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"taxonomic": "Balaena mysticetus",
"word": "Arctic whale"
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"english": "suborder Mysticeti",
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"english": "family Ziphiidae",
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"word": "Belly of the Whale"
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"taxonomic": "Delphinapterus leucas",
"word": "beluga whale"
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"english": "family Balaenidae",
"word": "black whale"
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"word": "bone whale"
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"word": "bottlenose whale"
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"taxonomic": "Balaena mysticetus",
"word": "bowhead whale"
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"taxonomic": "Balaenoptera brydei",
"word": "Bryde's whale"
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"word": "caaing whale"
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"taxonomic": "Globicephala melas",
"word": "ca'ing whale"
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"word": "desert whale"
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"taxonomic": "Balaenoptera edeni",
"word": "Eden's whale"
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"word": "fail whale"
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"taxonomic": "Balaenoptera physalus",
"word": "finback whale"
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"taxonomic": "Balaenoptera physalus",
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"taxonomic": "Eschrichtius robustus",
"word": "gray whale"
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"taxonomic": "Eschrichtius robustus",
"word": "grey whale"
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"english": "family Balaenidae",
"word": "great whale"
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"taxonomic": "Balaena mysticetus",
"word": "Greenland whale"
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"word": "have a whale of a time"
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"taxonomic": "Megaptera novaeangliae",
"word": "humpback whale"
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"taxonomic": "Balaena mysticetus",
"word": "ice whale"
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"taxonomic": "Balaenoptera physalus",
"word": "Jupiter whale"
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"taxonomic": "Orcinus orca",
"word": "killer whale"
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"word": "land whale"
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"taxonomic": "Delphinapterus leucas",
"word": "melon-headed whale"
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"taxonomic": "Balaenoptera bonaerensis",
"word": "minke whale"
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"taxonomic": "Monodon monoceros",
"word": "narwhale"
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"taxonomic": "Monodon monoceros",
"word": "narwhal"
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"taxonomic": "Balaenoptera omurai",
"word": "Omura's whale"
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"taxonomic": "Balaenoptera bonaerensis",
"word": "piked whale"
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"taxonomic": "Balaenoptera bonaerensis",
"word": "pike whale"
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"taxonomic": "Globicephala spp.",
"word": "pilot whale"
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"taxonomic": "Balaena mysticetus",
"word": "polar whale"
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"taxonomic": "Balaenoptera borealis",
"word": "pollack whale"
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"taxonomic": "Globicephala spp.",
"word": "pothead whale"
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"taxonomic": "Balaenoptera physalus",
"word": "razorback whale"
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"english": "family Balaenidae",
"word": "right whale"
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"taxonomic": "Balaena mysticetus",
"word": "Russian whale"
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"taxonomic": "Eschrichtius gibbosus",
"word": "scrag whale"
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"taxonomic": "Balaenoptera borealis",
"word": "sei whale"
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"word": "social whale"
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"word": "sperm whale"
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"word": "spermaceti whale"
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"word": "steeple-top whale"
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"word": "sulfur-bottom whale"
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"word": "thick as a whale omelette"
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"taxonomic": "Orcinus orca",
"word": "thrasher whale"
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"english": "suborder Odontoceti",
"word": "toothed whale"
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"word": "toothless whale"
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"word": "unicorn whale"
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"word": "very like a whale"
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"word": "walking whale"
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"word": "whale-backed"
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"word": "whale barnacle"
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"word": "whaleboat"
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"english": "family Balaenidae",
"word": "whalebone whale"
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"word": "whale catcher"
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"english": "family Cetopsidae",
"word": "whale catfish"
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"word": "whale fall"
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"english": "order Cetomimiformes",
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"word": "whale louse"
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"word": "whale oil"
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"taxonomic": "Delphinapterus leucas",
"word": "white whale"
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"ref": "1947 May 19, John Chamberlain, “Will Clayton and his Problem”, in Life, page 120",
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"ref": "2002, Kathleen Benson, Philip M. Kayal, Museum of the City of New York, A Community of Many Worlds: Arab Americans in New York City, Syracuse University Press →ISBN, page 54",
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"ref": "2006, June Skinner Sawyers, Read the Beatles: Classic and New Writings on the Beatles, Their Legacy, and Why They Still Matter, Penguin",
"text": "Busley Crowther in The New York Times called it “a whale of a comedy” even though he couldn't tell the four musicians apart except for Ringo (“the big-nosed one”).",
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"ref": "2013, Fred Holtby, Chris Lovie, ROWDY - THE STORY OF A POLICE DOG, Lulu.com, page 105",
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[
"excellent",
"excellent"
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],
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"(figuratively, as \"whale of a ___\") Something, or someone, that is excellent."
],
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"as \"whale of a ___\"",
"figuratively"
]
},
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"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Gambling",
"orig": "en:Gambling",
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"Games",
"Recreation",
"Human activity",
"Human behaviour",
"Human",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
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}
],
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{
"ref": "2003, Jeff Wuorio, How to Buy and Sell (Just About) Everything",
"text": "These are often no-limit games as maximum bets cramp a whale’s style.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2004, Norm Clarke, Vegas Confidential: Norm! Sin City's Ace Insider 1,000 Naked Truths, Hot Spots and Cool Stuff",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2008, Deke Castleman, Whale Hunt in the Desert",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"In a casino, a person who routinely bets at the maximum limit allowable."
