Whale

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Any large cetacean, usually with the exclusion of dolphins and porpoises.

   “Near-synonym: baleen (obsolete sense)”

2. isim Any species of Cetacea.
3. isim Something, or someone, that is very large.

   “It was a whale of a job. […] It took two months, and the fair blush of youth off my cheeks.”

4. isim Something, or someone, that is excellent.

   “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. isim A gambler who routinely wagers large amounts of money.

   “These are often no-limit games as maximum bets cramp a whale’s style.”

6. isim An investor who deals with very large amounts of money.

   “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. isim A person who spends large amounts of money on things that are marketed to them.

   “Whales are the big spenders who drop huge amounts of money into a game.”

8. isim An overweight person (usually a woman)

   “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.”

9. fiil To hunt for whales.
10. fiil To thrash, to flog, to beat vigorously or soundly.

    “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; […]”

11. özel isim A surname.
12. özel isim A hamlet in Lowther parish, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in Eden district (OS grid ref NY5221).