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Definition: Whale |
WhaleNoun1. A very large person; impressive in size or qualities. 2. Any of the larger cetacean mammals having a streamlined body and breathing through a blowhole on the head. Verb1. Hunt for whales. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "whale" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Whale \Whale\, noun. [from Old English expression whal, Anglo-Saxon hw[ae]l; akin to Dutch walvisch, German wal, walfisch, Old High German. wal, Icelandic hvalr, Danish Swedish hval, hvalfisk. Compare to Narwhal, Walrus.]. (references) |
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Bible | 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. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of seeing a whale approaching a ship, denotes that you will have a struggle between duties, and will be threatened with loss of property. If the whale is demolished, you will happily decide between right and inclination, and will encounter pleasing successes. If you see a whale overturn a ship, you will be thrown into a whirlpool of disasters. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Literature | Whale Not a fish, but a cetaceous mammal. A group of whales is called a school. The fat is called blubber. The female is called a cow. The fore-limbs are called paddles. The male is called a bull-whale. The spear used in whale-flashing is called a harpoon. The young of whales is a cub or calf. TOOTHED-WHALES include sperm-whales and dolphins. WHALE-BONE WHALES include rorquals and humpbacks. Whale Very like a whale. Very much like a cock-and-bull story; a fudge. Hamlet chaffs Polonius by comparing a cloud to a camel, and then to a weasel, and when the courtier assents Hamlet adds, "Or like a whale"; to which Polonius answers, "Very like a whale." (Act iii. 2.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Whales are about 80 species of large, exclusively aquatic placental mammals, members of the order Cetacea, which also includes dolphins and porpoises. The term whale is ambiguous: it can refer to all cetaceans, just the largest ones, or only to members of particular families within the order Cetacea which leads to difficulties, as the Killer Whale and the Pilot Whale are members of the family Delphinidae and technically dolphins. The cetaceans are divided into two suborders: Mysticeti - the baleen whales - and Odontoceti - the toothed whales.
A complete up-to-date taxonomical listing of all cetacean species, including all whales is maintained at the Cetacean article.
Many species of whales were hunted nearly to extinction, for their meat, fat (used to make lamp oil), oil and ambergris (from Sperm Whales), a perfume ingredient. International treaties now sharply restrict whaling. Canada, Iceland, Japan and Norway and other countries hunt not endangered whales, while small aboriginal groups in the United States and Pacific island nations hunt endangered whales on a small scale.
Evolution
Like all members of the order, whales evolved from land mammals which returned to the sea, probably in the Eocene, between 55 and 34 million years ago. The precise ancestry of whales is still obscure, as there is no commonly agreed succession, but they are thought to have evolved from a group of carnivorous artiodactyla (even-toed hoofed animals). In 2001, two important 47-million-year-old partial fossils, named Rodhocetus Balochistanensis and Artiocetus clavis, were discovered in Balochistan, Pakistan. These fossils represent intermediate forms between land-living ungulates and whales and are evidence that the whales' closest relatives on land might be hippos, which had been previously suggested by DNA studies.
Characteristics
Like all mammals, whales breathe air into lungs, are warm-blooded (to be precise, endothermic), breast-feed their young, and have some (very little) hair. Whales have two blowholes which they use for breathing. When breathing out after a dive, a "V" shaped spout can be seen from the right perspective. Whale submerge underwater for vast amount of time. Some whales, such as the Sperm Whale, can stay underwater for up to two hours in a single breath. Whales have a four-chambered heart. Baleen, the sieve-like structures which baleen whales use to filter food out of the water, is made from keratin. Whales are broadly classed as predators, but their food ranges from microscopic plankton to very large fish. The male is called a bull; the female, a cow; and the young, a calf.Especially noteworthy is the Blue Whale, the largest animal that has ever lived. It may be up to 30 meters long and weigh 180 tons.