],
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[
"gambling",
"gambling#Noun"
]
],
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],
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"en:gambling"
],
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"gambling",
"games"
]
},
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"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Finance",
"orig": "en:Finance",
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"Economics",
"Society",
"Social sciences",
"All topics",
"Sciences",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
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"parents": [],
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},
{
"_dis": "26 30 1 1 5 20 9 4 4",
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"name": "Eastern Min terms with redundant transliterations",
"parents": [
"Terms with redundant transliterations",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
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{
"ref": "2021 May 18, Alexis Goldstein, “These Invisible Whales Could Sink the Economy”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"An investor who deals with very large amounts of money."
],
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[
"finance",
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],
[
"investor",
"investor"
]
],
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"(finance, informal) An investor who deals with very large amounts of money."
],
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"informal"
],
"topics": [
"business",
"finance"
]
},
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"name": "Marketing",
"orig": "en:Marketing",
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"Economics",
"Society",
"Social sciences",
"All topics",
"Sciences",
"Fundamental"
],
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}
],
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{
"ref": "2015, Jamie Madigan, Getting Gamers: The Psychology of Video Games and Their Impact on the People who Play Them",
"text": "Whales are the big spenders who drop huge amounts of money into a game.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2015, Omer Artun, Dominique Levin, Predictive Marketing: Easy Ways Every Marketer Can Use Customer Analytics and Big Data, John Wiley & Sons, page 99",
"text": "These different customer groups will be attracted to very different promotions. Your whales might enjoy receiving frequent emails from you and will purchase almost every time.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2020, Lawrence Ingrassia, Billion Dollar Brand Club: How Dollar Shave Club, Warby Parker, and Other Disruptors Are Remaking What We Buy, Henry Holt and Company",
"text": "[…] gleaned from their activity: one group they dubbed “whales,” the highest-value customers, who bought shave cream and wipes as well as razors; […]",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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],
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[
"marketing",
"marketing#Noun"
],
[
"person",
"person"
]
],
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"(marketing, by extension) A person who spends large amounts of money on things that are marketed to them."
],
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"broadly"
],
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"business",
"marketing"
]
},
{
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],
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],
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"offensive",
"slang"
]
}
],
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},
{
"ipa": "/ʍeɪl/",
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},
{
"rhymes": "-eɪl"
},
{
"homophone": "wail"
},
{
"homophone": "wale (in accents with the wine-whine merger)"
},
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"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f6/En-us-whale.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
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},
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},
{
"enpr": "hwāl"
}
],
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}
],
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"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "ady",
"lang": "Adyghe",
"roman": "džejxɛr",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "джейхэр"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "af",
"lang": "Afrikaans",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "walvis"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "ain",
"lang": "Ainu",
"roman": "humpe",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "フンペ"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "sq",
"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "balenë"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "ale",
"lang": "Aleut",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "alax̂"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "alr",
"lang": "Alutor",
"roman": "juŋjuŋ",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "юӈюӈ"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "alr",
"lang": "Alutor",
"roman": "juŋəj",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "юӈый"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ḥūt",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "حُوت"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "an",
"lang": "Aragonese",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ballena"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "syc",
"lang": "Aramaic",
"roman": "qēṭā",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"Classical-Syriac",
"masculine"
],
"word": "ܩܐܛܐ"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "ket",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "կետ"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "as",
"lang": "Assamese",
"roman": "timi",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "তিমি"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "as",
"lang": "Assamese",
"roman": "timi mas",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "তিমি মাছ"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "ast",
"lang": "Asturian",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ballena"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "av",
"lang": "Avar",
"roman": "kit",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "кит"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "balina"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "kit"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "eu",
"lang": "Basque",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "balea"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "sne",
"lang": "Bau Bidayuh",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "paos"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "sne",
"lang": "Bau Bidayuh",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "kien paos"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "kit",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "кіт"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "bn",
"lang": "Bengali",
"roman": "timi",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "তিমি"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "bth",
"lang": "Biatah Bidayuh",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "paus"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "bi",
"lang": "Bislama",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "welfis"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "br",
"lang": "Breton",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "balum"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "kit",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "кит"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "my",
"lang": "Burmese",
"roman": "wela.nga:",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "ဝေလငါး"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "my",
"lang": "Burmese",
"roman": "nga:wan",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "ငါးဝန်"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "balena"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "ceb",
"lang": "Cebuano",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "balyena"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "mel",
"lang": "Central Melanau",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "pauih"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "cbk",
"lang": "Chavacano",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "ballena"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "ce",
"lang": "Chechen",
"roman": "doq",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "докх"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "chr",
"lang": "Cherokee",
"roman": "daqua",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "ᏓᏆ"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "鯨魚"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "yue",
"english": "king⁴ jyu⁴",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "鲸鱼"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "dng",
"lang": "Chinese",
"roman": "žinyü",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"Dungan"
],
"word": "җинйү"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "cdo",
"lang": "Eastern Min Chinese",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "鯨魚"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "cdo",
"lang": "Eastern Min Chinese",
"roman": "gĭng-ngṳ̀",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "鲸鱼"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "hak",
"lang": "Hakka Chinese",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "鯨魚"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "hak",
"lang": "Hakka Chinese",
"roman": "kîn-ǹg",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "鲸鱼"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "nan-hbl",
"lang": "Chinese",
"roman": "zh-min-nan",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"Hokkien"
],
"word": "海翁"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "nan-hbl",
"lang": "Chinese",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"Hokkien"
],
"word": "鯨魚"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "nan-hbl",
"lang": "Chinese",
"roman": "kiang-hî",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"Hokkien"
],
"word": "鲸鱼"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "鯨魚"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "jīngyú",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "鲸鱼"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "wuu",
"lang": "Wu Chinese",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "鯨魚"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "wuu",
"lang": "Wu Chinese",
"roman": "³jjin-hhngg",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "鲸鱼"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "ckt",
"lang": "Chukchi",
"roman": "rʺėv",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "ръэв"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "ckt",
"lang": "Chukchi",
"roman": "rʺėvyt",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"plural"
],
"word": "ръэвыт"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "kw",
"lang": "Cornish",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "morvil"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "co",
"lang": "Corsican",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "balena"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "crh",
"lang": "Crimean Tatar",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "kit"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "velryba"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "hval"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "walvis"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "ovd",
"lang": "Elfdalian",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "wal"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "egl",
"lang": "Emilian",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "baläṅna"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "myv",
