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Whiff (Noun)

Meaning 1

A short light gust of air.

Classification

Nouns denoting natural phenomena.

Synonyms

  • Puff Of Air
  • Puff

Hypernyms

  • Gust
  • Blast

Related Words

  • Whiff (verb)

Meaning 2

A lefteye flounder found in coastal waters from New England to Brazil.

Classification

Nouns denoting animals.

Examples

  • The left eye flounder swam quickly away with just a whiff of the predator's presence.
  • When the waters turned choppy, the flounder caught a whiff of something familiar on the bottom.
  • On calm mornings, the left eye flounder caught a whiff of the low tide mud.
  • The smell of spawning fish wafted through the coastal waters, and the left eye flounder picked up the whiff.
  • As the dawn sun rose over Brazil's coast, a whiff of the ocean's floor brought the flounder dinner.

Hypernyms

  • Lefteyed Flounder

Hyponyms

  • Citharichthys Cornutus

Meaning 3

A strikeout resulting from the batter swinging at and missing the ball for the third strike.

Classification

Nouns denoting acts or actions.

Related Words

  • Whiff (verb)
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