Sonar
Environmentalists have long argued that some cetaceans including whales are endangered by sonar and especially by the very powerful sonar used by the US defense department. British scientists have recently suggested (in the journal Nature) that the sonar is connected to whale beachings and to signs that the beached whales have experienced decompression sickness (see a BBC report about the Nature article or the Nature article itself (requires subscription)). Mass whale beachings do occur naturally amongst many species and in fact the frequency and size of beachings around the world, recorded over the last 1000 years in religious tracts and more recently in scientific surveys, has been used to estimate the changing population size of various whale species, under that assumption that the proportion of the total whale population beaching in any one year is constant. Despite the concerns raised about sonar as mentioned above which may invalidate this assumption, this population estimate technique is still popular today. [1].
Miscellanea
The hunting of whales is the subject of one of the classics of the English language literary canon, Herman Melville's Moby Dick.
See also
- Baleen Whale
- Dorsal fin
- Whaling
- International Whaling Commission
References and external links
- Private communication between Asbjorn Bjorgvinsson, curator of the Husavik Whale Centre and User:Pcb21.
- Cetacea site
- Greenpeace whale site
- Kate Wong: "The Mammals that Conquered the Seas", Scientific American, Vol 286, No 5, May 2002
- Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises by Mark Carwardine, published by Dorling Kindersley, 2000. ISBN 0-7513-2781-6. A very good introductory guide to cetaceans. It is inexpensive yet comprehensive.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Whale."
Synonyms: WhaleSynonyms: giant (n), heavyweight (n), hulk (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Deception | Snare, trap, pitfall, decoy, gin; springe, springle; noose, hoot; bait, decoy-duck, tub to the whale, baited trap, guet-a-pens; cobweb, net, meshes, toils, mouse trap, birdlime; dionaea, Venus's flytrap; ambush; trapdoor, sliding panel, false bottom; spring-net, spring net, spring gun, mask, masked battery; mine; flytrap; green goods; panel house. |
Decoy, waylay, lure, beguile, delude, inveigle; entrap, intrap, ensnare; nick, springe; set a trap, lay a trap, lay a snare for; bait the hook, forelay, spread the toils, lime; trapan, trepan; kidnap; let in, hook in; nousle, nousel; blind a trail; enmesh, immesh; shanghai; catch, catch in a trap; sniggle, entangle, illaqueate, hocus, escamoter, practice on one's credulity; hum, humbug; gammon, stuff up, sell; play a trick upon one, play a practical joke upon one, put something over on one, put one over on; balk, trip up, throw a tub to a whale; fool to the top of one's bent, send on a fool's errand; make game, make a fool of, make an April fool of, make an ass of; trifle with, cajole, flatter; come over; (influence); gild the pill, make things pleasant, divert, put a good face upon; dissemble. | |
Dissimilarity | Nothing of the kind; no such thing, quite another thing; far from it, cast in a different mold, tertium quid, as like a dock as a daisy, "very like a whale "; as different as chalk from cheese, as different as Macedon and Monmouth; lucus a non lucendo. |
Dissuasion | Pretense; (untruth); put off, dust thrown in the eyes; blind; moonshine; mere pretext, shallow pretext; lame excuse, lame apology; tub to a whale; false plea, sour grapes; makeshift, shift, white lie; special pleading; (sophistry); soft sawder; (flattery). |
Fuel | Wax, paraffin wax, paraffin oil; lamp oil, whale oil. |
Size | Giant, Brobdingnagian, Antaeus, Goliath, Gog and Magog, Gargantua, monster, mammoth, Cyclops; cachalot, whale, porpoise, behemoth, leviathan, elephant, hippopotamus; colossus; tun, cord, lump, bulk, block, loaf, mass, swad, clod, nugget, bushel, thumper, whooper, spanker, strapper; "Triton among the minnows". |
Unskillfulness | Sprat sent out to catch a whale, much ado about nothing, wild-goose chase. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Whale |