"lang": "Erzya",
"roman": "kit",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "кит"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "baleno"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "vaal"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "eve",
"lang": "Even",
"roman": "kalim",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "калим"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "evn",
"lang": "Evenki",
"roman": "kalim",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "калим"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "hvalur"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "fj",
"lang": "Fijian",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "tavuto"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "fj",
"lang": "Fijian",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "tovuto"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "valas"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "baleine"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "fro",
"lang": "Old French",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "balaine"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "fro",
"lang": "Old French",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "baleine"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "fur",
"lang": "Friulian",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "balene"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "balea"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "vešaṗi",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "ვეშაპი"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Wal"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "fálaina",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "φάλαινα"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "phállaina",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "φάλλαινα"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "kêtos",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "κῆτος"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "kl",
"lang": "Greenlandic",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "arfeq"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "pov",
"lang": "Guinea-Bissau Creole",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "baleia"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "gu",
"lang": "Gujarati",
"roman": "vhel māchlī",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "વ્હેલ માછલી"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "gu",
"lang": "Gujarati",
"roman": "timi",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "તિમિ"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "hai",
"english": "any whale",
"lang": "Haida",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "kun"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "hai",
"english": "beached whale",
"lang": "Haida",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "kung̱aawagan"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "ht",
"lang": "Haitian Creole",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "balèn"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "hur",
"lang": "Halkomelem",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "qwél:es"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "haw",
"lang": "Hawaiian",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "koholā"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "livyatán",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "לווייתן \\ לִוְיָתָן"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "vhel",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "व्हेल"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "hvel",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "ह्वेल"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "timi",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "तिमि"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "timiṅgal",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "तिमिंगल"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "bálna"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "cet"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "iba",
"lang": "Iban",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "ikan bam"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "hvalur"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "baleno"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "ilo",
"lang": "Ilocano",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "balyena"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "ikan paus"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "kiitta"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "iu",
"lang": "Inuktitut",
"roman": "arfik",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "ᐊᕐᕕᒃ"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "ik",
"lang": "Inupiaq",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "agviq"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "míol mór"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "balena"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"alt": "くじら",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kujira",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "鯨"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kujira",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "クジラ"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"alt": "いさな",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "isana",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"archaic"
],
"word": "勇魚"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "jv",
"lang": "Javanese",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "lodan"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "kbd",
"lang": "Kabardian",
"roman": "džej",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "джей"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "xal",
"lang": "Kalmyk",
"roman": "tul zağsn",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "тул заһсн"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "kn",
"lang": "Kannada",
"roman": "timiṅgila",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "ತಿಮಿಂಗಿಲ"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "pam",
"lang": "Kapampangan",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "dambuala"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "kmv",
"lang": "Karipúna Creole French",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "balén"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "kyh",
"lang": "Karok",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "ishkêet"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "kyh",
"lang": "Karok",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "ípar"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "kju",
"lang": "Kashaya",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "pu·šu"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "kk",
"lang": "Kazakh",
"roman": "kit",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "кит"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "kk",
"lang": "Kazakh",
"roman": "nauan",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "науан"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "pintɔɔng",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "ពិន្ទង"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "gorae",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "고래"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "ckb",
"lang": "Central Kurdish",
"roman": "neheng",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "نەھەنگ"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "kmr",
"lang": "Northern Kurdish",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "neheng"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "kwk",
"lang": "Kwak'wala",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "g̱wa̱'ya̱m"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "ky",
"lang": "Kyrgyz",
"roman": "kit",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "кит"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "lad",
"lang": "Ladino",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "balena"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "lo",
"lang": "Lao",
"roman": "wān",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "ວານ"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "lo",
"lang": "Lao",
"roman": "bā lǣn",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "ບາແລນ"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "balaena"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "valis"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "lij",
"lang": "Ligurian",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "balénn-a"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "ln",
"lang": "Lingala",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "mondɛ́lɛ́"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "banginis"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "lmo",
"lang": "Lombard",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "balèna"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "nds",
"lang": "Low German",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Waal"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "lb",
"lang": "Luxembourgish",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Wal"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "kit",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "кит"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "mg",
"lang": "Malagasy",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "trozona"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "ikan paus"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "paus"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "lodan"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "mina"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "ml",
"lang": "Malayalam",
"roman": "timiṅgalaṁ",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "തിമിംഗലം"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "mt",
"lang": "Maltese",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "balena"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "mt",
"lang": "Maltese",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "baliena"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "mnc",
"lang": "Manchu",
"roman": "boo nimaha",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "ᠪᠣᠣ ᠨᡳᠮᠠᡥᠠ"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "meeyl mooar"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "ika moana"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "mr",
"lang": "Marathi",
"roman": "devmāsā",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "देवमासा"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "mxe",
"lang": "Mele-Fila",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "tafurā"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"alt": "kʿy /kar/",
"code": "pal",
"lang": "Middle Persian",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "𐭪𐭥𐭩"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "mdf",
"lang": "Moksha",
"roman": "kit",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "кит"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "mn",
"lang": "Mongolian",
"roman": "xalim",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "халим"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "mn",
"lang": "Mongolian",
"roman": "qalimu",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"Mongolian"
],
"word": "ᠬᠠᠯᠢᠮᠤ"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "nah",
"lang": "Nahuatl",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "huēyimichin"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "gld",
"lang": "Nanai",
"roman": "kalima",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "калима"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "nv",
"lang": "Navajo",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "łóóʼtsoh"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "ne",
"lang": "Nepali",
"roman": "timi",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "तिमि"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "nay",
