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Definition of eagle in English: eaglenoun ˈiːɡ(ə)lˈiɡəl 1A large bird of prey with a massive hooked bill and long broad wings, known for its keen sight and powerful soaring flight. Family Accipitridae: several genera, in particular Aquila Example sentencesExamples - He could spot mental mistakes and misjudgments in a ball game quicker than an airborne eagle catches sight of prey scurrying around on the ground.
- In addition to human foes, Australian flying foxes must contend with a number of natural predators, including pythons, wedge-tailed eagles and powerful owls.
- Across the water were four immature eagles soaring, swooping, and suffering the aggression of what we believe was a Merlin.
- Dumbfounded, I forgot all about my camera until the eagle was out of sight.
- The South African National Bird of Prey Centre takes in injured raptors - eagles, owls, sparrow hawks, for example - and nurses them back to health.
- For one thing, the ferrets weren't very predator savvy, and naive ferrets made easy prey for hawks, eagles and other grassland hunters.
- But in every generation, it seems, they try, remembering not the fall, but the heady lift of flight, the eagle soaring by.
- A gorgeous golden eagle was perched on the sill.
- The flight of an eagle is a beautiful thing to watch: wings outspread, gliding and dipping, effortlessly riding invisible currents.
- I followed the majestic flight of an eagle reveling in his freedom, soaring through the skies as if they were his to roam at will.
- The seemingly insignificant scorpion, now moving under the shadows of the eagle's powerful wings, never even caught the bird's eye.
- In recent years fanfare accompanied the return of species like the osprey and red kite in England and the white-tailed eagle in Scotland.
- Some years back, we reintroduced the white-tailed sea eagle here.
- The site, which is run by volunteers and houses more than 60 birds including owls, eagles and vultures, is a popular destination for families and school groups.
- He did not notice the eagles soaring over him, nor the vultures which looked down on him from his very own towers.
- The Ende's consider the birds - eagles, falcons, hawks, owls and kestrels - as part of their family.
- My brother is into birds of prey - mostly eagles and falcons.
- From the roof terrace of his three-storey whitewashed house, Ian Gibson watches golden eagles swooping lazily above.
- It features free-flying displays and an opportunity for people to see at close hand some 30 different birds of prey, including eagles, buzzards and falcons.
- Hornbills are large, canopy-dwelling birds that fear eagles but don't mind leopards - after all, the birds fly and the leopards don't.
- 1.1 A figure of an eagle, especially as a symbol of the US.
Example sentencesExamples - Some of the designs were very simple and graphic, looking like the two-headed eagles of heraldry, and some were much more elaborate.
- By a decree of July 1804, the eagle and the bee were chosen as the two symbols of the empire.
- The money held by these Iraqis is decorated with American eagles, symbolizing the support given the Iraqis by the West.
- Five hundred feet high, it was completed by a tall tower, crowned with the symbol of the State - an eagle and a swastika.
- There were not many more British enthusiasts for the hammer and sickle than there had been for the double-headed eagle.
- In the the Hall of St George, he shows me the newly restored twin-headed eagle, symbol of Tsarist Russia, from the top of the Winter Palace.
- It's no accident that John Altman's World War II thriller has a German eagle, a swastika and a Nazi-esque title font on the cover.
- The German, Austrian, and Russian empires all included a double-headed eagle in their official arms.
- Each pillar has four bronze columns supporting American eagles that hold a victory laurel.
- He grabbed the presidential mobile phone, which had a double-headed eagle instead of buttons, from the nightstand.
- The national symbol of Serbia is a double-headed white eagle, a creature considered the king of animals.
- There he was, standing beneath an enormous gold-coloured double-headed eagle, Russia's national symbol, looked focused and unrattled.
- Napolean later tried to switch the bird for an eagle, saying, ‘the rooster has no strength.’
- The coat of arms, adopted in 1992, consists of a gold eagle against a blue background holding a cross in its beak, a sword in one claw, and a scepter in the other.
