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Whale

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Noun

1. giant, heavyweight, hulk, whale

a very large person; impressive in size or qualities

2. whale

any of the larger cetacean mammals having a streamlined body and breathing through a blowhole on the head

Verb

3. whale

hunt for whales

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Whale

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nounWord forms: plural whales or whale
1. 
any of the larger cetacean mammals, excluding dolphins, porpoises, and narwhals. They have flippers, a streamlined body, and a horizontally flattened tail and breathe through a blowhole on the top of the head
▶ Related adjective: cetacean
2. 
any cetacean mammal
See also toothed whale, whalebone whale
3. slang
a gambler who has the capacity to win and lose large sums of money in a casino
4.  a whale of a
verb
(transitive)
to beat or thrash soundly

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Whale

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nounWord forms: plural whales or whale
1. 
any member of either of two orders (Mysticeta and Odontoceta) of aquatic mammals that breathe air, bear live young, and have front limbs that have been modified into flippers, and a flat, horizontal tail
see also whalebone whale, toothed whale
2. 
any of the larger members of these two groups, excluding the porpoises and dolphins (except for the killer whale)
verb intransitiveWord forms: whaled or ˈwhaling
3. 
to engage in the work of hunting whales
verb transitiveWord forms: whaled or ˈwhaling
Informal
to beat; whip; thrash

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Whale

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n.
1.
a. Any of various marine mammals of the order Cetacea; a cetacean.
b. Any of various larger members of this order, including the blue whale, humpback whale, and right whale, in contrast to the porpoises and dolphins.
2. Informal An impressive example: a whale of a story.
intr.v. whaled, whal·ing, whales
To engage in the hunting of whales.
v. whaled, whal·ing, whales
v.tr.
1. To strike or hit repeatedly and forcefully; thrash.
2. To strike or hit (a ball) with great force.
v.intr.
1. To strike or hit a person or thing repeatedly and forcefully: whaled away at the plaster wall with a mallet.
2. To swing at a ball with great effort, especially repeatedly.
3. To attack vehemently: The poet whaled away at the critics.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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