"lang": "Ngarrindjeri",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "kondoli"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "niv",
"lang": "Nivkh",
"roman": "keŋ",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "кеӈ"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "nuk",
"lang": "Nootka",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "ʔiiḥtuup"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "se",
"lang": "Northern Sami",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "fális"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "hval"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kval"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kval"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "balena"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "or",
"lang": "Odia",
"roman": "timi",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "ତିମି"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "ryu",
"lang": "Okinawan",
"roman": "guzira",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "ぐじら"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "cu",
"lang": "Church Slavic",
"roman": "kʹitŭ",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "к҄итъ"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "orv",
"lang": "Old East Slavic",
"roman": "kitŭ",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "китъ"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "hwæl"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "goh",
"lang": "Old High German",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "wal"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "ada balığı",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "آطه بالغی"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "balena",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "بالنه"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "pau",
"lang": "Palauan",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "medob"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "pag",
"lang": "Pangasinan",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "lampasot"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "ps",
"lang": "Pashto",
"roman": "naháng",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "نهنګ"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "nahang",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "نهنگ"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "vâl",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "وال"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "pms",
"lang": "Piedmontese",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "balen-a"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Waulfesch"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "wieloryb"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "waleń"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "baleia"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "rap",
"lang": "Rapa Nui",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "taʻoraha"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "rgn",
"lang": "Romagnol",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "baléna"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "balenă"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "rm",
"lang": "Romansch",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "balena"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kit",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "кит"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "str",
"lang": "Saanich",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "ḰENES"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "sm",
"lang": "Samoan",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "tafolā"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "sa",
"lang": "Sanskrit",
"roman": "timi",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "तिमि"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "sco",
"lang": "Scots",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "whaul"
},
{
"_dis1": "41 38 3 0 2 8 7 3",
"code": "gd",
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"sense": "large sea mammal",
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"word": "кит"
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"word": "velrybařit"
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"ref": "1852, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Why Mr Sellum disposed of the horse (chapter XIV in Works, volume 22)",
"text": "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; […]"
},
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"ref": "1865 May, “Three Days at Camp Douglass”, in Our Young Folks: An Illustrated Magazine for Boys and Girls, volume I, number V, page 296",
"text": "\"I wouldn't let him. When you were a boy in your part of the country, and other boys told tales about you, what did you do with them?\" \"Whaled 'em like time, Captin',\" answered the man; \"and if ye'll only shet yer eyes to 't, I'll whale him.\" \"I can't allow such things in the prison,\" said the Captain; \"and besides, the fellow will be lame for a fortnight, and wouldn't be a match for you in that condition. Let him get limber, and then, if you don't whale him, I'll make you walk the ladder for a month.\" The result was, the conscript officer received a sound thrashing; and did not commit another act worthy of punishment for a week.",
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "bija",
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"word": "бия"
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "perdaša",
"sense": "to beat vigorously",
"word": "пердаша"
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"sense": "to beat vigorously",
"word": "verhauen"
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{
"english": "family Ziphiidae",
"word": "beaked whale"
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{
"word": "Belly of the Whale"
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{
"word": "belly of the whale"
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{
"taxonomic": "Delphinapterus leucas",
"word": "beluga whale"
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{
"english": "family Balaenidae",
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{
"taxonomic": "Balaenoptera musculus",
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{
"english": "family Balaenidae",
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{
"word": "bottlenose whale"
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{
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"word": "bowhead whale"
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{
"taxonomic": "Balaenoptera brydei",
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{
"word": "caaing whale"
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{
"taxonomic": "Globicephala melas",
"word": "ca'ing whale"
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{
"word": "desert whale"
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{
"taxonomic": "Balaenoptera edeni",
"word": "Eden's whale"
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{
"word": "fail whale"
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"taxonomic": "Eschrichtius robustus",
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{
"taxonomic": "Eschrichtius robustus",
"word": "grey whale"
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"taxonomic": "Balaena mysticetus",
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{
"word": "have a whale of a time"
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{
"taxonomic": "Megaptera novaeangliae",
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"taxonomic": "Balaena mysticetus",
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"taxonomic": "Balaenoptera physalus",
"word": "Jupiter whale"
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"taxonomic": "Orcinus orca",
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"word": "land whale"
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{
"taxonomic": "Delphinapterus leucas",
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{
"taxonomic": "Monodon monoceros",
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{
"taxonomic": "Balaenoptera omurai",
"word": "Omura's whale"
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{
"taxonomic": "Balaenoptera bonaerensis",
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{
"taxonomic": "Balaenoptera bonaerensis",
"word": "pike whale"
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{
"taxonomic": "Globicephala spp.",
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{
"taxonomic": "Balaena mysticetus",
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{
"taxonomic": "Balaenoptera borealis",
"word": "pollack whale"
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{
"taxonomic": "Globicephala spp.",
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{
"taxonomic": "Balaenoptera physalus",
"word": "razorback whale"
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"english": "family Balaenidae",
"word": "right whale"
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{
"taxonomic": "Balaena mysticetus",
"word": "Russian whale"
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"taxonomic": "Eschrichtius gibbosus",
"word": "scrag whale"
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{
"taxonomic": "Balaenoptera borealis",
"word": "sei whale"
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{
"word": "social whale"
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"word": "sperm whale"
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"taxonomic": "Balaena mysticetus",
"word": "steeple-top whale"
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"taxonomic": "Balaenoptera musculus",
"word": "sulfur-bottom whale"
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{
"taxonomic": "Balaenoptera musculus",
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"word": "thick as a whale omelette"
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{
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{
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{
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{
"word": "whale-road"
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
"word": "whaleshit"
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{
"word": "whale shot"
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{
"word": "whalesong"
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{
"word": "whalespeak"
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{
"taxonomic": "Remora australis",
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{
"word": "whale tail"
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{
"word": "whale watch"
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{
"word": "whale watcher"
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{
"word": "whale watching"
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{
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{
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"source": "Thesaurus:whale",
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"source": "Thesaurus:whale",
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:whale",
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:whale",
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:whale",
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"source": "Thesaurus:whale",
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"word": "baleen"
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{
"word": "cachalot"
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{
"word": "cete"
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{
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{
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"ref": "2013 August 3, “Yesterday’s fuel”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847",
"text": "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.",
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"(by extension) Any species of Cetacea."
