What's the difference between wale and whale?

Wale


Definition:

  • (n.) A streak or mark made on the skin by a rod or whip; a stripe; a wheal. See Wheal.
  • (n.) A ridge or streak rising above the surface, as of cloth; hence, the texture of cloth.
  • (n.) A timber bolted to a row of piles to secure them together and in position.
  • (n.) Certain sets or strakes of the outside planking of a vessel; as, the main wales, or the strakes of planking under the port sills of the gun deck; channel wales, or those along the spar deck, etc.
  • (n.) A wale knot, or wall knot.
  • (v. t.) To mark with wales, or stripes.
  • (v. t.) To choose; to select; specifically (Mining), to pick out the refuse of (coal) by hand, in order to clean it.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Wales international and Port Vale defender Clayton McDonald both admitted having sex with the victim, – McDonald was found not guilty of the same charge.
  • (2) Numerical results for the population of England and Wales are shown.
  • (3) Blood gas variables produced from a computed in vivo oxygen dissociation curve, PaeO2, P95 and C(a-x)O2, were introduced in the University Hospital of Wales in 1986.
  • (4) Any party or witness is entitled to use Welsh in any magistrates court in Wales without prior notice.
  • (5) It may not point to independence – nor, given that large swaths of Wales remain firmly dominated by Labour, mean any huge advance for Plaid Cymru.
  • (6) Harry was 12 years old when Diana, Princess of Wales, was killed in a car crash but said it was not until his late 20s, after two years of “total chaos”, that he processed the grief.
  • (7) Hospitals in Wales collected £5.4m in parking charges in 2006-07 and hospitals in England took more than £100m.
  • (8) So Fifa left that group out and went ahead with the draw – according to legend, plucking names from the Jules Rimet trophy itself – and, after Belgium were chosen but decided not to participate, Wales came out next.
  • (9) Bringing the Prince of Wales into service “will involve very considerable additional costs, additional manpower, extra aircraft and the considerable amount of support and protection needed to make it viable”, say the MPs.
  • (10) But he won’t call.” Allardyce is also cynical about an offer from Swansea to compensate around 300 Sunderland fans who had booked trips to Wales before the date change.
  • (11) The bill will create a six-month time limit for family courts in England and Wales to reach decisions on whether children should be taken into care and will require the court to take into account the impact of delays on the child.
  • (12) There were a record 354 deaths in prisons in England and Wales in 2016.
  • (13) 31 October TB met the Prince of Wales after he took Prince William hunting.
  • (14) The annual number of confirmed cases of Legionnaires' disease in both Nottingham, and England and Wales, reached a peak in 1980 and has since declined.
  • (15) A comprehensive analysis of repeat rates has been obtained from an observational study of radiological practice in diagnostic X-ray departments throughout Wales.
  • (16) The most recent figures show 3,046 confirmed cases in England and Wales, compared with 1,669 cases last winter.
  • (17) In north Wales, Llandudno town council has had to cancel its annual display at short notice after it was told it would have to pay at least £22,000 to insure the wonderful Victorian pier in case of a fire.
  • (18) When he was prime minister Tony Blair asked Peter Mandelson to tell the Prince of Wales to stop his "unhelpful" attempts to influence policy on GM and Mandelson accused him of being "anti-scientific and irresponsible".
  • (19) Others, like eight-year-old Stan – who was playing football with his mates in a corner of the beer-soaked field, has only good memories of Wales.
  • (20) A spokesperson for Plaid Cymru said: “On 5 May, Wales chose not to elect one single party to govern Wales with a majority.

Whale


Definition:

  • (n.) Any aquatic mammal of the order Cetacea, especially any one of the large species, some of which become nearly one hundred feet long. Whales are hunted chiefly for their oil and baleen, or whalebone.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A sperm whale myoglobin gene containing multiple unique restriction sites has been constructed in pUC 18 by sequential assembly of chemically synthesized oligonucleotide fragments.
  • (2) Japan needs to sell whale meat at a competitive price, similar to that of pork or chicken, and to do that it needs to increase its annual catch."
  • (3) Australia is hoping to put a permanent end to Japan's annual slaughter of hundreds of whales in the Southern Ocean, in a landmark legal challenge that begins this week.
  • (4) Earlier today Liz Sandeman, a marine mammal medic who went out in a lifeboat to examine the whale, said: "It looks quite healthy and quite relaxed.
  • (5) If anything, we empathise with the whales more than the humans because they're treated like animals.
  • (6) In 2011, a young sperm whale was found floating dead off the Greek island of Mykonos.
  • (7) At higher pH, this signal changes in a way different from that observed for whale myoglobin.
  • (8) Campbell said that if all signatories to the convention killed as many minke whales as Japan does, then more than 83,000 would be slaughtered in the Southern Ocean every year.
  • (9) Crystals have been grown of "sperm whale" myoglobin produced in Escherichia coli from a synthetic gene and the structure has been solved to 1.9 A resolution.
  • (10) Next year they will target 50 fin whales, 50 endangered humpbacks, and another 925 minkes.
  • (11) Crystalline myoglobin was isolated from the skeletal muscle of the finback whale and fractionated, in its cyanmet form, into nine components (I-IX) by chromatography on CM-cellulose.
  • (12) While in detention in Tokyo he indicated he no longer wished to take part in anti-whaling activities.
  • (13) Between June 20 and the end of August, whalers in Wadaura and three other villages will be permitted to catch 66 Baird's beaked whales that, because of their relatively small size, are not covered by the 1986 International Whaling Commission's ban on commercial hunting.
  • (14) Although Migaloo’s rough itinerary can be figured out, it is still a lucky whale watcher who spots him, Oskar Peterson, from the White Whale Research Centre , told Guardian Australia.
  • (15) Japan should undertake some DNA research in Japanese fish markets, where endangered whales - including orcas and humpbacks - are being sold as minke whales.
  • (16) The Institute of Cetacean Research, a quasi-governmental body that oversees the hunts, had hoped to use sales from the meat to cover the costs of the whaling fleet's expeditions, she said.
  • (17) 3.06pm BST More scientific reaction Ken Collins, a senior research fellow at the University of Southampton, said there was no justification for using lethal methods for researching whales.
  • (18) Ben Lewis (@ben_lewis10) The 'vibe' of the #ICJ decision so far- #Whaling can be done for scientific research... but Japan doing on too big a scale.
  • (19) Occurrence of BaP adducts in the brain of three whales of this population coincides with the high incidence of tumours.
  • (20) Only one bryde's whale sample was available for investigation.

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