whaling

English

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whaling

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈweɪlɪŋ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Homophones: wailing, waling
• Rhymes: -eɪlɪŋ

Noun

whaling (countable and uncountable, plural whalings)

1. The practice of hunting whales.
2. The practice of spotting whales.
3. (informal) A beating.
4. (computing) A form of highly personalized cyberattack that targets a senior business executive.
   • 2017, Prithviraj Gohel, Cyber Attacks: are we really secure?:

     Whaling attacks typically take specific responsibilities of these executive roles into consideration, using focused messaging to trick the victim.

Synonyms

• (spotting of whales): whale watching

Derived terms

• whaling station

Translations

practice of hunting whales

Arabic: صَيْد اَلْحِيتَان m (ṣayd al-ḥītān) Bulgarian: лов на китове m (lov na kitove) Chinese: Mandarin: 捕鯨 / 捕鲸 (zh) (bǔjīng) Czech: lov velryb m Danish: hvalfangst (da) c Dutch: walvisvaart (nl), walvisjacht (nl) f or m Esperanto: balenĉasado, balenkaptado Estonian: vaalapüük Finnish: valaanpyynti (fi) French: chasse à la baleine (fr) f German: Walfang (de) m Hebrew: צֵיד לִוְיְתָנִים (he) m (tseyd livyetanim) Hungarian: bálnavadászat (hu) Icelandic: hvalveiðar Italian: caccia alla balena f Japanese: 捕鯨 (ja) (ほげい, hogei) Korean: 고래잡이 (goraejabi) Macedonian: китолов m (kitolov) Norwegian: Bokmål: hvalfangst m Nynorsk: kvalfangst m Old English: hwælhuntoþ m Polish: wielorybnictwo (pl) n Portuguese: baleação f Russian: охо́та на кито́в f (oxóta na kitóv), китобо́йный про́мысел m (kitobójnyj prómysel) Serbo-Croatian: китолов m, kitolov (sh) m, лов на китове m, lov na kitove m Spanish: caza de ballenas f Swedish: valfångst c Vietnamese: săn bắt cá voi, sự đánh cá voi, nghề đánh cá voi Volapük: valütifan (vo)

whale watching — see whale watching

See also

• mallemaroking

Verb

whaling

1. present participle and gerund of whale