whale 音标拼音: [w'el] [hw'el]
n . 鲸
vi . 捕鲸,猛攻
vt . 使惨败,猛揍
鲸捕鲸,猛攻使惨败,猛揍
whale n 1 :
a very large person ;
impressive in size or qualities [
synonym :
{
giant }, {
hulk }, {
heavyweight }, {
whale }]
2 :
any of the larger cetacean mammals having a streamlined body and breathing through a blowhole on the head v 1 :
hunt for whales 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 ]
121 Moby Thesaurus words for "
whale ":
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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