| English words defined with "whale": baleen whale, Beaked whale, black whale, blue whale, Bone whale, bottlenose whale, bottle-nosed whale, bowhead whale ♦ dwarf sperm whale ♦ fin whale, finback whale ♦ gray whale, Greenland whale ♦ humpback whale ♦ killer whale ♦ Polar whale, Pygmy right whale, Pygmy sperm whale ♦ right whale ♦ Scrag whale, sei whale, sperm whale ♦ toothed whale ♦ whale oil, whale shark, whalebone whale, white whale. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "whale": BLUBBER, BLUBBER CHEEKS ♦ crude sperm oil ♦ dulite-machine bluer ♦ HEAT-TREATING BLUER ♦ JONAH, Jonah and the Whale ♦ leviathan ♦ Misnomers ♦ Pistris, Pistrix, Pristis ♦ Rythmic Identity MEasurement ♦ whalesong. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "whale": Walrus. (references) |
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Screenplays | I'm going to whale on my pecs and then do my back (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball) She's a whale! (There's Something About Mary; writing credit: Ed Decter; John J. Strauss) I wish I could speak whale. (Finding Nemo; writing credit: Andrew Stanton) Then what's that sport where the chicks whale on each other (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) They do whale song (Eddie Izzard: Circle; writing credit: Eddie Izzard) | |
Lyrics | Hop in my Chrysler, it's as big as a whale and it's about to set sail (Love Shack; performing artist: B-52'S) I got me a car, it's as big as a whale and we're headin' on down (Love Shack; performing artist: B-52'S) There's a blue whale beached by a springtime's ebb (King Of Pain; performing artist: The Police) | |
Movie/TV Titles | In Search of the Bowhead Whale (1974) The Whale Hunters of Fayal (1969) Whale of a Story (1962) The Pink Whale Dopey Dick (1957) Whale Hunt (1952) | |
Song Titles | Sing A Whale Song (performing artist: Tom Chapin) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Aerial view of a gray whale - Eschrichtius robustus. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals). |  | Splash as humpback - Megaptera novaeangliae - hits the water after breaching. This picture won the whale cannonball contest. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals). |
 | Hauling gear on a whale bone sled. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Sperm whale surfacing in the Gulf of Mexico. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Whale sculptures grace the fountain at the Birch Aquarium. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | The Whale Museum. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Killer whale cruising the pack ice looking for seals. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Killer whale study. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | A fin whale - Balaenoptera physalus -on the Bay of Biscay. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Recreational fishing fleet beyond a sign advertising whale watching at Point Judith. Credit: Fisheries. |
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| "Killer Whale" by William J. Ray Commentary: "This guy swam right under our Zodiac whale-watching boat in the San Juan Straits of Vancouver." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
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 | Ultrasonic sperm whale communication. | | Underwater whale communication. |
| Killer whale communication. | ||
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Edmund Burke | Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe. |
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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | He might whale you if you go near him. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | However, now and then they take a whale that happens to be dashed against the rocks, which the common people feed on heartily |
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Trade | Korea | On its negative export list, Korea also prohibits the export of 13 items by Harmonized System 6 digit classification, including whale meat, uncut pieces of stone (granite, etc), and dog fur or skin products. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | LEVIATHAN, n. An enormous aquatic animal mentioned by Job. Some suppose it to have been the whale, but that distinguished ichthyologer, Dr. Jordan, of Stanford University, maintains with considerable heat that it was a species of gigantic Tadpole (Thaddeus Polandensis) or Polliwig -- Maria pseudo-hirsuta. For an exhaustive description and history of the Tadpole consult the famous monograph of Jane Potter, Thaddeus of Warsaw. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Whale" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 91.77% of the time. "Whale" is used about 497 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 91.77% | 457 | 12,810 |
