Etymology: [ hwA(&)l, wA(&)l ] (noun.) before 12th century. Middle English, from Old English hwæl, from Proto-Germanic *hwalaz (compare German Wal, Danish hval), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kʷálos 'sheatfish' (compare German Wels, Latin squalus (“big sea fish”), Old Prussian kalis, Ancient Greek ... (áspalos), Avestan ... (kara, “kind of fish”)).
balina, Kumarhanelerde büyük oynayan, ortaya büyük miktarlar süren kumarbaz, out kuvvetli bir şekilde vurarak çıkarmak: She was whaling the dust out of the, sert davranmak, balina avlamak, pataklamak, kuvvetli bir şekilde vurmak, balina (takımyıldızı), kamçılamak, f., k.dili, dövmek, (isim) balina, (çoğ. --s/whale) (Zooloji) balina, balina avlama, koskocaman, çok, sopa atma, kötek, dayak, balina avında kullanılan, (isim) balina avcılığı, balina avlama, dayak, kötek, sopa atma, kocaman, balina av,
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Kumarhanelerde büyük oynayan, ortaya büyük miktarlar süren kumarbaz
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out kuvvetli bir şekilde vurarak çıkarmak: She was whaling the dust out of the
a person who routinely bets at the maximum limit allowable, To hunt for whales, To flog, to beat, Something, or someone, that is very large, Any of several species of large sea mammals, A high roller, also referred to as a whale in the casino industry, is a gambler who wagers large amounts of money. Because of potential windfall these high sums can bring to the casinos, high rollers often receive increasingly lavish perks from casinos to lure them onto their gambling floors, such as free private jet transfers, limousine use and be allowed to stay in the casinos best suite, If you say that someone is having a whale of a time, you mean that they are enjoying themselves very much. I had a whale of a time in Birmingham. To attack vehemently: The poet whaled away at the critics. whale into/on sb/sth to start hitting someone or something. Any of dozens of species of exclusively aquatic mammals found in oceans, seas, rivers, and estuaries worldwide but especially numerous in the Antarctic Ocean. Whales are commonly distinguished from the smaller porpoises and dolphins and sometimes from narwhals, but they are all cetaceans. See also baleen whale; toothed whale. white whale baleen whale blue whale fin whale razorback whale finback whale humpback whale killer whale pilot whale right whale sei whale sperm whale toothed whale whale shark Whales Bay of International Whaling Commission, Whales are very large mammals that live in the sea. see also killer whale, sperm whale, a very large person; impressive in size or qualities, very large sea mammal with an air spout on the top of the head, hunt whales; thrash, hit repeatedly; attack with criticism, any of the larger cetacean mammals having a streamlined body and breathing through a blowhole on the head, hunt for whales, to hit or beat, as in: In times past, a teacher might threaten to whale an unruly student, 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), la ballena; blue whale, la ballena azul, Whales are hunted chiefly for their oil and baleen, or whalebone, any of the larger cetacean mammals having a streamlined body and breathing through a blowhole on the head hunt for whales, Any aquatic mammal of the order Cetacea, especially any one of the large species, some of which become nearly one hundred feet long, = an aquatic mammal, not a fish, The practice of hunting whales, The practice of spotting whales, A beating, Present participle of whale, An inlet of the Ross Sea in the Ross Ice Shelf of Antarctica. It has been used as a base for Antarctic expeditions since 1911, past of whale, plural of whale, third-person singular of whale, whale hunting, harpooning, Whaling is the activity of hunting and killing whales. a ban on commercial whaling. the whaling industry. the activity of hunting whales. Hunting of whales for food, oil, or both. Whaling dates to prehistoric times, when Arctic peoples used stone tools to hunt whales. They used the entire animal, a feat not accomplished by Western commercial whalers until the advent of floating factories in the 20th century. The Basque were the first Europeans to hunt whales commercially; when seaworthy oceangoing vessels began to be made, they took to the open seas (14th-16th century). They were followed by the Dutch and the Germans in the 17th century and the British and their colonists in the 18th century. In 1712 the first sperm whale was killed; its oil proved more valuable than that of the right whale, which had hitherto been the object of whaling ventures. Whaling expeditions in pursuit of the free-ranging sperm whale could last for four years. The discovery of petroleum (1859), overfishing, the use of vegetable oil, and the substitution of steel for whalebones in corsets led to a steep decline in whaling in the later 19th century, but Norwegian innovations made hunting the hitherto "wrong" whales (rorquals, including the blue whale and the sei whale; so called because they sank when killed) commercially feasible, and the number of whales killed rose from under 2,000 to over 20,000 between 1900 and 1911. The Norwegians and the British dominated whaling into the mid 20th century, when overfishing again made it unprofitable for most nations, though not Japan and the Soviet Union, which became the chief whaling nations. Concern over the near extinction of many species led to the establishment in 1946 of the International Whaling Commission. Commercial whaling was prohibited altogether in 1986, but several nations refused to comply. At the beginning of the 21st century, Norway and Japan continued to hunt hundreds of nonendangered whales annually, The hunting of whales, Pertaining to, or employed in, the pursuit of whales; as, a whaling voyage; a whaling vessel,
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a person who routinely bets at the maximum limit allowable - "The high roller who had the most ferocious reputation for trying to run the business of the casinos where he played, before he died on December 26, 2006, was Kerry Packer. In the casino world, Packer was the Prince of Whales."
