whale

balina

Denizde yaşayan, hava soluyan ve yavrularını sütle besleyen çok büyük hayvan.

Basit İngilizce açıklama: A very large animal that lives in the sea, breathes air, and feeds its young with milk.

• We saw a whale from the boat.
• Whales come to the surface to breathe.
• A blue whale can grow very large.

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: blue whale, humpback whale, whale watching

balinagil

Büyük balinaları, yunusları ve musurları kapsayan deniz memelileri grubundan herhangi bir hayvan.

Basit İngilizce açıklama: Any animal in the sea mammal group that includes large whales, dolphins, and porpoises.

• In this classification, a dolphin is a whale.
• Toothed whales include porpoises and dolphins.
• Scientists group these whale species by their ancestry.

Eş anlamlılar: cetacean

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: toothed whale, whale species, whale family

balina avlamak

Yağını, etini veya başka ürünlerini elde etmek için balina avlamak.

Basit İngilizce açıklama: To hunt large sea mammals for their oil, meat, or other products.

• The crew whaled in northern waters.
• Those ships used to whale for oil.
• They no longer whale commercially.

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: whale commercially, whale offshore, whale for oil

dövmek, pataklamak

Birine veya bir şeye tekrar tekrar sertçe vurmak.

Basit İngilizce açıklama: To hit someone or something hard many times.

• He whaled on the bag.
• The attacker whaled on him with both fists.
• She was whaling on the stuck door with a hammer.

Nasıl kullanılır: whale on someone/something (He began to whale on the punching bag.)

Eş anlamlılar: beat, pound, thrash

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: whale on someone, whale on something