Tentacle
noun
A long thin part of the body of a sea creature, usually used for feeling things, holding onto things, or moving.
An octopus has eight tentacles.
Often appears as...
- octopus tentacles
- squid tentacles
noun
A part or influence that spreads out and reaches many places.
The tentacles of the city's transportation system reach into all of its outer suburbs.
Often appears as...
- tentacles of corruption
- tentacles of influence
noun
A long thin part of the body of a sea creature, usually used for feeling things, holding onto things, or moving.
An octopus has eight tentacles.
Often appears as...
- octopus tentacles
- squid tentacles
noun
A part or influence that spreads out and reaches many places.
The tentacles of the city's transportation system reach into all of its outer suburbs.
Often appears as...
- tentacles of corruption
- tentacles of influence
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Pro Tip 1/3Aquatic Imagery
Often associated with marine life, gives strong visual of underwater creatures.
Her dress had patterns that flowed like the tentacles of a jellyfish in water.
Pro Tip 2/3Sensory Function
Emphasize how sea creatures use tentacles for touch and environmental interaction.
The cuttlefish uses its tentacles to explore the ocean floor.
Pro Tip 3/3Gripping Ability
Highlight how tentacles can grab or hold objects, often with suction cups.
The tentacles gripped the fish firmly, leaving no chance for escape.
Pro Tip 1/3Aquatic Imagery
Often associated with marine life, gives strong visual of underwater creatures.
Her dress had patterns that flowed like the tentacles of a jellyfish in water.
Pro Tip 2/3Sensory Function
Emphasize how sea creatures use tentacles for touch and environmental interaction.
The cuttlefish uses its tentacles to explore the ocean floor.
Pro Tip 3/3Gripping Ability
Highlight how tentacles can grab or hold objects, often with suction cups.
The tentacles gripped the fish firmly, leaving no chance for escape.
Pro Tip 1/3Aquatic Imagery
Often associated with marine life, gives strong visual of underwater creatures.
Her dress had patterns that flowed like the tentacles of a jellyfish in water.
Pro Tip 2/3Sensory Function
Emphasize how sea creatures use tentacles for touch and environmental interaction.
The cuttlefish uses its tentacles to explore the ocean floor.
Pro Tip 3/3Gripping Ability
Highlight how tentacles can grab or hold objects, often with suction cups.
The tentacles gripped the fish firmly, leaving no chance for escape.
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Seven Superpowered...
keel on their ankle helps to reduce drag letting them cut right through the water something else that helps the shark reduce drag are its dermal tentacles which basically translates to skin teeth now all sharks have these type of scales but the placement and shape of these dermal denticles on the mako shark really helps streamline the water across their body helping them zip right
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Beyond the edge of the...
videos that I can't tell you what that thing is for instance so we haven't now the ability to access the deep sea we can take beautiful pictures the cameras now that we have can zoom in and look at tentacles and tentacles of tentacles and see details at my eyes can see so it's a spectacular world it's a chance to
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Deep ocean mysteries and...
We're trying to get an expedition together to go look at this and maybe in a year we'll have that. Go online and look. Vampyroteuthis infernalis. The vampire squid. Incredibly cool. In the darkness of the deep sea, he's got glowing tentacles, so if I'm coming at you like him, I put my arms out in the darkness
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Fish With Transparent...
into them they believe the barreleye swims into the tentacles and steals the food from the siphonophore the shield over its eyes protects them from the stinging cells of the siphonophore tentacles the barreleye can also rotate its eyes to avoid predators or avoid being captured by scientists
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How does a jellyfish...
for protection and prey capture. Even baby jellyfish, the size of a pencil eraser, have the ability to sting. Larval jellyfish, ephyrae, look like tiny flowers pulsating in the sea. As they grow, they become umbrella-shaped with a bell at the top and descending tentacles around the margin.
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Never, ever give up PIPE...
And then there are the crises. Of course there are. And the vomiting starts, the seawater -- you're not well. You're wearing a jellyfish mask for the ultimate protection. It's difficult to swim in. It's causing abrasions on the inside of the mouth, but the tentacles can't get you.
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"Dumbo," Other Deep-Sea...
the starfish that uses 15 tentacles to sweep the oceans to trite us into its mouth at the end of its meal it changes shape and flies off to find another nutritious mud bath by the time the census of marine life wraps up its mission next fall the five deep-sea
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Why the octopus brain is...
The other 60% are in the tentacles, which for humans would be like our arms having minds of their own. This is where things get even more interesting. Vertebrates like us have a rigid skeleton to support our bodies, with joints that allow us to move.
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What's Hiding in the...
although specimens have been brought to the surface it's only been seen alive through the windows of deep sea craft like this it uses a pair of long retractable tentacles to catch fish
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The Deadly Portuguese...
fish or in rare cases a human but among its lethal tentacles lurks a
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Seven Superpowered...
keel on their ankle helps to reduce drag letting them cut right through the water something else that helps the shark reduce drag are its dermal tentacles which basically translates to skin teeth now all sharks have these type of scales but the placement and shape of these dermal denticles on the mako shark really helps streamline the water across their body helping them zip right
Video examples
Beyond the edge of the...
videos that I can't tell you what that thing is for instance so we haven't now the ability to access the deep sea we can take beautiful pictures the cameras now that we have can zoom in and look at tentacles and tentacles of tentacles and see details at my eyes can see so it's a spectacular world it's a chance to
Video examples
Deep ocean mysteries and...
