Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A sudden thrust or pass, as with a sword.
- noun A sudden forward movement or plunge.
- intransitive verb To make a sudden thrust or pass.
- intransitive verb To move with a sudden thrust.
- intransitive verb To cause (someone) to lunge.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In fencing, a thrust.
- noun Any sudden forward movement of a person or thing resembling the lunge of a fencer; a plunge; a lurch: as, the lunge of a coach.
- To thrust, as in fencing, with the sword or foil; make a thrust forward; plunge.
- To hide; skulk.
- To cause to move in a plunging or jumping manner, as a horse held by a long rein, for exercise or training.
- noun A long rope used to train a horse; also, the circular track or ring where horses are trained by cantering them around the edge of the ring in one direction with the aid of a lunge.
- noun Same as
longe .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A sudden thrust or pass, as with a sword.
- intransitive verb To make a lunge.
- transitive verb To cause to go round in a ring, as a horse, while holding his halter.
- noun (Zoöl.) Same as
namaycush .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A sudden
forward movement , especially with asword . - noun A long rope or flat web line, more commonly referred to as a
lunge line , approximately 20-30 feet long, attached to thebridle ,lungeing cavesson , orhalter of ahorse and is used to control the animal whilelungeing . - noun An
exercise performed bystepping forward oneleg whilekneeling with the other leg, then returning back to astanding position. - noun A fish, the
namaycush . - verb To make a sudden forward movement (present participle:
lunging ). - verb To
longe or work a horse in a circle around a handler (present participle:lunging orlungeing ).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make a thrusting forward movement
- noun (fencing) an attacking thrust made with one foot forward and the back leg straight and with the sword arm outstretched forward
- noun the act of moving forward suddenly
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It seems that the rapid acceleration and deceleration, and the dynamic movement, involved in lunge-feeding is highly costly, forcing rorquals to limit their dive time, and to increase the time that they need to spend at the surface recovering (Acevedo-Gutiérrez et al. 2002).
Archive 2006-10-01 Darren Naish 2006
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In the previous post I discussed the basic anatomy and behaviour involved in lunge-feeding, a style of predation practiced by rorquals, the biggest, fastest and most dynamic of baleen-bearing cetaceans.
Archive 2006-10-01 Darren Naish 2006
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It seems that the rapid acceleration and deceleration, and the dynamic movement, involved in lunge-feeding is highly costly, forcing rorquals to limit their dive time, and to increase the time that they need to spend at the surface recovering (Acevedo-Gutiérrez et al. 2002).
Lunging is expensive, jaws can be noisy, and what’s with the asymmetry? Rorquals part III Darren Naish 2006
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In the previous post I discussed the basic anatomy and behaviour involved in lunge-feeding, a style of predation practiced by rorquals, the biggest, fastest and most dynamic of baleen-bearing cetaceans.
Lunging is expensive, jaws can be noisy, and what’s with the asymmetry? Rorquals part III Darren Naish 2006
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To the ring he fastened a long "lunge" - rope, which was well named.
CHAPTER XXXIII 2010
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To the ring he fastened a long "lunge" - rope, which was well named.
Chapter 33 1917
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I can’t wait to see McCain lunge at Obama during their first debate. — nancy
McCain Denies Senator’s Account of 1987 Meeting - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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CRUZ: Lower body I would pick the lunge, the lunge is a swift dance move.
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The word is often made mascalonge, or muscalunge, and, it being less labour to pronounce one than four syllables, people in many districts where the fish is caught, for short call it "'lunge."
Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler William Senior
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'Scapes not the dreadful sword lunge of her look *
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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