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whale 音標拼音: [w'el] [hw'el] n. 鯨
vi. 捕鯨,猛攻
vt. 使慘敗,猛揍 鯨捕鯨,猛攻使慘敗,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 whalesWhale \ 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, whopperWhale 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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