Wolf vs Whale - What's the difference?
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A large wild canid of certain subspecies of Canis lupus .
A man who makes amorous advances on many women.
(music) A wolf tone or wolf note; an unpleasant tone produced when a note matches the natural resonating frequency of the body of a musical instrument, the quality of which may be likened to the howl of a wolf.
One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths.
(figurative) Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation.
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, title= A white worm, or maggot, which infests granaries.
(obsolete) An eating ulcer or sore. See lupus.
* Jeremy Taylor
A willying machine.
To devour; to gobble; to eat (something) voraciously.
* 1987 , James Ellroy, The Black Dahlia
* 2013 , Neil Martin, Collected Stories of the Sea
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.
In transitive terms the difference between wolf and whale
is that wolf is to devour; to gobble; to eat (something) voraciously while whale is to flog, to beat.As a proper noun Wolf
is the constellation Lupus.wolf
English
Noun
(wolves)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“
- If God should send a cancer upon thy face, or a wolf into thy side.
- (Knight)
Hypernyms
* (large wild canid) Canis lupus , canidHyponyms
* (large wild canid) she-wolfCoordinate terms
* (large wild canid) dingo, dog ; coyote, jackal, fox (other canids)Derived terms
(terms derived from "wolf") * Big Bad Wolf * cry wolf * grey wolf, gray wolf * Mexican wolf * raised by wolves * red wolf * sea wolf * she-wolf * Tasmanian wolf * werewolf * white wolf * wolf cub * wolf down * wolf in sheep's clothing * wolf interval * wolfie * wolfish * wolflike * wolf tone * wolvenVerb
- After a wolfed burger dinner, I called the night number at Administrative Vice and inquired about known lesbian gathering places.
- Vicars seated himself and began wolfing a sandwich.
Synonyms
* gulp down, wolf downExternal links
* (wikipedia)Anagrams
* ----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 .