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"ref": "1920 September, “A Reformed Free Lance” (pseudonym), “Doctoring a Sick Encyclopedia”, in The Writer, Volume XXXII, Number 9, page 131",
"text": "It was a whale of a job. […] It took two months, and the fair blush of youth off my cheeks."
},
{
"ref": "1947 May 19, John Chamberlain, “Will Clayton and his Problem”, in Life, page 120",
"text": "But when it comes to his business life and business career, Will Clayton 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.",
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"ref": "2002, Kathleen Benson, Philip M. Kayal, Museum of the City of New York, A Community of Many Worlds: Arab Americans in New York City, Syracuse University Press →ISBN, page 54",
"text": "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."
},
{
"ref": "2006, June Skinner Sawyers, Read the Beatles: Classic and New Writings on the Beatles, Their Legacy, and Why They Still Matter, Penguin",
"text": "Busley Crowther in The New York Times called it “a whale of a comedy” even though he couldn't tell the four musicians apart except for Ringo (“the big-nosed one”).",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2013, Fred Holtby, Chris Lovie, ROWDY - THE STORY OF A POLICE DOG, Lulu.com, page 105",
"text": "They were having a whale of a time when a very stern looking shop assistant came over to tell them off.",
"type": "quotation"
}
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"Something, or someone, that is excellent."
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"en:Gambling"
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{
"ref": "2003, Jeff Wuorio, How to Buy and Sell (Just About) Everything",
"text": "These are often no-limit games as maximum bets cramp a whale’s style.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2004, Norm Clarke, Vegas Confidential: Norm! Sin City's Ace Insider 1,000 Naked Truths, Hot Spots and Cool Stuff",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2008, Deke Castleman, Whale Hunt in the Desert",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
}
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"In a casino, a person who routinely bets at the maximum limit allowable."
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"games"
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"English informal terms",
"English terms with quotations",
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],
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"ref": "2021 May 18, Alexis Goldstein, “These Invisible Whales Could Sink the Economy”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
"text": "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.",
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"finance"
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"ref": "2015, Jamie Madigan, Getting Gamers: The Psychology of Video Games and Their Impact on the People who Play Them",
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},
{
"ref": "2015, Omer Artun, Dominique Levin, Predictive Marketing: Easy Ways Every Marketer Can Use Customer Analytics and Big Data, John Wiley & Sons, page 99",
"text": "These different customer groups will be attracted to very different promotions. Your whales might enjoy receiving frequent emails from you and will purchase almost every time.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "2020, Lawrence Ingrassia, Billion Dollar Brand Club: How Dollar Shave Club, Warby Parker, and Other Disruptors Are Remaking What We Buy, Henry Holt and Company",
"text": "[…] gleaned from their activity: one group they dubbed “whales,” the highest-value customers, who bought shave cream and wipes as well as razors; […]",
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"word": "джейхэр"
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{
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"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "walvis"
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{
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"roman": "humpe",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "フンペ"
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{
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"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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{
"code": "ale",
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{
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"word": "юӈюӈ"
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{
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{
"code": "syc",
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"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
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"masculine"
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"word": "ܩܐܛܐ"
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{
"code": "hy",
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"roman": "ket",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "կետ"
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{
"code": "as",
"lang": "Assamese",
"roman": "timi",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "তিমি"
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{
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"roman": "timi mas",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "তিমি মাছ"
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{
"code": "ast",
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"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
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{
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"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "кит"
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{
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"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "balina"
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{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "kit"
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{
"code": "eu",
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"sense": "large sea mammal",
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{
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{
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"word": "kien paos"
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{
"code": "be",
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"roman": "kit",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "кіт"
},
{
"code": "bn",
"lang": "Bengali",
"roman": "timi",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "তিমি"
},
{
"code": "bth",
"lang": "Biatah Bidayuh",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "paus"
},
{
"code": "bi",
"lang": "Bislama",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "welfis"
},
{
"code": "br",
"lang": "Breton",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "balum"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "kit",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "кит"
},
{
"code": "my",
"lang": "Burmese",
"roman": "wela.nga:",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "ဝေလငါး"
},
{
"code": "my",
"lang": "Burmese",
"roman": "nga:wan",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "ငါးဝန်"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "balena"
},
{
"code": "ceb",
"lang": "Cebuano",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "balyena"
},
{
"code": "mel",
"lang": "Central Melanau",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "pauih"
},
{
"code": "cbk",
"lang": "Chavacano",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "ballena"
},
{
"code": "ce",
"lang": "Chechen",
"roman": "doq",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "докх"
},
{
"code": "chr",
"lang": "Cherokee",
"roman": "daqua",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "ᏓᏆ"
},
{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "鯨魚"
},
{
"code": "yue",
