection and display.

The founder of a discipline or science.

Long hair on the lower legs of a dog or horse, especially a draft horse, notably the Clydesdale breed. Narrowly only the rear hair.

Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind.

One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow.

Something inanimate that begets.

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.

(Christianity) A member of a church council.

Kind; nature; species (from the proverbial phrase "birds of a feather").

(computing) The archived older version of a file that immediately precedes the current version, and was itself derived from the grandfather.

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.

To be a father to; to sire.

The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water.

(figuratively) To give rise to.

Anything petty or trifling; a whit or jot.

To act as a father; to support and nurture.

Partridges and pheasants, as opposed to rabbits and hares (called fur).

To provide with a father.

(rail) A junction indicator attached to a colour-light signal at an angle, which lights up, typically with four white lights in a row, when a diverging route is set up.

To adopt as one's own.

To cover or furnish with feathers; to fletch.

One who has begotten a child, whether son or daughter; a generator; a male parent.

To adorn, as if with feathers; to fringe.

A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor; a founder of a race or family; - in the plural, fathers, ancestors.

To arrange in the manner or appearance of feathers.

One who performs the offices of a parent by maintenance, affetionate care, counsel, or protection.

To rotate the oars while they are out of the water to reduce wind resistance.

A respectful mode of address to an old man.

(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.

A senator of ancient Rome.

To finely shave or bevel an edge.

A dignitary of the church, a superior of a convent, a confessor (called also father confessor), or a priest; also, the eldest member of a profession, or of a legislative assembly, etc.

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

One of the chief ecclesiastical authorities of the first centuries after Christ; - often spoken of collectively as the Fathers; as, the Latin, Greek, or apostolic Fathers.

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

One who, or that which, gives origin; an originator; a producer, author, or contriver; the first to practice any art, profession, or occupation; a distinguished example or teacher.

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

The Supreme Being and Creator; God; in theology, the first person in the Trinity.

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

To make one's self the father of; to beget.

(transitive) To tread, as a cockerel.

To take as one's own child; to adopt; hence, to assume as one's own work; to acknowledge one's self author of or responsible for (a statement, policy, etc.).

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

To provide with a father.

To accidentally touch the cue ball with the tip of the cue when taking aim.

a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father);

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

the founder of a family;

(transitive) To move softly, like a feather.

`Father' is a term of address for priests in some churches (especially the Roman Catholic Church or the Orthodox Catholic Church); `Padre' is frequently used in the military

One of the peculiar dermal appendages, of several kinds, belonging to birds, as contour feathers, quills, and down.

(Christianity) any of about 70 theologians in the period from the 2nd to the 7th century whose writing established and confirmed official church doctrine; in the Roman Catholic Church some were later declared saints and became Doctor of the Church; the best known Lation Church Fathers are Ambrose, Augustine, Gregory the Great, and Jerome; those who wrote in Greek include Athanasius, Basil, Gregory Nazianzen, and John Chrysostom

Kind; nature; species; - from the proverbial phrase, "Birds of a feather," that is, of the same species.

a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization;

The fringe of long hair on the legs of the setter and some other dogs.

God when considered as the first person in the Trinity;

A tuft of peculiar, long, frizzly hair on a horse.

a person who founds or establishes some institution;

One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow.

the head of an organized crime family

A longitudinal strip projecting as a fin from an object, to strengthen it, or to enter a channel in another object and thereby prevent displacement sidwise but permit motion lengthwise; a spline.

make children;

A thin wedge driven between the two semicylindrical parts of a divided plug in a hole bored in a stone, to rend the stone.

The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water.

To furnish with a feather or feathers, as an arrow or a cap.

To adorn, as with feathers; to fringe.

To render light as a feather; to give wings to.

To enrich; to exalt; to benefit.

To tread, as a cock.

To grow or form feathers; to become feathered; - often with out; as, the birds are feathering out.

To curdle when poured into another liquid, and float about in little flakes or "feathers;" as, the cream feathers.

To turn to a horizontal plane; - said of oars.

To have the appearance of a feather or of feathers; to be or to appear in feathery form.

the light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds

turning an oar parallel to the water between pulls

join tongue and groove, in carpentry

cover or fit with feathers

turn the paddle; in canoeing

turn the oar, while rowing

grow feathers;