barb

4 letters in word "barb": A B B R.

No anagrams for barb found in this word list.

Words found within barb:

ab abb ar arb ba bar bra

• Definitions:
• (Also called feather.) A means of representing wind speed in the plotting of a synoptic chart; it is a short straight line drawn obliquely toward ...
• a kind of spine armed with teeth pointing backwards.
• a sharp backwards extension of a projectile point intended to act as a hook to keep the point within a wound.
• The spur found on the point of most fish hooks.
• the part of the feather that sticks out of the shaft; collectively, a vane The things that look like little hairs growing out of the shaft of a feather are barbs.
• A type of fitting end with a tapered end and a raised edge to grip the tube or hose. A tube or fitting is pushed onto the barb to make a connection. At low pressure, friction is used to hold the tube or hose on the barb. ...
• features extending off from the axis of a filament; the direction in which barbs extend from the axis depends upon the chirality, or handedness, of the filament. High-resolution H-alpha image of chromospheric filaments and barbs, observed 2002 October 30, 14:46 UT (USAF, ISOON image courtesy D. ...
• The nick on the point of a hook. It is intended to keep the hook from backing out of a fish's mouth after it has been hooked.
• Audience Research Board, the body in Britain which produces television viewing figures.
• the sharp point extending backwards on a hook to prevent the release of the hook from the material in which it is embedded.
• The barb is a small part of the bird feather which branches off directly from the central shaft.
• audience measurement body Broadcasters’ Audience Research Board
• The barb is attached to the rachis, ie, these constitute the first branches off the main trunk of the feather. Barbs bear barbules that in turn bear hamuli that latch to the adjacent barb.
• shot: an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect; "his parting shot was `drop dead'"; "she threw shafts of sarcasm"; "she takes a dig at me every chance she gets" the pointed part of barbed wire a subsidiary point facing opposite from the main point that makes an arrowhead or spear hard to remove one of the parallel filaments projecting from the main shaft of a feather provide with barbs; "barbed wire"
• Developed on the Barbary Coast of North Africa, the Barb is a desert horse, with great hardiness and stamina. Due to the amount of cross-breeding, it is difficult to find a pure-bred Barb today. ...
• Barbs are a series of branches fused to the rachis of a feather. The barbs themselves are also branched and form the barbules.
• Barb is a common and generic term for the species of fish within the genus Barbus and the famila Cyprinidae.

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