porpoise

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ˈpɔːpəs/

Verb

intransitive

(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.

Japanese Meaning

水面に連続して飛び出し、息を吸った後すぐに水中へ潜る行為をする（空気呼吸を行う動物が行う動作を表す）。

What is this buttons?

The penguins porpoise along the ice edge, surfacing in quick bursts to breathe before diving again.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

ペンギンは氷の縁に沿って水面を連続して跳ね上がり、呼吸のために素早く浮上してはまた潜る。

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Sense（1）

(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.

Urging them to join me, I raced in circles through the surging water, chased my tail for the children, blew spouts of foam through the sunfilled spray, porpoised to and fro across the river in shallow leaps that stitched the air and water into a table-lace of foam.

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Sense（2）

(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.

porpoises

（ present singular third-person ）

porpoising

（ participle present ）

porpoised

（ participle past ）

porpoised

（ past ）

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