We're trying to get an expedition together to go look at this and maybe in a year we'll have that. Go online and look. Vampyroteuthis infernalis. The vampire squid. Incredibly cool. In the darkness of the deep sea, he's got glowing tentacles, so if I'm coming at you like him, I put my arms out in the darkness
Video examples
Fish With Transparent...
into them they believe the barreleye swims into the tentacles and steals the food from the siphonophore the shield over its eyes protects them from the stinging cells of the siphonophore tentacles the barreleye can also rotate its eyes to avoid predators or avoid being captured by scientists
Video examples
How does a jellyfish...
for protection and prey capture. Even baby jellyfish, the size of a pencil eraser, have the ability to sting. Larval jellyfish, ephyrae, look like tiny flowers pulsating in the sea. As they grow, they become umbrella-shaped with a bell at the top and descending tentacles around the margin.
Video examples
Never, ever give up PIPE...
And then there are the crises. Of course there are. And the vomiting starts, the seawater -- you're not well. You're wearing a jellyfish mask for the ultimate protection. It's difficult to swim in. It's causing abrasions on the inside of the mouth, but the tentacles can't get you.
Video examples
"Dumbo," Other Deep-Sea...
the starfish that uses 15 tentacles to sweep the oceans to trite us into its mouth at the end of its meal it changes shape and flies off to find another nutritious mud bath by the time the census of marine life wraps up its mission next fall the five deep-sea
Video examples
Why the octopus brain is...
The other 60% are in the tentacles, which for humans would be like our arms having minds of their own. This is where things get even more interesting. Vertebrates like us have a rigid skeleton to support our bodies, with joints that allow us to move.
Video examples
What's Hiding in the...
although specimens have been brought to the surface it's only been seen alive through the windows of deep sea craft like this it uses a pair of long retractable tentacles to catch fish
Video examples
The Deadly Portuguese...
fish or in rare cases a human but among its lethal tentacles lurks a
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Brad Feld
American Businessman
My initial desire to blog came from something that's always been my approach to investing - I'm a nerd, and I love to play with the technology, and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level.
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Joel Edgerton
Australian Actor
To act with a tennis ball and imagine it's a tentacle, or if you're in some kind of wilderness film and you go, 'Okay, we can't have a grizzly bear here, but imagine when you step over the rock there there's a grizzly bear.' I don't know. They're tough moments.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
American Politician
From lying about climate change, to undermining programs that make up our social safety net, to opposing laws that reduce gun violence, to fighting marriage equality, the Kochs' tentacles infiltrate all parts of America's public debates.
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David Grann
American Journalist
The giant squid is the perfect embodiment of a sea monster: it is huge, it has tentacles, it has big eyes, and it is absolutely frightening-looking. But, most important, it is real. Unlike the Loch Ness monster, we know it's out there.
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Gary Cole
American Actor
Even people who aren't engaged on the actual battlefield - the effects of war reach out like tentacles into families, into economies, into the changing geography, into politics. It shakes up everything.
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Selma Blair
American Actress
I don't like slugs and tentacles and calamari or anything. Actually, tentacles made me turn into a vegetarian in high school. I'm not anymore, but in high school, we were dissecting squid.
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Steve Backshall
I have deliberately stung myself with a small section of box jelly tentacle, and it felt like being burned by a steam iron. Larger stings can lead to cardiac arrest, and mind-blowing pain.
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Monica Crowley
American Journalist
Once the tentacles of redistributionism wrap themselves tightly around every part of the economy - and around our psyches - they can never be unwound.
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Marsha Blackburn
American Politician
We've already seen the federal government stretch their regulatory tentacles into our homes and determine what kind of light bulbs we have to use.
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Matt Lanter
American Actor
There are so many possibilities of life out there that an alien doesn't have to have green, long tentacles. They can be very similar to us.
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Brad Feld
American Businessman
My initial desire to blog came from something that's always been my approach to investing - I'm a nerd, and I love to play with the technology, and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level.
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Joel Edgerton
Australian Actor
To act with a tennis ball and imagine it's a tentacle, or if you're in some kind of wilderness film and you go, 'Okay, we can't have a grizzly bear here, but imagine when you step over the rock there there's a grizzly bear.' I don't know. They're tough moments.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
American Politician
From lying about climate change, to undermining programs that make up our social safety net, to opposing laws that reduce gun violence, to fighting marriage equality, the Kochs' tentacles infiltrate all parts of America's public debates.
Quote examples
David Grann
American Journalist
The giant squid is the perfect embodiment of a sea monster: it is huge, it has tentacles, it has big eyes, and it is absolutely frightening-looking. But, most important, it is real. Unlike the Loch Ness monster, we know it's out there.
Quote examples
Gary Cole
American Actor
Even people who aren't engaged on the actual battlefield - the effects of war reach out like tentacles into families, into economies, into the changing geography, into politics. It shakes up everything.
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Selma Blair
American Actress
I don't like slugs and tentacles and calamari or anything. Actually, tentacles made me turn into a vegetarian in high school. I'm not anymore, but in high school, we were dissecting squid.
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Steve Backshall
I have deliberately stung myself with a small section of box jelly tentacle, and it felt like being burned by a steam iron. Larger stings can lead to cardiac arrest, and mind-blowing pain.
Quote examples
Monica Crowley
American Journalist
Once the tentacles of redistributionism wrap themselves tightly around every part of the economy - and around our psyches - they can never be unwound.
Quote examples
Marsha Blackburn
American Politician
We've already seen the federal government stretch their regulatory tentacles into our homes and determine what kind of light bulbs we have to use.
Quote examples
Matt Lanter
American Actor
There are so many possibilities of life out there that an alien doesn't have to have green, long tentacles. They can be very similar to us.
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