| Noun (proper) | 8.03% | 40 | 54,274 |
| Noun (common) | 0.2% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 497 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "whale": a whale at ♦ a whale of ♦ a whale of a ♦ a whale of a fellow ♦ a whale of a lot ♦ a whale of a story! ♦ a whale of a trout ♦ baleen whale ♦ be a whale at ♦ be a whale for ♦ be a whale on ♦ Beaked whale ♦ black whale ♦ blue whale ♦ Bone whale ♦ bottlenose whale ♦ bowhead whale ♦ bull whale ♦ cow whale ♦ dwarf sperm whale ♦ fin whale ♦ finback whale ♦ gray whale ♦ greenland whale ♦ have a whale of time ♦ humpback whale ♦ humpbacked whale ♦ Jupiter whale ♦ killer whale ♦ minke whale ♦ Pike whale ♦ piked whale ♦ pilot whale ♦ polar whale ♦ pygmy right whale ♦ pygmy sperm whale ♦ right whale ♦ scrag whale ♦ sei whale ♦ social whale ♦ sperm whale ♦ spermaceti whale ♦ sprat sent out to catch a whale ♦ sulphur whale ♦ the Denticete including the dolphins and sperm whale which have teeth Another suborder Zeuglodontia is extinct The Sirenia were formerly included in the Cetacea but are now made a separate order ♦ Thrasher whale ♦ throw a sprat to catch a whale ♦ toothed whale ♦ unicorn whale ♦ whale bird ♦ whale boat ♦ whale bone ♦ whale calf ♦ whale catcher ♦ whale fin ♦ whale fishery ♦ whale louse ♦ whale oil ♦ Whale Pass ♦ whale shark ♦ whale shot ♦ whalebone whale ♦ white whale. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "whale": whale-back, whale-backed, whale-bone, whale-eaters, whale-fin, whale-hunt, whale-hunters, whale-hunting, whale-like, whale-linked, whale-man, whale-meat, whale-ribbed, whale-shaped, whale-watching. | |
Ending with "whale": sperm-whale. | |
Containing "whale": Sperm-whale porpoise. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
whale | 5,985 | beluga whale | 283 |
whale watching | 3,694 | sperm whale | 282 |
killer whale | 3,631 | killer whale picture | 252 |
whale watching baja | 2,399 | whale gift | 235 |
humpback whale | 2,267 | blue whale picture | 160 |
alaska whale watching | 1,872 | tour whale watching | 159 |
whale watching trip | 1,310 | jonah and the whale | 145 |
blue whale | 1,118 | whale toy | 136 |
whale figurine | 1,114 | penis whale | 111 |
the whale rider | 788 | dolphin whale | 101 |
orca whale | 572 | exploding whale | 91 |
whale t shirt | 514 | gray whale | 91 |
stuffed whale | 484 | johnson whale | 86 |
whale watch | 452 | whale watching mexico | 84 |
whale of a tale | 447 | whale rider movie | 83 |
webquests whale | 433 | right whale | 78 |
whale watching hawaii | 420 | save the whale | 72 |
whale picture | 407 | whale sound | 72 |
whale shark | 385 | humpback whale picture | 70 |
whale watching cruise | 381 | killer whale photo | 66 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "whale"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | walvis. (various references) | |
Albanian | gjuaj balena, balenë (rorqual). (various references) | |
Arabic | حوت, ضرب بعنف (bang, bash, baste, lambaste, maul, slam, smite, swat, swipe, thump, whack), إصطاد الحيتان, شىء ضخم (bumper, immensity). (various references) | |
Basque | balea. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ходя на лов за китове, шибам (beat, cut, drive, flog, lash, scourge, slash, swinge, switch), кит (mastic, paste), нещо огромно (sockdolager), напердашвам (clobber, dress down, lace, lambaste, larrup, lather, paddle, pepper, skin, thrash), бия (bang, beat, chime, club, curry, feeze, go, hammer, hide, hit, kill, knoll, lace, lather, lay, lick, maul, palpitate, peal, pelt, pulsate, pulse, ram, ramrod, ring, rough up, shoot, strike, swingle, thrash, thresh, wallop, welt, whip, whop, zap). (various references) | |
Catalan | balena. (various references) | |
Chinese | 鲸鱼 (whales), 鯨魚 , 鯨 . (various references) | |
Cornish | mórvyl. (various references) | |
Czech | velryba (cachalot, finback, killer whale). (various references) | |
Danish | hval. (various references) | |
Dutch | walvis. (various references) | |
Esperanto | baleno. (various references) | |
Faeroese | hvalur. (various references) | |
