1. whale(n = noun.person) giant, heavyweight, hulk - a very large person; impressive in size or qualities;
is a kind of large person
2. whale(n = noun.animal) - any of the larger cetacean mammals having a streamlined body and breathing through a blowhole on the head;
is a kind of blower, cetacean, cetacean mammal
has particulars: baleen whale, whalebone whale, toothed whale, monodon monoceros, narwal, narwhal, narwhale, spouter
Derived form verb whale1
whale(v = verb.competition) - hunt for whales;
is one way to hunt, hunt down, run, track down
Derived forms noun whale2, noun whaler2, noun whaler1
Sample sentences:
In the summer they like to go out and whale
Any aquatic mammal of the order
" The existing whales are divided into two groups: the toothed whales (
whale, n. (pl. same or whales) any of the larger marine mammals of the order Cetacea, having a streamlined body and horizontal tail, and breathing through a blowhole on the head.
Idiom:
a whale of a colloq. an exceedingly good or fine etc. whale-oil oil from the blubber of whales. whale shark a large tropical whalelike shark, Rhincodon typus, feeding close to the surface.
whale, v.tr. esp. US colloq. beat, thrash.
Etymology:
var. of WALE
N size, magnitude, dimension, bulk, volume, largeness, greatness, expanse, amplitude, mass, proportions, capacity, tonnage, tunnage, cordage, caliber, scantling, turgidity, corpulence, obesity, plumpness, embonpoint, corporation, flesh and blood, lustihood, hugeness, enormity, immensity, monstrosity, giant, Brobdingnagian, Antaeus, Goliath, Gog and Magog, Gargantua, monster, mammoth, Cyclops, cachalot, whale, porpoise, behemoth, leviathan, elephant, hippopotamus, colossus, tun, cord, lump, bulk, block, loaf, mass, swad, clod, nugget, bushel, thumper, whooper, spanker, strapper, Triton among the minnows, mountain, mound, heap, largest portion, full size, life size, large, big, great, considerable, bulky, voluminous, ample, massive, massy, capacious, comprehensive, spacious, mighty, towering, fine, magnificent, corpulent, stout, fat, obese, plump, squab, full, lusty, strapping, bouncing, portly, burly, well-fed, full-grown, corn fed, gram fed, stalwart, brawny, fleshy, goodly, in good case, in good condition, in condition, chopping, jolly, chub faced, chubby faced, lubberly, hulky, unwieldy, lumpish, gaunt, spanking, whacking, whopping, walloping, thumping, thundering, hulking, overgrown, puffy, huge, immense, enormous, mighty, vast, vasty, amplitudinous, stupendous, monster, monstrous, humongous, monumental, elephantine, jumbo, mammoth, gigantic, gigantean, giant, giant like, titanic, prodigious, colossal, Cyclopean, Brobdingnagian, Bunyanesque, Herculean, Gargantuan, infinite, large as life, plump as a dumpling, plump as a partridge, fat as a pig, fat as a quail, fat as butter, fat as brawn, fat as bacon, immeasurable, unfathomable, unplumbed, inconceivable, unimaginable, unheard-of, of cosmic proportions, of epic proportions, the mother of all, teh granddaddy of all.
baleen whale, beaked whale, black whale, blue whale, bottle-nosed whale, bottlenose whale, bowhead whale, dwarf sperm whale, fin whale, finback whale, gray whale, greenland whale, grey whale, humpback whale, killer whale, minke whale, piked whale, pilot whale, pygmy sperm whale, right whale, sei whale, sperm whale, toothed whale, whale louse, whale oil, whale shark, whale sucker, whalebone whale, white whale