"english": "king⁴ jyu⁴",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "鲸鱼"
},
{
"code": "dng",
"lang": "Chinese",
"roman": "žinyü",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"Dungan"
],
"word": "җинйү"
},
{
"code": "cdo",
"lang": "Eastern Min Chinese",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "鯨魚"
},
{
"code": "cdo",
"lang": "Eastern Min Chinese",
"roman": "gĭng-ngṳ̀",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "鲸鱼"
},
{
"code": "hak",
"lang": "Hakka Chinese",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "鯨魚"
},
{
"code": "hak",
"lang": "Hakka Chinese",
"roman": "kîn-ǹg",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "鲸鱼"
},
{
"code": "nan-hbl",
"lang": "Chinese",
"roman": "zh-min-nan",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"Hokkien"
],
"word": "海翁"
},
{
"code": "nan-hbl",
"lang": "Chinese",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"Hokkien"
],
"word": "鯨魚"
},
{
"code": "nan-hbl",
"lang": "Chinese",
"roman": "kiang-hî",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"Hokkien"
],
"word": "鲸鱼"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "鯨魚"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "jīngyú",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "鲸鱼"
},
{
"code": "wuu",
"lang": "Wu Chinese",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "鯨魚"
},
{
"code": "wuu",
"lang": "Wu Chinese",
"roman": "³jjin-hhngg",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "鲸鱼"
},
{
"code": "ckt",
"lang": "Chukchi",
"roman": "rʺėv",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "ръэв"
},
{
"code": "ckt",
"lang": "Chukchi",
"roman": "rʺėvyt",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"plural"
],
"word": "ръэвыт"
},
{
"code": "kw",
"lang": "Cornish",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "morvil"
},
{
"code": "co",
"lang": "Corsican",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "balena"
},
{
"code": "crh",
"lang": "Crimean Tatar",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "kit"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "velryba"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "hval"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "walvis"
},
{
"code": "ovd",
"lang": "Elfdalian",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "wal"
},
{
"code": "egl",
"lang": "Emilian",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "baläṅna"
},
{
"code": "myv",
"lang": "Erzya",
"roman": "kit",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "кит"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "baleno"
},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "vaal"
},
{
"code": "eve",
"lang": "Even",
"roman": "kalim",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "калим"
},
{
"code": "evn",
"lang": "Evenki",
"roman": "kalim",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "калим"
},
{
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "hvalur"
},
{
"code": "fj",
"lang": "Fijian",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "tavuto"
},
{
"code": "fj",
"lang": "Fijian",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "tovuto"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "valas"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "baleine"
},
{
"code": "fro",
"lang": "Old French",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "balaine"
},
{
"code": "fro",
"lang": "Old French",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "baleine"
},
{
"code": "fur",
"lang": "Friulian",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "balene"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "balea"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "vešaṗi",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "ვეშაპი"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Wal"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "fálaina",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "φάλαινα"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "phállaina",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "φάλλαινα"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "kêtos",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "κῆτος"
},
{
"code": "kl",
"lang": "Greenlandic",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "arfeq"
},
{
"code": "pov",
"lang": "Guinea-Bissau Creole",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "baleia"
},
{
"code": "gu",
"lang": "Gujarati",
"roman": "vhel māchlī",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "વ્હેલ માછલી"
},
{
"code": "gu",
"lang": "Gujarati",
"roman": "timi",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "તિમિ"
},
{
"code": "hai",
"english": "any whale",
"lang": "Haida",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "kun"
},
{
"code": "hai",
"english": "beached whale",
"lang": "Haida",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "kung̱aawagan"
},
{
"code": "ht",
"lang": "Haitian Creole",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "balèn"
},
{
"code": "hur",
"lang": "Halkomelem",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "qwél:es"
},
{
"code": "haw",
"lang": "Hawaiian",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "koholā"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "livyatán",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "לווייתן \\ לִוְיָתָן"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "vhel",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "व्हेल"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "hvel",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "ह्वेल"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "timi",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "तिमि"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "timiṅgal",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "तिमिंगल"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "bálna"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "cet"
},
{
"code": "iba",
"lang": "Iban",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "ikan bam"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "hvalur"
},
{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "baleno"
},
{
"code": "ilo",
"lang": "Ilocano",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "balyena"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "ikan paus"
},
{
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "kiitta"
},
{
"code": "iu",
"lang": "Inuktitut",
"roman": "arfik",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "ᐊᕐᕕᒃ"
},
{
"code": "ik",
"lang": "Inupiaq",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "agviq"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "míol mór"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "balena"
},
{
"alt": "くじら",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kujira",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "鯨"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kujira",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "クジラ"
},
{
"alt": "いさな",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "isana",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"archaic"
],
"word": "勇魚"
},
{
"code": "jv",
"lang": "Javanese",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "lodan"
},
{
"code": "kbd",
"lang": "Kabardian",
"roman": "džej",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "джей"
},
{
"code": "xal",
"lang": "Kalmyk",
"roman": "tul zağsn",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "тул заһсн"
},
{
"code": "kn",
"lang": "Kannada",
"roman": "timiṅgila",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "ತಿಮಿಂಗಿಲ"
},
{
"code": "pam",
"lang": "Kapampangan",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "dambuala"
},
{
"code": "kmv",
"lang": "Karipúna Creole French",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "balén"
},
{
"code": "kyh",
"lang": "Karok",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "ishkêet"
},
{
"code": "kyh",
"lang": "Karok",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "ípar"
},
{
"code": "kju",
"lang": "Kashaya",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "pu·šu"
