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Veil vs Whale - What's the difference?

veil | whale |

As nouns the difference between veil and whale

is that veil is something hung up, or spread out, to hide an object from view; usually of gauze, crape, or similar diaphanous material, to hide or protect the face while whale is any of several species of large sea mammals of the order Cetacea.

As verbs the difference between veil and whale

is that veil is to don, or garb with, a veil while whale is to hunt for whales.

veil

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Something hung up, or spread out, to hide an object from view; usually of gauze, crape, or similar diaphanous material, to hide or protect the face.
  • * Bible, Matthew xxvii. 51
  • The veil of the temple was rent in twain.
  • * Milton
  • She, as a veil down to the slender waist, / Her unadorned golden tresses wore.
  • A cover; disguise; a mask; a pretense.
  • * Shakespeare
  • [I will] pluck the borrowed veil of modesty from the so seeming Mistress Page.
  • * 2007 . Zerzan, John. Silence . p. 4.
  • Beckett complains that "in the forest of symbols" there is never quiet, and longs to break through the veil of language to silence.
  • The calyptra of mosses.
  • A membrane connecting the margin of the pileus of a mushroom with the stalk; -- called also velum.
  • A covering for a person or thing; as, a caul; a nun's veil; a paten veil; an altar veil; a Moslem veil.
  • (zoology) velum (A circular membrane round the cap of medusa)
  • (mycology) A thin layer of tissue which is attached to or covers a mushroom.
  • Verb

  • To don, or garb with, a veil.
  • To conceal as with a veil.
  • The forest fire was veiled by smoke, but I could hear it clearly.

    whale

    English

    (wikipedia whale) (Cetacea)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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= 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.
  • (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, page 131:
  • It was a whale of a job. It took two months, and the fair blush of youth off my cheeks.
  • * 1947 May 19, John Chamberlain, “Will Clayton and his Problem”, in , page 120:
  • 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.
  • (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 ,
  • These are often no-limit games as maximum bets cramp a whale ’s style.
  • * 2004 , Norm Clarke, Vegas Confidential: Norm! Sin City's Ace Insider 1,000 Naked Truths, Hot Spots and Cool Stuff ,
  • 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.
  • * 2008', Deke Castleman, '''''Whale Hunt in the Desert ,
  • 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 * whaling

    See also

    (other associated terms) * baleen * cachalot * cete * orca * gam * pod * rorqual

    Verb

  • To hunt for whales.
  • To flog, to beat.
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