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Image:Humpback Whale fg1.jpg|thumb|right|A humpback whale.

English

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old English hƿæl, hwæl.

Pronunciation

  • , IPA: /weɪl/,
  • An audio transcript can be found at en-us-whale.ogg

Homophones


Noun

  1. Any of several species of large sea mammals


Related terms

Translations

See also


Verb

{{en-verb|whales|whaling|whaled|whaled}}

  1. To hunt for whales.
  2. To flog, to beat.


Category:English homophones Category:Mammals

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Whale \Whale\, n. [OE. whal, AS. hw[ae]l; akin to D. walvisch,
G. wal, walfisch, OHG. wal, Icel. hvalr, Dan. & Sw. hval,
hvalfisk. Cf. Narwhal, Walrus.] (Zool.)
Any aquatic mammal of the order Cetacea, especially any one
of the large species, some of which become nearly one hundred
feet long. Whales are hunted chiefly for their oil and
baleen, or whalebone.
[1913 Webster]

Note: The existing whales are divided into two groups: the
toothed whales (Odontocete), including those that
have teeth, as the cachalot, or sperm whale (see {Sperm
whale}); and the baleen, or whalebone, whales
(Mysticete), comprising those that are destitute of
teeth, but have plates of baleen hanging from the upper
jaw, as the right whales. The most important species of
whalebone whales are the bowhead, or Greenland, whale
(see Illust. of Right whale), the Biscay whale, the
Antarctic whale, the gray whale (see under Gray), the
humpback, the finback, and the rorqual.
[1913 Webster]

Whale bird. (Zool.)
(a) Any one of several species of large Antarctic petrels
which follow whaling vessels, to feed on the blubber and
floating oil; especially, Prion turtur (called also
blue petrel), and Pseudoprion desolatus.
(b) The turnstone; -- so called because it lives on the
carcasses of whales. [Canada]

Whale fin (Com.), whalebone. --Simmonds.

Whale fishery, the fishing for, or occupation of taking,
whales.

Whale louse (Zool.), any one of several species of degraded
amphipod crustaceans belonging to the genus Cyamus,
especially Cyamus ceti. They are parasitic on various
cetaceans.

Whale's bone, ivory. [Obs.]

Whale shark. (Zool.)
(a) The basking, or liver, shark.
(b) A very large harmless shark (Rhinodon typicus) native
of the Indian Ocean. It sometimes becomes sixty feet
long.

Whale shot, the name formerly given to spermaceti.

Whale's tongue (Zool.), a balanoglossus.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet whale
n 1: a very large person; impressive in size or qualities [syn: giant,
hulk, heavyweight]
2: any of the larger cetacean mammals having a streamlined body
and breathing through a blowhole on the head
v : hunt for whales
Moby Dictionary
Loch Ness monster , alevin , angle , bait the hook , baste , bastinado ,
beat , belabor , belt , benthon , benthos , birch , bob , buffet , cane ,
cetacean , clam , club , cowhide , cudgel , cut , dap , dib , dibble ,
dinosaur , dolphin , dress down , drive , drub , elephant , fingerling ,
fish , flagellate , flail , flax , flog , fly-fish , fry , fustigate ,
game fish , gig , give a dressing-down , give a whipping ,
give the stick , go fishing , grig , grilse , guddle , hide , hippo ,
hippopotamus , horsewhip , hulk , jack , jacklight , jig , jumbo , kipper ,
knout , lace , larrup , lash , lather , lay on , leather , leviathan ,
lick , mammoth , man-eater , man-eating shark , marine animal ,
mastodon , minnow , minny , monster , nekton , net , paddle , panfish ,
pistol-whip , plankton , pommel , porpoise , pummel , rawhide , salmon ,
scourge , sea monster , sea pig , sea serpent , sea snake , seine ,
shark , shrimp , smite , smolt , spank , spin , sponge , still-fish ,
strap , stripe , swinge , switch , tan , thrash , thump , thumper , torch ,
trawl , trim , troll , tropical fish , trounce , truncheon , wallop ,
wear out , welt , whip , whop , whopper


Whale The Hebrew word _tan_ (plural, tannin) is so rendered in Job 7:12 (A.V.; but R.V., "sea-monster"). It is rendered by "dragons" in Deut. 32:33; Ps. 91:13; Jer. 51:34; Ps. 74:13 (marg., "whales;" and marg. of R.V., "sea-monsters"); Isa. 27:1; and "serpent" in Ex. 7:9 (R.V. marg., "any large reptile," and so in ver. 10, 12). The words of Job (7:12), uttered in bitter irony, where he asks, "Am I a sea or a whale?" simply mean, "Have I a wild, untamable nature, like the waves of the sea, which must be confined and held within bounds, that they cannot pass?" "The serpent of the sea, which was but the wild, stormy sea itself, wound itself around the land, and threatened to swallow it up...Job inquires if he must be watched and plagued like this monster, lest he throw the world into disorder" (Davidson's Job). The whale tribe are included under the general Hebrew name _tannin_ (Gen. 1:21; Lam. 4:3). "Even the sea-monsters [tanninim] draw out the breast." The whale brings forth its young alive, and suckles them. It is to be noticed of the story of Jonah's being "three days and three nights in the whale's belly," as recorded in Matt. 12:40, that here the Gr. ketos means properly any kind of sea-monster of the shark or the whale tribe, and that in the book of Jonah (1:17) it is only said that "a great fish" was prepared to swallow Jonah. This fish may have been, therefore, some great shark. The white shark is known to frequent the Mediterranean Sea, and is sometimes found 30 feet in length.
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