- The gold Napoleonic eagle, emblem of the Coalition, stood out boldly on the front of their black berets.
- If you do a search for Dept. of Homeland Security's logo, it is a blue colour circular logo with an eagle in it.
- Above the bench in the courtroom there was a double-headed eagle, a very ancient dynastic symbol representing the union of church and state.
- Germany's national symbol has been the eagle since Charlemagne was emperor from 800 to 814.
- In some cases, emblems that included eagles, the outline of the state or the American flag, for example, were deleted or simplified.
- In addition to the United States, numerous other nations through the ages have adopted the eagle as their symbol.
2Golf
A score of two strokes under par at a hole. as modifier he also had an eagle three at the ninth Example sentencesExamples - Levet was first to play and there was delight when his little chip and run trickled into the hole for an eagle three.
- Cheetham needed an eagle on the last hole of Tour School to make it back on to the circuit.
- The first year, I was standing at the 18th green and had just finished playing when Lew Worsham scored an eagle 2 on the last hole.
- The 3-handicapper contributed three eagles and four birdies to his team en route to shooting a 69 on his own ball.
- The ball pitched a few yards past the flag and, courtesy of a powerful amount of backspin, zipped back into the hole for an eagle two.
3US A former gold coin worth ten dollars. Example sentencesExamples - For instance, if the banks issued dollar notes, silver dollars ceased to circulate, and no one paid with a gold eagle if a ten dollar note was at hand.
- He clanged a fist of twenty-dollar gold eagles on the counter.
verb ˈiːɡ(ə)lˈiɡəl [with object]Golf Play (a hole) in two strokes under par. he eagled the last to share fourth place Example sentencesExamples - Michael Hancock eagled the 14th hole with a big three.
- He won the Crosby Plate at West Lancs in sensational style when he eagled the penultimate hole.
- The world number two made swift amends in his second round, eagling his second hole - the 11th - and going on to reach the turn in 32.
- He dropped two shots over the first four holes but eagled the 501-yard par-five seventh before playing the rest of the round in level par.
- Jerry Barber, all of 40 years ago, is the only other player in Masters history to have eagled the hole they call White Dogwood.
Origin Middle English: from Old French aigle, from Latin aquila. Eagle comes from Old French aigle which came in turn from Latin aquila ‘eagle’ also the source of aquiline (mid 17th century)—an aquiline nose is hooked like an eagle's beak. Renowned for its keen sight and soaring flight, the eagle is considered the king of birds. The bald eagle is the emblem of the USA, and Eagle was the name of the lunar module during the first moon landing, on 20 July 1969. The phrase the eagle has landed was said by astronaut Neil Armstrong on that day: ‘Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.’ It was later used by Jack Higgins as the title of his 1975 thriller about an attempt to assassinate Winston Churchill. See also bird
Rhymes beagle, illegal, legal, paralegal, regal, spread eagle, viceregal Definition of eagle in US English: eaglenounˈēɡəlˈiɡəl 1A large bird of prey with a massive hooked bill and long broad wings, renowned for its keen sight and powerful soaring flight. Family Accipitridae: several genera, in particular Aquila Example sentencesExamples - In addition to human foes, Australian flying foxes must contend with a number of natural predators, including pythons, wedge-tailed eagles and powerful owls.
- For one thing, the ferrets weren't very predator savvy, and naive ferrets made easy prey for hawks, eagles and other grassland hunters.
- The flight of an eagle is a beautiful thing to watch: wings outspread, gliding and dipping, effortlessly riding invisible currents.
- From the roof terrace of his three-storey whitewashed house, Ian Gibson watches golden eagles swooping lazily above.
- Some years back, we reintroduced the white-tailed sea eagle here.
- He could spot mental mistakes and misjudgments in a ball game quicker than an airborne eagle catches sight of prey scurrying around on the ground.