Farsi | نهنگ صیدکردن , نهنگ (Alligator), قیطس , وال (Voile), عظیم الجثه (Gargantuan, Monster). (various references) | |
Finnish | valas. (various references) | |
French | baleine. (various references) | |
Frisian | walfisk. (various references) | |
German | Wal, Walfisch. (various references) | |
Greek | φάλαινα (common finback, common rorqual, fin whale, finner, herring whale, razorback). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לויתן (leviathan, rorqual). (various references) | |
Hungarian | bálna. (various references) | |
Icelandic | hvalur. (various references) | |
Indonesian | ikan paus. (various references) | |
Inuktitut | arviq. (various references) | |
Italian | balena. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 鯨 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | くじらざ (Cetus), くじら. (various references) | |
Korean | 고래 (whales). (various references) | |
Manx | shelg yn vuc varrey, muc varrey (porpoise, rorqual), meeyl mooar. (various references) | |
Maori | tohoraa. (various references) | |
Mohawk | ohswakaront. (various references) | |
Norwegian | hval. (various references) | |
Occitan | balena. (various references) | |
Papiamen | bayena. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | alewhay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | baleia (cow), cetáceo (cetacean, cetaceous). (various references) | |
Romanian | vâna balene, lucru mare sau impresionant, cetaceu (cetacean), balenã. (various references) | |
Russian | кит китовый, кит, масса (army, array, bulk, congeries, crowd, handful, heap, heaps of, lashings, lot of, lots, lots of, lotsa, mass, mountain, multitude, passel, paste, ream, regiment, ruck, stock, stuff, the million, wealth of, weight, wilderness). (various references) | |
Scottish | carr (the flesh of the seal and whale). (various references) | |
Sepedi | mosegwaohloga. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kit (finback), izvrstan primer. (various references) | |
Sicilian | balena. (various references) | |
Spanish | ballena (baleen, bone, busk, steel, whalebone). (various references) | |
Swazi | úm-khôma. (various references) | |
Swedish | val (cetacean, choice, election, option, pick, return, selection, voting), valfisk. (various references) | |
Thai | ปลาวาฬเพชรฆาต (killer whale). (various references) | |
Turkish | sert davranmak (knock about, knock around, treat harsly), pataklamak (beat, beat up, belabor, belabour, flail, give smb. a whacking, give smb. the works, hide, knock galley-west, lace into, lambaste, lay into, whop, work over), dövmek (bash up, baste, batter, beat, beat out, beat up, belabor, belabour, Bray, bruise, cane, castigate, chastise, club, cudgel, drub, dust smb.'s jacket, flail, flog, forge, give a beating, give smb. a thrashing, give the stick, hammer, hide, knock about, knock around, Lam, lam into, lambaste, larrup, lather, lay in, lay into, lick, Mall, maul, pelt, pound, punish, scutch, slog, sock, spifflicate, spiflicate, swage, swinge, tan, thrash, thwack, trounce, wallop, whip, whop), balina avlamak, balina, balína. (various references) | |
Turkmen | kit (r). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | кит, знавець (adept, cognoscenti, connoisseur, dabster, expert, proficient, sharp). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | việc lạ lùng kỳ dị một tay cừ về cái gì, một người ham thích cái gì. (various references) | |
Welsh | morfil. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | phallaina. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | balaena, balæna, balena, cete, ceti, cetum, cetus, orcus. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | balaine. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Job Chapter 7, Verse 12 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Poteron qalassa eimi h drakwn oti katetaxaV ep' eme fulakhn |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Numquid mare sum ego aut cetus quia circumdedisti me carcere |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me? |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me? |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Am I a sea, or a sea-beast, that you put a watch over me? |
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| Language | Job Chapter 7, Verse 12 |
| Albanian | A jam vallë deti apo një përbindësh i detit që ti më ruan me një roje? |
