different between cruise vs whaler

English

Alternative forms

• cruize

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch kruisen (“cross, sail around”), from kruis (“cross”), from Middle Dutch cruce, from Latin crux.

Pronunciation

• enPR: kro?oz, IPA^(key): /k?u?z/
• Homophone: crews
• Rhymes: -u?z

Noun

cruise (plural cruises)

1. A sea or lake voyage, especially one taken for pleasure.
2. (aeronautics) Portion of aircraft travel at a constant airspeed and altitude between ascent and descent phases.
3. (US, military, informal) A period spent in the Marine Corps.
   • 1919, United States. Marine Corps, Recruiters' Bulletin (page 16)

     I ended my cruise of four years in the Marine Corps at the first Officers' Training Camp for enlisted men at Quantico […]

   • 2015, George Barnett, Andy Barnett, George Barnett, Marine Corps Commandant: A Memoir, 1877-1923

     The New Orleans had to have numerous alterations made, and as the Chicago was just about going into commission, I was ordered to that ship to finish my cruise.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

cruise (third-person singular simple present cruises, present participle cruising, simple past and past participle cruised)

1. (intransitive) To sail about, especially for pleasure.

   • He and Gerald usually challenged the rollers in a sponson canoe when Gerald was there for the weekend; or, when Lansing came down, the two took long swims seaward or cruised about in Gerald's dory, clad in their swimming-suits; and Selwyn's youth became renewed in a manner almost ridiculous, […].

2. (intransitive) To travel at constant speed for maximum operating efficiency.
3. (transitive) To move about an area leisurely in the hope of discovering something, or looking for custom.
4. (transitive, intransitive, forestry) To inspect (forest land) for the purpose of estimating the quantity of lumber it will yield.
5. (transitive, colloquial) To actively seek a romantic partner or casual sexual partner by moving about a particular area; to troll.
6. (intransitive, child development) To walk while holding on to an object (stage in development of ambulation, typically occurring at 10 months).
7. (intransitive, sports) To win easily and convincingly.

Derived terms

• beach cruiser
• cruiser
• cruising for a bruising

Descendants

• ? Dutch: cruisen, cruise

Translations

Anagrams

• crusie, curies

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English cruise, from Dutch kruisen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kru?s/
• Hyphenation: cruise
• Rhymes: -u?s

Noun

cruise m (plural cruises, diminutive cruiseje n)

1. cruise

Derived terms

• cruiseboot
• cruisereis
• cruiseschip

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Dutch kruisen, via English cruise

Noun

cruise n (definite singular cruiset, indefinite plural cruise, definite plural cruisa or cruisene)

1. a cruise

Derived terms

• cruiseskip

References

• “cruise” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Dutch kruisen, via English cruise

Noun

cruise n (definite singular cruiset, indefinite plural cruise, definite plural cruisa)

1. a cruise

Derived terms

• cruiseskip

References

• “cruise” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

English

Etymology

whale +? -er

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?we?l?/
• (General American) enPR: w??l?r, IPA^(key): /?we?l?/
• (without the wine–whine merger, rhotic) enPR: hw??l?r, IPA^(key): /?hwe?l?/
• (without the wine–whine merger, non-rhotic) enPR: hw??l?, IPA^(key): /?hwe?l?/
• Rhymes: -e?l?(?)
• Homophone: wailer (in accents with the wine-whine merger)

Noun

whaler (plural whalers)

1. One who hunts whales; a person employed in the whaling industry.
   • 1890, Century Illustrated Magazine, XL, 511,

     For a whaler?s wife to have been “?round the Cape” half a dozen times, or even more, was nothing extraordinary.

   • 1986 June 5, Jeremy Cherfas, What price whales?, New Scientist, page 36,

     Whalers have always overexploited their stocks, driving them to commercial extinction. […] American whalers, operating at first from the coast and later in sea-going boats, took about 200 000 right whales in addition to humpbacks and grays.

   • 2001, Lawrence J. Cunningham, Janice J. Beaty, A History of Guam, page 170,

     The whalers brought a new way of life. They brought a chance for travel. Many Chamorros traveled to London and the United States. Over eight hundred Chamorro whalers settled in Honolulu.

2. A seagoing vessel used for hunting whales.
   • 1863, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Sylvia?s Lovers, v.

     But o? Thursday t? Resolution, first whaler back this season, came in port.

   • 1995, Robert F. Rogers, Destiny?s Landfall: A History of Guam, page 98,

     The log of the Emily Morgan, an American whaler that visited Guam many times, described Spanish control: […] .

   • 2001, Arabella McIntyre-Brown, Liverpool: The First 1,000 years, page 79,

     But the Golden Lion was ambushed by a Naval frigate thinking that a whaler?s crew would be useful pressed men. The whaler?s crew didn?t agree, and there was a bloody skirmish on shore between the press gang and the crew of the Golden Lion which caused such a scandal that from then on whalers? men were exempt from conscription.

3. One who whales (flogs or beats).
4. (slang) A large, strong person.
5. (slang) Something of unusually great size, a whopper, a whacker.
6. (Australia) Any shark of the family Carcharhinidae; a requiem shark.
   • 1997, John Ernest Randall, Gerald R Allen, Roger C. Steene, Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef, 2nd Edition, page 17,

     The whalers (or requiem sharks) are one of the largest and best known family of sharks. Worldwide there are 48 species in 12 genera. However, relatively few species are on the Great Barrier Reef.

   • 2003, Mark Thornley, Veda Dante, Peter Wilson, Action Guide: Surfing Australia, Tuttle Publishing, HK, page 264,

     The whaler shark family, which includes the grey reef shark (Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos),silvertip (Carcharhinus albimarginatus), bull shark (Carcharhinus leucas) and bronze whaler (Carcharhinus brachyurus) are fast moving, territorial and have bitten divers snd surfers in the past.

   • 2008, Alan Murphy, Justin Flynn, Olivia Pozzan, Paul Harding, Queensland & the Great Barrier Reef, 5th Edition, Lonely Planet, page 219,

     You can also take a dip with lemon, whaler and other nonpredatory sharks.

7. (Australian slang, dated) A sundowner; one who cruises about.
   • 1893 August 12, Sydney Morning Herald,

     the nomad, “the whaler,” it is who will find the new order hostile to his vested interest of doing nothing.

Derived terms

• whaler's delight

Translations

References

• whaler in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914) , “whaler”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, volume V (Simular–Z), revised edition, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., OCLC 1078064371.
• E. E. Morris, Australian English, 1898

Anagrams

• Wahler