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harpoon-like

Meaning of "harpoon-like" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF HARPOON-LIKE

hɑːˈpuːnˌlaɪk


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HARPOON-LIKE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Harpoon-Like is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES HARPOON-LIKE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of harpoon-like in the English dictionary

The definition of harpoon-like in the dictionary is like a barbed missile attached to a long cord and hurled or fired from a gun when hunting whales, etc.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HARPOON-LIKE

balloon-like · barnlike · beanlike · cartoonlike · dawnlike · dunelike · faunlike · fawnlike · fernlike · hornlike · human-like · machine-like · moonlike · runelike · screenlike · stone-like · sunlike · thornlike · unqueenlike · urnlike

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HARPOON-LIKE

harp · harp seal · Harper · Harper´s Ferry · harpies · harpin · harpings · harpins · harpist · harpoon · harpooneer · harpooner · harpsichord · harpsichordist · harpy · harpy eagle · harpylike · harquebus · harquebuse · harquebusier

WORDS THAT END LIKE HARPOON-LIKE

bird-like · cell-like · cloth-like · daughter-like · dislike · guitar-like · hammer-like · jelly-like · jewel-like · like-for-like · metal-like · oil-like · scale-like · shell-like · soul-like · summer-like · tail-like · village-like · virus-like · water-like · woman-like

Synonyms and antonyms of harpoon-like in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «harpoon-like» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF HARPOON-LIKE

Find out the translation of harpoon-like to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of harpoon-like from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «harpoon-like» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

鱼叉状
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

- arpón
570 millions of speakers
en

English

harpoon-like
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

भाला की तरह
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مثل الحربة
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

гарпун , как
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

arpão -like
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

টেটা মত
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

harpon
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Seperti tempuling
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Harpune - wie
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

銛のような
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

작살 같은
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Cendhak
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

harpoon - như
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

தூண்டில் போன்ற
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

हापूस सारखी
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

zıpkın benzeri
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

arpione -like
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

jak harpun
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

гарпун , як
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

- harpon ca
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

καμάκι - όπως
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

harpoen -agtige
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

harpunliknande
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

harpunlignende
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of harpoon-like

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about harpoon-like

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HARPOON-LIKE»

Discover the use of harpoon-like in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to harpoon-like and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Night of the Sharks
“You know, there's a great deal of work that goes into a harpoon like this—two offset barbs—a full two inches across, with a shaft. . .I'd say, almost three quarters of an inch in diameter. Then we need to shape the conical socket and fire-weld it  ...
Kenneth Richard Stark, 2002
2
Across Atlantic Ice: The Origin of America's Clovis Culture
They could, however, have been foreshafts that were part of composite, harpoon- like weapons. The rounded, tapered tip could have been inserted into a flanged, hollowed-out harpoon-like socket, into whose other end a stone point would ...
Dennis J. Stanford, Bruce A. Bradley, 2012
3
An Arctic Man: The Classic Account of Sixty-five Years in ...
I sent it out to Winnipeg so they could put it in the museum, and also to find out how old it was because the people said that they themselves didn't make a harpoon like that for hunting walrus. We got a report back that it was the sort of harpoon ...
Ernie Lyall, 2011
4
Moby Dick
... toilet was soon achieved, and he proudly marched out of the room, wrapped up in his great pilot monkey-jacket, and sporting his harpoon like a marshal's baton. CHAPTER V. BREAKFAST. I Quickly followed suit, and descending into the ...
Herman Melville, 1892
5
Sensuous Seas: Tales of a Marine Biologist
A. Cone snail, Conus geographus, attacking a goby with its venomous harpoon- like radula. Cone snail shell to 10 inches long, glossy with brown blotches. i. Approach: the goby shows no fear at the slow-motion approach. ii. Attack: the ...
Eugene H. Kaplan, 2006
6
The Legend of Coren
It dispatches harpoon-like sickles whose sole purposes are to zero in and rip her apart. Like the Angels that witness from above, Coren takes flight and dodges the first, which smacks into the ground. Coren swiftly dodges the second and cuts ...
TERRY LEE SMITH JR., 2014
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Perspectives in Molecular Toxinology
The fish is tethered by the barbed, harpoon-like tooth and drawn into the mouth. Bottom: The geography cone. Conns geographm has its siphon extended and its rostrum (mouth) wide open with the proboscis contracted within the snail's mouth  ...
A. Ménez, 2002
8
Captain Cat and the Umbrella Kid: The Greed of GoldFever & ...
A harpoon like that would have no effect whatsoever. The Beast is in a state halfway between ectoplasmic and solid. Now, if the harpoon were of pure silver . . .” “That's what ye say!” growled Mr Ribbs. “That there Beast were solid enough to  ...
Paul Shaw, 2014
9
Photo-Induced Metastability in Amorphous Semiconductors
This possibility is very attractive because in such a way a really non-breaking mechanism of the bond switching – the lowest-energy one – can be realized in the form of directed percolation of one-electron excitations. Thus, the harpoon- like ...
Alexander V. Kolobov, 2006
10
Warrior Brothers
... covered harpoon like a club, knocking a weapon out of the hands of one guard, then knocking the other guard unconscious. Tossing the harpoon toward Accabo, Cody shouted, “Guard him!” while pounding the other guard with his fists.
Erik Gordon Bainbridge, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HARPOON-LIKE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term harpoon-like is used in the context of the following news items.
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It's a Big World: Not many good reasons to avoid a Calaveras visit …
Another pretty face with a deadly harpoon-like tooth that can penetrate a wet suit and cause, yes, you guessed it, death. Once I had read all of ... «Calaveras Enterprise, Jul 15»
2
Study shows defensive poison in cone snails repurposed for use in …
... the researchers explain, is made mostly of peptides called conotoxins—it causes harm to other creatures after a harpoon-like appendage is ... «Phys.Org, Jul 15»
3
Shark Week 2015 begins Sunday: We'll soon know if Discovery …
He pierces its dorsal fin with the tip of a harpoon-like pole, the first step in fastening a tag. Big Daddy reacts by repeatedly trying to leap into the ... «National Post, Jul 15»
4
Scientists baffled by tiny sea creature which uses a human-like eye …
The organisms are called warnowiids and are known to science, often using harpoon-like structures to hunt plankton prey, which is often ... «Mirror.co.uk, Jul 15»
5
Ticks are out for blood after a long winter.
“They have a harpoon-like mouth part,” Pollack said. There are many species of tick, but the deer tick and the dog tick are the most common in ... «Wicked Local Littleton, Jun 15»
6
Mysterious moon may harbor life
... Philae skipped across the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko when the lander's harpoon-like anchoring mechanism failed. «WTAE Pittsburgh, Jun 15»
7
Will Discovery Channel's Shark Week continue to swim in strange …
He pierces its dorsal fin with the tip of a harpoon-like pole, the first step in fastening a tag. Big Daddy reacts by repeatedly trying to leap into the ... «Washington Post, Jun 15»
8
Lost comet lander awakes, sends 'hello' from space
... Philae skipped across the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko when the lander's harpoon-like anchoring mechanism failed. «Fox 28, Jun 15»
9
Reward offered in fatal sea lion stabbing case
On May 26, the sea lion was rescued from the harbor near Oxnard with a harpoon-like blade impaled in its side. Close to 600 pounds, the sea ... «Ventura County Star, Jun 15»
10
Reporter attacked by cicadas during video shoot
... Philae skipped across the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko when the lander's harpoon-like anchoring mechanism failed. «WJXT Jacksonville, Jun 15»
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