porpoise

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Far easier to read the GitLab CI files (which yes of course were also necessary and served a different porpoise).

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Any small cetacean of the family Phocoenidae, related to dolphins and whales.

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noun

Any small cetacean of the family Phocoenidae, related to dolphins and whales.

noun

(Canada, US, imprecisely) Any small dolphin.

verb

(intransitive) Said of an air-breathing aquatic animal such as a porpoise or penguin: To repeatedly jump out of the water to take a breath and dive back in a continuous motion.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for porpoise.

noun

Any small cetacean of the family Phocoenidae, related to dolphins and whales.

noun

(Canada, US, imprecisely) Any small dolphin.

verb

(intransitive) Said of an air-breathing aquatic animal such as a porpoise or penguin: To repeatedly jump out of the water to take a breath and dive back in a continuous motion.

verb

(intransitive) Said of an aircraft: to make a series of plunges when taking off or landing; or of a watercraft: to successively plunge up and down in the water.

Example sentences

Far easier to read the GitLab CI files (which yes of course were also necessary and served a different porpoise).

As I mentioned on Twitter, if you want a free account but can't get around the paywall, just know that the paywall is extremely leaky on porpoise...

> just know that the paywall is extremely leaky on porpoise...

Some comedians like Norm McDonald (moth joke, youthful porpoise joke) use dozens of straight line thoughts with one random one at the end.

I can't trust anyone who spells 'purpose' as 'porpoise' even if English isn't his first language.

Pretty soon we may find ourselves introducing autocorrect errors like that on porpoise, to try to show we're not AI.

But if that's the case, it sure changes my porpoise-sized travel habits.

The pod located some porpoise and hunted them with encirclement and charges.

The Delphinidae family also includes the porpoise, beluga whale, and narwhal.

Yet these whales just don't see these porpoise as prey.

The original joke I think is a play on porpoise and purpose.

I then had to google what the difference between a porpoise and a dolphin was because I genuinely thought porpoises looked much more like manatees.

Quote examples

Keep in mind, Orcas don’t kill us either, not just as a food >"They're killing the porpoise, it's already dead or dying.

A description like a "A porpoise seated at a desk writing a letter" will reliably produce (terrible) drawings consisting of parts corresponding to the porpoise, parts corresponding to the desk, and parts corresponding to the letter, with the arrangement of the parts roughly corresponding to the description.

"Porpoise" and "fish" are our own labels, and we may choose to define them based off of observable characteristics or behaviors.

I don’t know if there has been independent comparison of the faster tunneling speed, etc, but the ability of Prufrock to “porpoise” (directly launch) is an innovation that I can’t find any mention of in TBM before 2017.

Proper noun examples

Porpoise hi:) thanks for the chance to expand on this, I really appreciate that today:) I agree with your point, and it's a goodun: how can you action authenticity if you don't know what it is?