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To hunt for whales
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To flog, to beat
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Something, or someone, that is very large - "But when it comes to his business life and business career, Will Clayton is not as other men; he is such a whale of a lot better that it suggests a qualitative as well as a quantitative difference."
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Any of several species of large sea mammals
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A high roller, also referred to as a whale in the casino industry, is a gambler who wagers large amounts of money. Because of potential windfall these high sums can bring to the casinos, high rollers often receive increasingly lavish perks from casinos to lure them onto their gambling floors, such as free private jet transfers, limousine use and be allowed to stay in the casinos best suite
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If you say that someone is having a whale of a time, you mean that they are enjoying themselves very much. I had a whale of a time in Birmingham. To attack vehemently: The poet whaled away at the critics. whale into/on sb/sth to start hitting someone or something. Any of dozens of species of exclusively aquatic mammals found in oceans, seas, rivers, and estuaries worldwide but especially numerous in the Antarctic Ocean. Whales are commonly distinguished from the smaller porpoises and dolphins and sometimes from narwhals, but they are all cetaceans. See also baleen whale; toothed whale. white whale baleen whale blue whale fin whale razorback whale finback whale humpback whale killer whale pilot whale right whale sei whale sperm whale toothed whale whale shark Whales Bay of International Whaling Commission
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Whales are very large mammals that live in the sea. see also killer whale, sperm whale
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a very large person; impressive in size or qualities
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very large sea mammal with an air spout on the top of the head isim
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hunt whales; thrash, hit repeatedly; attack with criticism fiil
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any of the larger cetacean mammals having a streamlined body and breathing through a blowhole on the head
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hunt for whales
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to hit or beat, as in: In times past, a teacher might threaten to whale an unruly student
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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)
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la ballena; blue whale, la ballena azul
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Whales are hunted chiefly for their oil and baleen, or whalebone
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any of the larger cetacean mammals having a streamlined body and breathing through a blowhole on the head hunt for whales
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Any aquatic mammal of the order Cetacea, especially any one of the large species, some of which become nearly one hundred feet long
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= an aquatic mammal, not a fish
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The practice of hunting whales
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The practice of spotting whales
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A beating
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Present participle of whale
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An inlet of the Ross Sea in the Ross Ice Shelf of Antarctica. It has been used as a base for Antarctic expeditions since 1911
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past of whale
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whales
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third-person singular of whale
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whale hunting, harpooning isim
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Whaling is the activity of hunting and killing whales. a ban on commercial whaling. the whaling industry. the activity of hunting whales. Hunting of whales for food, oil, or both. Whaling dates to prehistoric times, when Arctic peoples used stone tools to hunt whales. They used the entire animal, a feat not accomplished by Western commercial whalers until the advent of floating factories in the 20th century. The Basque were the first Europeans to hunt whales commercially; when seaworthy oceangoing vessels began to be made, they took to the open seas (14th-16th century). They were followed by the Dutch and the Germans in the 17th century and the British and their colonists in the 18th century. In 1712 the first sperm whale was killed; its oil proved more valuable than that of the right whale, which had hitherto been the object of whaling ventures. Whaling expeditions in pursuit of the free-ranging sperm whale could last for four years. The discovery of petroleum (1859), overfishing, the use of vegetable oil, and the substitution of steel for whalebones in corsets led to a steep decline in whaling in the later 19th century, but Norwegian innovations made hunting the hitherto "wrong" whales (rorquals, including the blue whale and the sei whale; so called because they sank when killed) commercially feasible, and the number of whales killed rose from under 2,000 to over 20,000 between 1900 and 1911. The Norwegians and the British dominated whaling into the mid 20th century, when overfishing again made it unprofitable for most nations, though not Japan and the Soviet Union, which became the chief whaling nations. Concern over the near extinction of many species led to the establishment in 1946 of the International Whaling Commission. Commercial whaling was prohibited altogether in 1986, but several nations refused to comply. At the beginning of the 21st century, Norway and Japan continued to hunt hundreds of nonendangered whales annually
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The hunting of whales
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Pertaining to, or employed in, the pursuit of whales; as, a whaling voyage; a whaling vessel
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