feeler

1. N-COUNT An insect's feelers are the two thin stalks on its head with which it touches and senses things around it. 觸角[usu pl]

2. N-PLURAL If you put out feelers, you make careful, quiet contacts with people in order to get information from them, or to find out what their reaction will be to a suggestion. 試探性的接觸以獲取所需的信息; 對他人觀點的反應

When vacancies occur, the office puts out feelers to the universities. 職位空缺時，該辦公室的觸角先伸曏大學。