One of a pair of mobile appendages on the head of e.g. insects and crustaceans; typically sensitive to touch and taste.

synonym: antenna.

Roget 379: touch; tact, taction^†, tactility; feeling; palpation, palpability; contrectation^†; manipulation; massage.    [Organ of touch] hand, finger, forefinger, thumb, paw, feeler, antenna; palpus^†.    ... show more

Roget 463: experiment; essay etc. (attempt) 675; analysis etc. (investigation) 461; screen; trial, tentative method, t=atonnement.    verification, probation, experimentum crucis [Lat.], proof, (demonstration) 478; criterion, diagnostic, test, probe, crucial test, acid test, litmus test.    crucible, reagent, check, touchstone, pix^†; assay, ordeal; ring; litmus paper, curcuma paper^†, turmeric paper; test tube; analytical instruments etc. 633.    empiricism, rule of thumb.    feeler; trial balloon, pilot balloon, messenger balloon; pilot engine; scout; straw to show the wind.    speculation, random shot, leap in the dark.    analyzer, analyst, assayist^†; adventurer; experimenter, experimentist^†, experimentalist; scientist, engineer, technician.    subject, experimentee^†, guinea pig, experimental animal.    [experimental method] protocol, experimental method, blind experiment, double-blind experiment, controlled experiment.    poll, survey, opinion poll.    epidemiological survey [Med.], retrospective analysis, retrospective survey, prospective survey, prospective analysis; statistical analysis.    literature search, library research.    tryout, audition.    [results of experiment] discovery etc. 480; measurement etc. 466; evidence etc. 467.    [reasoning about an experiment] deduction, induction, abduction.    ... show more

Roget 461: inquiry; request etc. 765; search, research, quest, pursuit etc. 622.    examination, review, scrutiny, investigation, indagation^†; perquisition^†, perscrutation^†, pervestigation^†; inquest, inquisition; exploration; exploitation, ventilation.    sifting; calculation, analysis, dissection, resolution, induction; Baconian method^†.    strict inquiry, close inquiry, searching inquiry, exhaustive inquiry; narrow search, strict search; study etc. (consideration) 451.    scire facias [Lat.], ad referendum; trial.    questioning etc. v.; interrogation, interrogatory; interpellation; challenge, examination, cross-examination, catechism; feeler, Socratic method, zetetic philosophy^†; leading question; discussion etc. (reasoning) 476.    reconnoitering, reconnaissance; prying etc. v.; espionage, espionnage [Fr.]; domiciliary visit, peep behind the curtain; lantern of Diogenes.    question, query, problem, desideratum, point to be solved, porism^†; subject of inquiry, field of inquiry, subject of controversy; point in dispute, matter in dispute; moot point; issue, question at issue; bone of contention etc. (discord) 713; plain question, fair question, open question; enigma etc. (secret) 533; knotty point etc. (difficulty) 704; quodlibet; threshold of an inquiry.    [person who questions] inquirer, investigator, inquisitor, inspector, querist^†, examiner, catechist; scrutator scrutineer scrutinizer^†; analyst; quidnunc [Lat.] etc. (curiosity) 455.    ... show more

Dutch: voeldraad, antenne, spriet, voelhoorn, voelspriet
Polish: antena

A tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others.

synonyms: advance, approach, overture.

Sensitivity similar to that of a receptor organ.

synonym: antenna.

Slender tactile process on the jaws of a fish.

synonym: barbel.

Dutch: barbeel
Polish: brzana, brzanka