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Any of several species of large sea mammals of the order Cetacea.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (figuratively) Something, or someone, that is very large.
* 1920 September, “A Reformed Free Lance” (pseudonym), “Doctoring a Sick Encyclopedia”, in The Writer , Volume XXXII, Number 9,
* 1947 May 19, John Chamberlain, “Will Clayton and his Problem”, in ,
(gambling) (In a casino) a person who routinely bets at the maximum limit allowable.
* 2003 , Jeff Wuorio, How to Buy and Sell (Just About) Everything ,
* 2004 , Norm Clarke, Vegas Confidential: Norm! Sin City's Ace Insider 1,000 Naked Truths, Hot Spots and Cool Stuff ,
* 2008', Deke Castleman, '''''Whale Hunt in the Desert ,
To hunt for whales.
To flog, to beat.
(notcomp) Of or belonging to the species Homo sapiens or its closest relatives.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
, volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= (comparable) Having the nature or attributes of a human being.
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
, chapter=1 * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=20 * 2011 August 17, Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.,
A human being, whether man, woman or child.
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, title= (lb) To behave as or become, or to cause to behave as or become, a human.
* 2013 , Biosocial Becomings (ISBN 110702563X), page 19:
* 1911 , The collected works of Ambrose Bierce , volume 9, page 362:
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As a noun whale
is any of several species of large sea mammals of the order cetacea.As a verb whale
is to hunt for whales.As an adjective human is
(label) classical (of or pertaining to the classical - latin, greek - languages, literature, history and philosophy).whale
English
(wikipedia whale) (Cetacea)Noun
(en noun)Yesterday’s fuel, passage=The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.
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- It was a whale of a job. It took two months, and the fair blush of youth off my cheeks.
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- But when it comes to his business life and business career, 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.
- These are often no-limit games as maximum bets cramp a whale ’s style.
- A handful of the richest whales routinely play for $200,000 a hand. Australian media mogul Kerry Packer not only regularly bets that much, but has plunked down $200,000 bets for the dealer as a form of a tip.
- 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 .
Derived terms
* blue whale * fin whale * have a whale of a time * humpback whale * killer whale * narwhal * pilot whale * sperm whale * whale catfish * whaler * whale fall * whalefish * whalelore * whale shark * whale watching * whalingSee also
(other associated terms) * baleen * cachalot * cete * orca * gam * pod * rorqualVerb
Anagrams
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English
Adjective
(en adjective)Fantasy of navigation, passage=Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.}}
citation, passage=She was like a Beardsley Salome , he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry.}}
citation, passage=The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad.}}
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- Google wouldn't be human if it didn't want some of this loot, which buying Motorola would enable it to grab.
Synonyms
* (l)Derived terms
* human behaviour * human being * human botfly * human capital * human chattel * human chorionic gonadotropin * human-computer interaction * human condition * human death * human development * Human Genome Project * human immunodeficiency virus * human insulin * human interest * humanism * humanist * humanization * humanize * humanizer * human knot * human kind, humankind * humanly * human movement * human nature * humanoid * human papillomavirus * human pyramid * human race * human relations * human resources (HR) * human rights * human trafficking * inhuman * inhumane * nonhuman, non-human * to err is human (human)Noun
(en noun)Katie L. Burke
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Verb
(en verb)- There are, then, many ways of humaning : these are the ways along which we make ourselves and, collaboratively, one another.