},
{
"code": "kk",
"lang": "Kazakh",
"roman": "kit",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "кит"
},
{
"code": "kk",
"lang": "Kazakh",
"roman": "nauan",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "науан"
},
{
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "pintɔɔng",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "ពិន្ទង"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "gorae",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "고래"
},
{
"code": "ckb",
"lang": "Central Kurdish",
"roman": "neheng",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "نەھەنگ"
},
{
"code": "kmr",
"lang": "Northern Kurdish",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "neheng"
},
{
"code": "kwk",
"lang": "Kwak'wala",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "g̱wa̱'ya̱m"
},
{
"code": "ky",
"lang": "Kyrgyz",
"roman": "kit",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "кит"
},
{
"code": "lad",
"lang": "Ladino",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "balena"
},
{
"code": "lo",
"lang": "Lao",
"roman": "wān",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "ວານ"
},
{
"code": "lo",
"lang": "Lao",
"roman": "bā lǣn",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "ບາແລນ"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "balaena"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "valis"
},
{
"code": "lij",
"lang": "Ligurian",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "balénn-a"
},
{
"code": "ln",
"lang": "Lingala",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "mondɛ́lɛ́"
},
{
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "banginis"
},
{
"code": "lmo",
"lang": "Lombard",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "balèna"
},
{
"code": "nds",
"lang": "Low German",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Waal"
},
{
"code": "lb",
"lang": "Luxembourgish",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Wal"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "kit",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "кит"
},
{
"code": "mg",
"lang": "Malagasy",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "trozona"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "ikan paus"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "paus"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "lodan"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "mina"
},
{
"code": "ml",
"lang": "Malayalam",
"roman": "timiṅgalaṁ",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "തിമിംഗലം"
},
{
"code": "mt",
"lang": "Maltese",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "balena"
},
{
"code": "mt",
"lang": "Maltese",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "baliena"
},
{
"code": "mnc",
"lang": "Manchu",
"roman": "boo nimaha",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "ᠪᠣᠣ ᠨᡳᠮᠠᡥᠠ"
},
{
"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "meeyl mooar"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "ika moana"
},
{
"code": "mr",
"lang": "Marathi",
"roman": "devmāsā",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "देवमासा"
},
{
"code": "mxe",
"lang": "Mele-Fila",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "tafurā"
},
{
"alt": "kʿy /kar/",
"code": "pal",
"lang": "Middle Persian",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "𐭪𐭥𐭩"
},
{
"code": "mdf",
"lang": "Moksha",
"roman": "kit",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "кит"
},
{
"code": "mn",
"lang": "Mongolian",
"roman": "xalim",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "халим"
},
{
"code": "mn",
"lang": "Mongolian",
"roman": "qalimu",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"Mongolian"
],
"word": "ᠬᠠᠯᠢᠮᠤ"
},
{
"code": "nah",
"lang": "Nahuatl",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "huēyimichin"
},
{
"code": "gld",
"lang": "Nanai",
"roman": "kalima",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "калима"
},
{
"code": "nv",
"lang": "Navajo",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "łóóʼtsoh"
},
{
"code": "ne",
"lang": "Nepali",
"roman": "timi",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "तिमि"
},
{
"code": "nay",
"lang": "Ngarrindjeri",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "kondoli"
},
{
"code": "niv",
"lang": "Nivkh",
"roman": "keŋ",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "кеӈ"
},
{
"code": "nuk",
"lang": "Nootka",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "ʔiiḥtuup"
},
{
"code": "se",
"lang": "Northern Sami",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "fális"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "hval"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kval"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kval"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "balena"
},
{
"code": "or",
"lang": "Odia",
"roman": "timi",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "ତିମି"
},
{
"code": "ryu",
"lang": "Okinawan",
"roman": "guzira",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "ぐじら"
},
{
"code": "cu",
"lang": "Church Slavic",
"roman": "kʹitŭ",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
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"masculine"
],
"word": "к҄итъ"
},
{
"code": "orv",
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"roman": "kitŭ",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "китъ"
},
{
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "hwæl"
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{
"code": "goh",
"lang": "Old High German",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "wal"
},
{
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "ada balığı",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "آطه بالغی"
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{
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"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "balena",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "بالنه"
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{
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"lang": "Palauan",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "medob"
},
{
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"lang": "Pangasinan",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "lampasot"
},
{
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],
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{
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"lang": "Persian",
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"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "نهنگ"
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"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "vâl",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "وال"
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"sense": "large sea mammal",
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],
"word": "balen-a"
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"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "Waulfesch"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "wieloryb"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "waleń"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "baleia"
},
{
"code": "rap",
"lang": "Rapa Nui",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "taʻoraha"
},
{
"code": "rgn",
"lang": "Romagnol",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "baléna"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "balenă"
},
{
"code": "rm",
"lang": "Romansch",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "balena"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kit",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "кит"
},
{
"code": "str",
"lang": "Saanich",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "ḰENES"
},
{
"code": "sm",
"lang": "Samoan",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "tafolā"
},
{
"code": "sa",
"lang": "Sanskrit",
"roman": "timi",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "तिमि"
},
{
"code": "sco",
