whale

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any large cetacean, usually with the exclusion of dolphins and porpoises.
    — Near-synonym: baleen (obsolete sense)
  2. Any species of Cetacea. broadly
    — 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.[…]It was used to make kerosene, the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale blubber.
  3. Something, or someone, that is very large. figuratively
    — It was a whale of a job. […] It took two months, and the fair blush of youth off my cheeks.
  4. Something, or someone, that is excellent. figuratively
    — My own father only wrote one poem in his life as far as I know, but it was a whale of a lyric, the kind you would give your whole life to write, which he did, but that is another story.
  5. A gambler who routinely wagers large amounts of money. figuratively
    — These are often no-limit games as maximum bets cramp a whale’s style.
  6. An investor who deals with very large amounts of money. figuratively,informal
    — If the banks knew how big Archegos’s position was, they may have realized other banks were supplying it with the same leverage — and reconsidered the trade. But a set of worrisome regulatory loopholes kept them from detecting this lurking whale.
  7. A person who spends large amounts of money on things that are marketed to them. figuratively
    — Whales are the big spenders who drop huge amounts of money into a game.
  8. An overweight person (usually a woman) colloquial,derogatory,figuratively
    — The whale is still snoring. He's a real beauty, the whale. Got this thick curly hair all over his chest and stomach and legs.
动词 v.
  1. To hunt for whales. intransitive
  2. To thrash, to flog, to beat vigorously or soundly. slang,transitive
    — Brought him back, put him in the stall—low stable—got out of his reach, and then begun to whale him. Then he kicked up agin; […]

词形变化

whales plural whales present,singular,third-person whaling participle,present whaled participle,past whaled past whales present,singular,third-person whaling participle,present whaled participle,past whaled past

词汇关系

近义词
whale
上位词
mammal animal
下位词
blue whale fin whale humpback whale orca sperm whale gam pod
衍生词
Arctic whale baleen whale beached whale beaked whale belly of the whale beluga whale black whale blue whale bone whale bottlenose whale bowhead whale Bryde's whale caaing whale ca'ing whale desert whale Eden's whale fail whale false killer whale finback whale fin whale flue whale gray whale grey whale great whale Greenland whale have a whale of a time humpback whale ice whale Jupiter whale killer whale land whale melon-headed whale minke whale narwhale narwhal Omura's whale piked whale pike whale pilot whale polar whale pollack whale pothead whale pygmy right whale razorback whale Rice's whale right whale dolphin right whale Russian whale scrag whale sei whale social whale spade-toothed whale sperm whale spermaceti whale steeple-top whale sulfur-bottom whale sulphur whale thick as a whale omelette thrasher whale thresher whale toothed whale toothless whale unicorn whale very like a whale walking whale whale-backed whale bacon whale barnacle Whale Beach whaleboat whalebone whalebone whale whale catcher whale catfish whale fall whale fisher whalefish whalelike whale line whaleling whalelore whale louse whaleman whalemeat whale oil whale-path whaler whale-road whalery whale safari whale's guide whale shark whaleship whaleshit whale shot whalesong whalespeak whale's road whalesucker whale's way whale tail whale watch whale watcher whale watching whaling whippo white whale wholphin
相关词
narwhal rorqual walrus baleen cachalot cete gam orca pod
并列词
dolphin porpoise fish

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)kʷálos
Proto-Germanic *hwalaz
Proto-West Germanic *hwal
Old English hwæl
Middle English whal
English whale
From Middle English whal, whale, from Old English hwæl (“whale”), from Proto-West Germanic *hwal, from Proto-Germanic *hwalaz (“whale”) (compare German Wal, Swedish val, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål hval, Norwegian Nynorsk kval; compare also Dutch walvis, West Frisian walfisk, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kʷálos (“sheatfish”) (compare German Wels, Latin squalus (“big sea fish”), Old Prussian kalis, Ancient Greek ἄσπαλος (áspalos), Avestan 𐬐𐬀𐬭𐬀 (kara, “kind of fish”)).
词源 2
Uncertain. Perhaps a variant of wale influenced by whack, whap, etc.
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