What is the difference between predatory and hawk?
predatory | hawk |
Of, or relating to a predator.
Living by preying on other living animals.
(figuratively) Exploiting or victimizing others for personal gain.
A diurnal predatory bird of the family Accipitridae .
(politics) An advocate of aggressive political positions and actions; a warmonger.
* 1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game , Folio Society 2010, p. 106:
To hunt with a hawk.
* 2003 , Brenda Joyce, House of Dreams , page 175:
To make an attack while on the wing; to soar and strike like a hawk.
* Shakespeare
A plasterer's tool, made of a flat surface with a handle below, used to hold an amount of plaster prior to application to the wall or ceiling being worked on: a mortarboard.
To sell; to offer for sale by outcry in the street; to carry (merchandise) about from place to place for sale; to peddle.
* Jonathan Swift
(intransitive) To cough up something from one's throat.
* 1751 , , I. xvi. 117
* 1953 , , Viking Press, chapter 3:
(intransitive) To try to cough up something from one's throat; to clear the throat loudly.
As a adjective predatory
is of, or relating to a predator.As a noun hawk is
a diurnal predatory bird of the family accipitridae or hawk can be a plasterer's tool, made of a flat surface with a handle below, used to hold an amount of plaster prior to application to the wall or ceiling being worked on: a mortarboard or hawk can be an effort to force up phlegm from the throat, accompanied with noise.As a verb hawk is
to hunt with a hawk or hawk can be to sell; to offer for sale by outcry in the street; to carry (merchandise) about from place to place for sale; to peddle or hawk can be to forcibly attempt to cough up (phlegm).predatory
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* (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)Derived terms
* predatory pricingAnagrams
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*hawk
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(wikipedia hawk)Etymology 1
(etyl) hauk, from (etyl) hafoc, from (etyl) 'falcon', (etyl) kobuz 'Eurasian Hobby').Noun
(en noun)- It is illegal to hunt hawks or other raptors in many parts of the world.
- A hawk by nature, Ellenborough strongly favoured presenting St Petersburg with an ultimatum warning that any further incursions into Persia would be regarded as a hostile act.
Antonyms
* (politics) doveDerived terms
* African harrier hawk * aspere-hawk * ball hawk * bay-winged hawk * bee hawk * between hawk and buzzard * bicoloured hawk * black hawk * broad-winged hawk * brown hawk * chicken hawk, chicken-hawk, chickenhawk * common black hawk * Cooper's hawk * deficit hawk * dor-hawk, dorhawk, dorrhawk * dove hawk * duck hawk, duck-hawk * eagle hawk, eagle-hawk, eaglehawk * ferruginous hawk * fish hawk, fish-hawk, fishhawk * * game hawk * gnat hawk, gnat-hawk * gray hawk, grey hawk * gray-lined hawk, grey-lined hawk * great black hawk * great-footed hawk * Gundlach's hawk * Harlan's hawk * harrier hawk * Harris hawk, Harris's hawk * have eyes like a hawk * Hawaiian hawk * hawk-beaked * hawk-bell * hawkbill * hawk-cuckoo * hawk-dove game * hawk eagle * hawked * hawker * hawkery * hawk-eye * hawk-eyed * hawkfish * hawk fly, hawk-fly * hawk-headed parrot * hawkish * hawk-kite * hawk-like, hawklike * hawk moth, hawk-moth, hawkmoth * hawk nose, hawk-nose, hawknose * hawk-nosed * hawk-nut, hawknut * hawk of the fist * hawk of the lure * hawk of the soar * hawk owl, hawk-owl * hawk-parrot * hawk's beard, hawk's-beard, hawksbeard * hawk's bell * hawk's bill, hawk's-bill, hawksbill * hawk's-bill turtle, hawksbill turtle * hawk's eye, hawk's-eye * hawk's-feet, hawk's-foot * hawk's meat * hawk swallow, hawk-swallow * hawkweed * hawkwise * hawky * hen hawk, hen-hawk * hobby hawk * hover-hawk * jack-hawk * jashawk * Jayhawk * kitchen hawk * know a hawk from a handsaw * Krider's hawk * lark-hawk * liberal hawk * long-tailed hawk * Lucifer hawk * make-hawk * man-of-war hawk * mangrove black hawk * mar-hawk * market-hawk * marsh hawk * meadowhawk * moor hawk * mosquito hawk * moth-hawk * mountain hawk * mouse hawk, mouse-hawk * news-hawk, newshawk * night hawk, night-hawk * pap-hawk * partridge-hawk * passage hawk * peregrine hawk * pigeon hawk, pigeon-hawk * plain-breasted hawk * pondhawk * prairie hawk * quail hawk * red-shouldered hawk * red-tailed hawk * Ridgway's hawk * ringtail hawk * rough-legged hawk * rufous-thighed hawk * savanna hawk * screech hawk, screech-hawk * sea hawk, sea-hawk * semicollared hawk * sharp-shinned hawk * shite-hawk * short-tailed hawk * shower hawk * skeeter hawk * small-bird-hawk * snake hawk * snipe hawk * spar-hawk, sparhawk * sparrow hawk, sparrow-hawk, sparrowhawk * squirrel hawk * stand hawk * stannel hawk * star-hawk * stone hawk * Swainson's hawk * swallow-tailed hawk * tarantula hawk * tiny hawk * vanner hawk * war hawk, war-hawk * watch (someone or something) like a hawk * whistling hawk * white-breasted hawk * white-throated hawk * white hawk * zone-tailed hawkVerb
(en verb)- He rode astride while (hawking); she falconed in the ladylike position of sidesaddle.
- to hawk at flies
- (Dryden)
- A falcon, towering in her pride of place, / Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed.
Derived terms
* hawk after * hawk at * hawk for * hawkingEtymology 2
Uncertain origin; perhaps from (etyl) , or from a variant use of .Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* mortarboardDerived terms
* hawk boy, hawk-boyEtymology 3
Verb
(en verb)- The vendors were hawking their wares from little tables lining either side of the market square.
- His works were hawked in every street.
Derived terms
* hawked * hawking * hawkyEtymology 4
Onomatopoeia.Synonyms
* (noun)Verb
(en verb)- He hawked up, with incredible straining, the interjection ah!
- He had a new tough manner of pulling down breath and hawking into the street.
- Grandpa sat on the front porch, hawking and wheezing, as he packed his pipe with cheap tobacco.
