CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO FLENSE
PRESENT
Present
I flense
you flense
he/she/it flenses
we flense
you flense
they flense
Present continuous
I am flensing
you are flensing
he/she/it is flensing
we are flensing
you are flensing
they are flensing
Present perfect
I have flensed
you have flensed
he/she/it has flensed
we have flensed
you have flensed
they have flensed
Present perfect continuous
I have been flensing
you have been flensing
he/she/it has been flensing
we have been flensing
you have been flensing
they have been flensing
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The
present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.
PAST
Past
I flensed
you flensed
he/she/it flensed
we flensed
you flensed
they flensed
Past continuous
I was flensing
you were flensing
he/she/it was flensing
we were flensing
you were flensing
they were flensing
Past perfect
I had flensed
you had flensed
he/she/it had flensed
we had flensed
you had flensed
they had flensed
Past perfect continuous
I had been flensing
you had been flensing
he/she/it had been flensing
we had been flensing
you had been flensing
they had been flensing
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,
FUTURE
Future
I will flense
you will flense
he/she/it will flense
we will flense
you will flense
they will flense
Future continuous
I will be flensing
you will be flensing
he/she/it will be flensing
we will be flensing
you will be flensing
they will be flensing
Future perfect
I will have flensed
you will have flensed
he/she/it will have flensed
we will have flensed
you will have flensed
they will have flensed
Future perfect continuous
I will have been flensing
you will have been flensing
he/she/it will have been flensing
we will have been flensing
you will have been flensing
they will have been flensing
The
future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.
CONDITIONAL
Conditional
I would flense
you would flense
he/she/it would flense
we would flense
you would flense
they would flense
Conditional continuous
I would be flensing
you would be flensing
he/she/it would be flensing
we would be flensing
you would be flensing
they would be flensing
Conditional perfect
I would have flense
you would have flense
he/she/it would have flense
we would have flense
you would have flense
they would have flense
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been flensing
you would have been flensing
he/she/it would have been flensing
we would have been flensing
you would have been flensing
they would have been flensing
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.
IMPERATIVE
Imperative
you flense
we let´s flense
you flense
The
imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Present Participle
flensing
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The
present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The
past participle shows the action after completion.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FLENSE»
Discover the use of
flense in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
flense and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Waste Fix: Seizures of the Sacred from Upton Sinclair to ...
However, if I am to look unflinchingly at the matter of flinching, I must also copy
out the fact that slinking around in back of the word "flinch" is the word "flense," as
Webster's definition of the latter word makes clear: "flense or flinch [D flensen or ...
2
Laws of Early Iceland: The Codex Regius of Grágás with ...
518) As soon as the man has been sent, then it is lawful for him to flense the
whale forthwith, and similarly for all who flense it with his accord, and flense it on
a quarter-share basis, so that these flensers get a fourth part, until the owner of
the ...
I am Flense. Though not the leader of this picturesque party, I am what you might
call the figurehead.' Flense's lack of lips didn't seem to affect his speech and
Blaklok was amazed by how he managed to pronounce hard consonants without
...
4
Comparative Chukotko-Kamchatkan Dictionary
... strange', lavalan 'different', lavak 'separately', also W Ivalan 'mean, lowly, nasty';
note also xe-4va4 'wrong' (with layi-) and Sed. e4aq 'as if in Moll] PCK aelva- '
flense' C: elwa- 'flense (carcass)' K- A: alv(a)- 'flense' I: alf4e-s 'flense' [with -aet- ...
Michael D. Fortescue, 2005
5
Oxford American Large Print Dictionary
flense /flens/ (also flench /flenCH/) v. slice or strip the skin or fat from (a carcass,
esp. that of a whale). flesh /fleSH/ n. 1 soft, esp. muscular, substance between the
skin and bones of an animal or human. 2 the body as opposed to the mind or ...
Oxford University Press, 2008
6
Concise English Dictionary
flench flench, flense flens, flinch flinch, vs.t. to cut up the blubber of, as a whale: to
flay. [Dan. flense.] flesh flesh, n. muscular tissue: all the living substance of the
body of similar composition to muscle: the soft substance that covers the bones of
...
7
Southernmost People of Greenland -- Dialects and Memories: ...
How do you flense the hooded seal? JI: I flense it quickly, hee, hee, hee... cut off
the rear flippers, cut an arch from throat to rear flippers, cut off the blubber from
the meat, take the skin and scrape all blubber, press down the ribs and then what
...
8
Cooking Bachelor Style: Life Beyond the Freezer Section
Her English was really bad, but her response translated something like, “Flense
test! Hew der yew calit Flense test? Dis is Finnish test. Da Flense hast nuthikg te
du weth dis test.” Her tirade went on for twenty-two minutes. I didn't get a whole ...
9
The Antarctic Dictionary: A Complete Guide to Antarctic English
[Variant of flense from the Norwegian flense (which means the same as this). '
Flense' is recorded later than below (from 1814: NOED) in Arctic use.] To remove
the blubber from a seal or whale in order to extract the oil. 1793 Colnett, Captain
...
10
Universal dictionary of the English language: a new and ...
The chief masters of the school were Mf1 ruling, Weyden, Rubens, Van- dyck,
Snyder*, and the younger Teniers. flench, flense, v.t. \Daxi. flense ; Dut vlensen.}
To strip the blubber from : as, To flense a whale. Micndc. 1 flennod. ' [A.8.
Robert Hunter, Charles Morris, 1898
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FLENSE»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
flense is used in the context of the following news items.
How to Live Within a Black Body
In Between the World and Me, Coates is characteristically sharp, but letter-writing has freed him to flense his subject: How to be a black man in ... «The New Republic, Jul 15»
Area softball players on losing end of dramatic all-star game
... Walsh of West Ranch, who worked the count to full and on the eighth pitch of the at-bat powered a grand slam over the left-field flense. «Burbank Leader, Jun 15»
The fog of cyber warfare: Hacked if you do, hacked if you don't
Kim Jong-un had threatened to flense every baby in America unless we immediately reconnected him to lolcats.com, and our leaders were in a ... «InfoWorld, Jan 15»
What If We Made 2015 the Year of Poking Fun at Conservatives?
Thomas Mulcair, who in Question Period can flense the blubber off Harper like a harpooned whale, should have apprenticed on the standup ... «TheTyee.ca, Jan 15»
Whale songs: shanties drag mysteries of whaling life back from the …
Hunters flense a baleine whale at the great whaling station, Christiania (Oslo). Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images. Ironically, this ... «The Guardian, Nov 14»
Rocky Harbour's rotting whale to be cut up by MUN: mayor
... said Nicolle, adding that crews are expected to arrive in Rocky Harbour later this week to flense the whale and prepare its bones for shipping. «CBC.ca, May 14»
Museum team still working on removing flesh from first whale carcass
Fruci said the group won't begin to flense the second whale until “maybe Tuesday.” Unlike the first whale, which had to be towed to Woody ... «Western Star, May 14»
The right's sad Obamacare transition: As good news rolls in, what to …
The insurance representatives “refused to go along with” Republican plans to publicly flense the ACA, noted the New York Times, “and ... «Salon, May 14»
How crews will move massive blue whale carcasses rotting in …
“We'll flense the whales (a process of removing skin and blubber) like they did on old whaling ships. Then we'll disarticulate the skeleton so we ... «CTV News, May 14»
Dead pilot whale found on Searsport beach
Then they will flense its flesh down to the skeleton and bury that in a compost pile. Then, after a few months, the skeleton should be cleaned ... «Bangor Daily News, Apr 14»
