a porpoise

См. также в других словарях:

• Porpoise-Klasse (1933) — Porpoise Klasse Allgemeine Daten Schiffstyp …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• Porpoise Bay, Antarctica — Porpoise Bay (coord|66|30|S|128|30|E|) is an ice filled embayment about 90 miles wide indenting the coast of Antarctica between Cape Goodenough and Cape Morse. The United States Exploring Expedition (1838 42) under Charles Wilkes applied the name …   Wikipedia

• Porpoise — Por poise, n. [OE. porpeys, OF. porpeis, literally, hog fish, from L. porcus swine + piscis fish. See {Pork}, and {Fish}.] 1. (Zo[ o]l.) Any small cetacean of the genus {Phoc[ae]na}, especially {Phoc[ae]na communis}, or {Phoc[ae]na phoc[ae]na},… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Porpoise class submarine — can refer to:* The British Grampus class of six submarines launched in the 1930s is sometimes called the Porpoise class * The British Porpoise class of eight submarines launched in the 1950s * The United States Porpoise class of ten submarines… …   Wikipedia

• Porpoise (disambiguation) — Porpoise may refer to: *Porpoise, a marine mammal *Porpoise (make of scuba gear) *Porpoise, a class of submarines …   Wikipedia

• Porpoise Bay — can refer to: *Porpoise Bay, Antarctica *Porpoise Bay, New Zealand *Porpoise Bay Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada …   Wikipedia

• Porpoise Bay Provincial Park — is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada.External links* [http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/bcparks/explore/parkpgs/porpoise.html BC Parks Web Page] * [http://www.johnharveyphoto.com/PorpoiseBay/ Camping at Porpoise Bay] …   Wikipedia

• Porpoise Bay, New Zealand — Porpoise Bay is located in the Catlins on the southern coast of New Zealand s South Island. The bay sweeps gently from North Head, at the entrance to Waikawa Harbour, around to South Head. A campground overlooking the bay is situated on South… …   Wikipedia

• Porpoise Corpus — is a forward looking jazz ensemble comprised of Dave O Brien, Tom Ward, Tom Challenger, Spencer Brown, Jonathan Bratoeff (from the F IRE Collective) and Guy Wood.They are the 2006 recipients of the Peter Whittingham Award for young British jazz… …   Wikipedia

• porpoise — c.1300, from O.Fr. porpais (12c.), lit. pork fish, from porc pork (see PORK (Cf. pork)) + peis fish, from L. piscis fish. The Old French word is probably a loan translation of a Germanic word, Cf. O.N. mar svin, O.H.G. meri swin, M.Du. mereswijn …   Etymology dictionary

• porpoise — [pôr′pəs] n. pl. porpoises or porpoise [ME porpoys < OFr porpeis, lit., swine fish < L porcus, pig (see FARROW1) + piscis, FISH] 1. any of a family (Phocoenidae) of small, usually gregarious toothed whales found in most seas, with a torpedo …   English World dictionary