wisp
IPA: wˈɪsp
noun
- A small bundle, as of straw or other like substance; any slender, flexible structure or group.
- A whisk, or small broom.
- A will o' the wisp, or ignis fatuus.
- An immeasurable, indefinable essence of life; soul.
- (archaic) A flock of snipe.
- (uncountable) A disease affecting the feet of cattle.
- Acronym of wireless internet service provider. (wireless ISP)
verb
- (transitive) To brush or dress, as with a wisp.
- (UK, dialect, obsolete) To rumple.
- (intransitive) To produce a wisp, as of smoke.
- (transitive) To emit in wisps.
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Examples of "wisp" in Sentences
- They are not listed in the 'wisp' page.
- The wisp then feeds on the energy generated.
- Same as with the pic on the ill o' the wisp page.
- The chip then self destructs with a wisp of smoke.
- The bouquet is reduced to a mere wisp held by a child.
- Mboitata is the same phenomenon as the ill o' the wisp.
- Brahms even described the stormy scherzo as a little wisp of a scherzo.
- A flock of snipe is called a wisp, although you usually flush them in singles and pairs.
- The malarial pigment lies apart from the parasitic mass and is connected to it by only a wisp of cytoplasm.
- Self-evidence is often a mere will-o'-the-wisp, which is sure to lead us astray if we take it as our guide.
- In olden days, it was personified as "Will with the wisp," a sprite who carried a fleeting "wisp" of light.
- You don’t see that subverting all the hard earned rights of americans, to protect against a will o the wisp is clearly unpatriotic?
- One such will o' the wisp was the claim in various Scottish media that the billionaire might join an investment group in refurbishing Lews Castle as a luxury hotel.
- Another assumption about the Levy on Capital that seems to me to be the merest will o 'the wisp is the delusion that the whole saving that it would entail by reducing the debt charge would necessarily and certainly go to the relief of income tax.
- And finally we see the spirit -- delicate, ethereal, a "faint ochre-colored cloud", a "thin wisp", "motes of dust dancing in the narrow beams of the robot's gaze" -- put into the robot/car, merged with it and transforming it into a deeply strange fusion of robot, automobile and rock.
- The old feudal lords would swear by the Almighty Father, or the Son, or Holy Ghost, or by everything sacred on earth, and break their oaths as they would break a wisp of straw: but if you could get one of them to swear by the Three Kings of Cologne, he was fast; for that oath he dare not disregard.
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