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EAGLE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of various large keen-sighted diurnal birds of prey noted for their broad wings and strong soaring flight
Synonyms:
bird of Jove; eagle
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("eagle" is a kind of...):
bird of prey; raptor; raptorial bird (any of numerous carnivorous birds that hunt and kill other animals)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "eagle"):
eaglet (a young eagle)
Harpia harpyja; harpy; harpy eagle (large black-and-white crested eagle of tropical America)
Aquila chrysaetos; golden eagle (large eagle of mountainous regions of the northern hemisphere having a golden-brown head and neck)
Aquila rapax; tawny eagle (brownish eagle of Africa and parts of Asia)
American eagle; bald eagle; Haliaeetus leucocephalus (a large eagle of North America that has a white head and dark wings and body)
sea eagle (any of various large eagles that usually feed on fish)
Holonyms ("eagle" is a member of...):
Accipitridae; family Accipitridae (hawks; Old World vultures; kites; harriers; eagles)
Derivation:
eaglet (a young eagle)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An emblem representing power
Example:
the Roman eagle
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("eagle" is a kind of...):
allegory; emblem (a visible symbol representing an abstract idea)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A former gold coin in the United States worth 10 dollars
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("eagle" is a kind of...):
coin (a flat metal piece (usually a disc) used as money)
Sense 4
Meaning:
(golf) a score of two strokes under par on a hole
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("eagle" is a kind of...):
score (a number that expresses the accomplishment of a team or an individual in a game or contest)
Domain category:
golf; golf game (a game played on a large open course with 9 or 18 holes; the object is use as few strokes as possible in playing all the holes)
Derivation:
eagle (shoot in two strokes under par)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Shoot in two strokes under par
Classified under:
Verbs of fighting, athletic activities
Hypernyms (to "eagle" is one way to...):
hit; rack up; score; tally (gain points in a game)
Domain category:
golf; golf game (a game played on a large open course with 9 or 18 holes; the object is use as few strokes as possible in playing all the holes)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
eagle ((golf) a score of two strokes under par on a hole)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Shoot two strokes under par
Example:
She eagled the hole
Synonyms:
double birdie; eagle
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "eagle" is one way to...):
shoot (throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective)
Domain category:
golf; golf game (a game played on a large open course with 9 or 18 holes; the object is use as few strokes as possible in playing all the holes)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Context examples:
I did then, and do now suppose, that the eagle which flew away with my box was pursued by two or three others, and forced to let me drop, while he defended himself against the rest, who hoped to share in the prey.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
These animals include jaguars, Spix's macaws, harpy eagles, vinaceous-breasted amazons, crowned solitary eagles, hawksbill turtles, green turtles, tarantulas, Amazon false coral snakes, Brazilian green racer snakes, cream-colored woodpeckers, blue spiny starfish, sharks, seahorses, piaba fish, sawfish, bluefin tuna, brown howler monkeys.
(Over 300 animal species threatened in Bahia, Agência Brasil)
The clatter of waters, the scream of the eagle, and the howling of wolves the only sounds which broke upon the silence in that dreary and inhospitable region.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Ah, Edward,” cried his wife, “if you had seen our boy, like a caged eagle, beating against the bars, you would have helped to give him even so short a flight as this.”
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The children, full of pity, at once took tight hold of the little man, and pulled against the eagle so long that at last he let his booty go.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
The caged eagle, whose gold-ringed eyes cruelty has extinguished, might look as looked that sightless Samson.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
They congregated round me; the unstained snowy mountain-top, the glittering pinnacle, the pine woods, and ragged bare ravine, the eagle, soaring amidst the clouds—they all gathered round me and bade me be at peace.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
It was about studies and lessons, dealing with the rudiments of knowledge, and the schoolboyish tone of it conflicted with the big things that were stirring in him—with the grip upon life that was even then crooking his fingers like eagle's talons, with the cosmic thrills that made him ache, and with the inchoate consciousness of mastery of it all.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
To which he answered, that discoursing this matter with the sailors while I was asleep, one of them said, he had observed three eagles flying towards the north, but remarked nothing of their being larger than the usual size: which I suppose must be imputed to the great height they were at; and he could not guess the reason of my question.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Why, said Alleyne, a merlin is a bird of the same form as an eagle or a falcon.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