"lang": "Scots",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "whaul"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "muc-mhara"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "кит"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "велриба"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
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"masculine"
],
"word": "kit"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
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"feminine"
],
"word": "velriba"
},
{
"code": "sei",
"lang": "Seri",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "ziix hapx coom"
},
{
"code": "sei",
"lang": "Seri",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "aasj"
},
{
"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "balena"
},
{
"code": "erg",
"lang": "Sie",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "tovura"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "veľryba"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "kit"
},
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"code": "dsb",
"lang": "Lower Sorbian",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "wjelryba"
},
{
"code": "hsb",
"lang": "Upper Sorbian",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "wjelryba"
},
{
"code": "st",
"lang": "Sotho",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "leruarua"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ballena"
},
{
"code": "sw",
"lang": "Swahili",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "nyangumi"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "val"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "balyena"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "tandayag"
},
{
"code": "ty",
"lang": "Tahitian",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "tohorā"
},
{
"code": "tg",
"lang": "Tajik",
"roman": "nahang",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "наҳанг"
},
{
"code": "tg",
"lang": "Tajik",
"roman": "kit",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "кит"
},
{
"code": "ta",
"lang": "Tamil",
"roman": "cilakkuṇam",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "சிலக்குணம்"
},
{
"code": "ta",
"lang": "Tamil",
"roman": "cilattiṟkaṭuku",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "சிலத்திற்கடுகு"
},
{
"code": "tt",
"lang": "Tatar",
"roman": "kit",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "кит"
},
{
"code": "te",
"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "timiṅgalaṁ",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "తిమింగలం"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "waan",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "วาฬ"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "bplaa-waan",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "ปลาวาฬ"
},
{
"code": "bo",
"lang": "Tibetan",
"roman": "chu srin",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "ཆུ་སྲིན"
},
{
"code": "ti",
"lang": "Tigrinya",
"roman": "ʿasa näbari",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "ዓሳ ነባሪ"
},
{
"code": "to",
"lang": "Tongan",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "tofuāʻa"
},
{
"code": "tn",
"lang": "Tswana",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "leruarua"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "balina"
},
{
"code": "tk",
"lang": "Turkmen",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "kit"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "kyt",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "кит"
},
{
"code": "ur",
"lang": "Urdu",
"roman": "vhel",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "وہیل"
},
{
"code": "ug",
"lang": "Uyghur",
"roman": "kit",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "كىت"
},
{
"code": "uz",
"lang": "Uzbek",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "kit"
},
{
"code": "vec",
"lang": "Venetian",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "bałéna"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "cá voi"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "cá ông"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "cá ông voi"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "kình ngư"
},
{
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "valüt"
},
{
"code": "wa",
"lang": "Walloon",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "ballaînn"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "morfil"
},
{
"code": "cy",
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"sense": "large sea mammal",
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{
"code": "bdr",
"lang": "West Coast Bajau",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "paus"
},
{
"code": "fy",
"lang": "West Frisian",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "walfisk"
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{
"code": "yag",
"lang": "Yámana",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"word": "wápisa"
},
{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "valfish",
"sense": "large sea mammal",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "וואַלפֿיש"
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"enpr": "hwāl"
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "hunt for whales",
"word": "捕鯨"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "bǔjīng",
"sense": "hunt for whales",
"word": "捕鲸"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "hunt for whales",
"word": "velrybařit"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "hunt for whales",
"word": "pyytää valaita"
}
],
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}
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"ref": "1852, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Why Mr Sellum disposed of the horse (chapter XIV in Works, volume 22)",
"text": "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; […]"
},
{
"ref": "1865 May, “Three Days at Camp Douglass”, in Our Young Folks: An Illustrated Magazine for Boys and Girls, volume I, number V, page 296",
"text": "\"I wouldn't let him. When you were a boy in your part of the country, and other boys told tales about you, what did you do with them?\" \"Whaled 'em like time, Captin',\" answered the man; \"and if ye'll only shet yer eyes to 't, I'll whale him.\" \"I can't allow such things in the prison,\" said the Captain; \"and besides, the fellow will be lame for a fortnight, and wouldn't be a match for you in that condition. Let him get limber, and then, if you don't whale him, I'll make you walk the ladder for a month.\" The result was, the conscript officer received a sound thrashing; and did not commit another act worthy of punishment for a week.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2004, Steve Frazee, Voices in the Hill",
"text": "They beat him down and kept whaling him after he was flat.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"text": "For quotations using this term, see Citations:whale."
}
],
"glosses": [
"To thrash, to flog, to beat vigorously or soundly."
],
"links": [
[
"thrash",
"thrash"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(slang, transitive) To thrash, to flog, to beat vigorously or soundly."
],
"tags": [
"slang",
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/weɪl/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ʍeɪl/",
"note": "without the wine–whine merger"
},
{
"rhymes": "-eɪl"
},
{
"homophone": "wail"
},
{
"homophone": "wale (in accents with the wine-whine merger)"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-whale.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f6/En-us-whale.ogg/En-us-whale.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f6/En-us-whale.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
},
{
"enpr": "wāl"
},
{
"enpr": "hwāl"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "bija",
"sense": "to beat vigorously",
"word": "бия"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "perdaša",
"sense": "to beat vigorously",
"word": "пердаша"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to beat vigorously",
"word": "verhauen"
}
],
"word": "whale"
}
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