| Cebuano | Dagat ba ako, kun mananap ba sa dagat, Nga ikaw magbutang ug usa ka magbalantay kanako? |
| Croatian | Zar sam more ili neman morska, pa si stražu nada mnom stavio? |
| Danish | Er jeg et Hav, eller er jeg en Drage, siden du sætter Vagt ved mig? |
| Dutch | Ben ik dan een zee, of walvis, dat Gij om mij wachten zet? |
| Finnish | Olenko minä meri tai lohikäärme, että asetat vartioston minua vastaan? |
| French | Suis-je une mer, ou un monstre marin, Pour que tu établisses des gardes autour de moi? |
| German | Bin ich denn ein Meer oder ein Meerungeheuer, daß du mich so verwahrst? |
| Haitian Creole | Poukisa ou mete moun veye m' konsa? M' pa lanmè. M' pa gwo bèt lanmè. |
| Hungarian | Tenger vagyok-é én, avagy czethal, hogy õrt állítasz ellenem? |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Mengapa aku ini terus Kauawasi dan Kaujaga? Apakah aku ini naga laut yang berbahaya? |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Adakah aku ini laut atau ikan paus, maka engkau melingkung aku dengan tambak? |
| Italian | Son io forse il mare oppure un mostro marino, perché tu mi metta accanto una guardia? |
| Maori | He moana ranei ahau, he tohora, i mea ai koe i te kaitirotiro moku/ |
| Norwegian | Er jeg et hav eller et havuhyre, siden du setter vakt over mig? |
| Portuguese | Sou eu o mar, ou um monstro marinho, para que me ponhas uma guarda? |
| Rumanian | Oare o mare sknt eu, sau un balaur de mare, de-ai pus strajq kn jurul meu? |
| Russian | тБЪЧЕ С НПТЕ ЙМЙ НПТУЛПЕ ЮХДПЧЙЭЕ, ЮФП фЩ РПУФБЧЙМ ОБДП НОПА УФТБЦХ? |
| Spanish | ¿Acaso soy yo el mar o el monstruo marino, para que me pongas bajo guardia? |
| Swedish | Icke är jag väl ett hav eller ett havsvidunder, så att du måste sätta ut vakt mot mig? |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "whale": whaleback, whalebacks, whaleboat, whaleboats, whalebone, whalebones, whaled, whalelike, whaleman, whalemen, whaler, whalers, whales. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "whale": narwhale. (additional references) | |
Words containing "whale": narwhales. (additional references) | |
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"Whale" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ghaleb, Hwal, Jhaleh, thale, wahl, waile, wailea, waileo, wala, walle, waloe, walue, weale, wehele, whabe, whail, whake, whalei, whalt, whane, whare, whate, whave, whele, whelg, whelle, wheve, whhale, whiley, whoal, wholey, whyle, wrale. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "whale" (pronounced wā"l or hwā"l) |
| 3 | w ā" l | quail, quale, wail, Wale. |
| 2 | -ā" l | ail, ale, assail, avail, bail, bale, braille, Carrell, curtail, dale, derail, detail, entail, exhale, fail, flail, frail, gale, grail, hail, Hale, impale, stale, surveil, tail, tale, inhale, jail, kail, kale, mail, maile, male, nail, pail, pale, prevail, rail, sail, sale, scale, shale, snail, trail, tramell, travail, unveil, Vail, Vale, veil. |
| 3 | -w ā" l | quail, quale, wail, Wale. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: wheal. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-h-l-w" | |
-1 letter: hale, heal, wale, weal. | |
-2 letters: ale, awe, awl, hae, haw, hew, law, lea, wae, wha. | |
-3 letters: ae, ah, al, aw, eh, el, ha, he, la, we. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-h-l-w" | |
+1 letter: awhile, wealth, whaled, whaler, whales, wheals. | |
+2 letters: hewable, shawled, wealths, wealthy, whalers. | |
+3 letters: chewable, eschewal, hallowed, hallower, hawklike, narwhale, plowhead, showable, thawless, washable, wellhead, whaleman, whalemen, wheelman. | |
+4 letters: cartwheel, deathblow, eschewals, gearwheel, hallowers, handwheel, hawsehole, holloware, lowlihead, meanwhile, narwhales, plowheads, plowshare, shallowed, shallower, showplace, swellhead, washables, watchable, wealthier, wealthily, weatherly, weighable, wellheads, whaleback, whaleboat, whalebone, whalelike, wheelbase, wheelsman, whitetail, whitewall, wholesale. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Sounds 10. Quotations: Familiar 11. Quotations: Fiction 12. Quotations: Non-fiction | 13. Usage Frequency 14. Expressions 15. Expressions: Internet 16. Translations: Modern | 17. Translations: Ancient 18. Bible Trace 19. Derivations 20. Rhymes | 21. Anagrams 22. Bibliography |
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