- Across the water were four immature eagles soaring, swooping, and suffering the aggression of what we believe was a Merlin.
- But in every generation, it seems, they try, remembering not the fall, but the heady lift of flight, the eagle soaring by.
- My brother is into birds of prey - mostly eagles and falcons.
- It features free-flying displays and an opportunity for people to see at close hand some 30 different birds of prey, including eagles, buzzards and falcons.
- He did not notice the eagles soaring over him, nor the vultures which looked down on him from his very own towers.
- The South African National Bird of Prey Centre takes in injured raptors - eagles, owls, sparrow hawks, for example - and nurses them back to health.
- The seemingly insignificant scorpion, now moving under the shadows of the eagle's powerful wings, never even caught the bird's eye.
- The Ende's consider the birds - eagles, falcons, hawks, owls and kestrels - as part of their family.
- I followed the majestic flight of an eagle reveling in his freedom, soaring through the skies as if they were his to roam at will.
- The site, which is run by volunteers and houses more than 60 birds including owls, eagles and vultures, is a popular destination for families and school groups.
- Hornbills are large, canopy-dwelling birds that fear eagles but don't mind leopards - after all, the birds fly and the leopards don't.
- Dumbfounded, I forgot all about my camera until the eagle was out of sight.
- A gorgeous golden eagle was perched on the sill.
- In recent years fanfare accompanied the return of species like the osprey and red kite in England and the white-tailed eagle in Scotland.
- 1.1 A figure of an eagle, especially as a symbol of the US, or formerly as a Roman or French ensign.
Example sentencesExamples - The money held by these Iraqis is decorated with American eagles, symbolizing the support given the Iraqis by the West.
- In addition to the United States, numerous other nations through the ages have adopted the eagle as their symbol.
- In some cases, emblems that included eagles, the outline of the state or the American flag, for example, were deleted or simplified.
- It's no accident that John Altman's World War II thriller has a German eagle, a swastika and a Nazi-esque title font on the cover.
- Some of the designs were very simple and graphic, looking like the two-headed eagles of heraldry, and some were much more elaborate.
- He grabbed the presidential mobile phone, which had a double-headed eagle instead of buttons, from the nightstand.
- The coat of arms, adopted in 1992, consists of a gold eagle against a blue background holding a cross in its beak, a sword in one claw, and a scepter in the other.
- By a decree of July 1804, the eagle and the bee were chosen as the two symbols of the empire.
- The national symbol of Serbia is a double-headed white eagle, a creature considered the king of animals.
- If you do a search for Dept. of Homeland Security's logo, it is a blue colour circular logo with an eagle in it.
- Above the bench in the courtroom there was a double-headed eagle, a very ancient dynastic symbol representing the union of church and state.
- There he was, standing beneath an enormous gold-coloured double-headed eagle, Russia's national symbol, looked focused and unrattled.
- The German, Austrian, and Russian empires all included a double-headed eagle in their official arms.
- In the the Hall of St George, he shows me the newly restored twin-headed eagle, symbol of Tsarist Russia, from the top of the Winter Palace.
- There were not many more British enthusiasts for the hammer and sickle than there had been for the double-headed eagle.
- The gold Napoleonic eagle, emblem of the Coalition, stood out boldly on the front of their black berets.
- Each pillar has four bronze columns supporting American eagles that hold a victory laurel.
- Germany's national symbol has been the eagle since Charlemagne was emperor from 800 to 814.
- Napolean later tried to switch the bird for an eagle, saying, ‘the rooster has no strength.’
- Five hundred feet high, it was completed by a tall tower, crowned with the symbol of the State - an eagle and a swastika.
2Golf
A score of two strokes under par at a hole. Example sentencesExamples - The ball pitched a few yards past the flag and, courtesy of a powerful amount of backspin, zipped back into the hole for an eagle two.
- The 3-handicapper contributed three eagles and four birdies to his team en route to shooting a 69 on his own ball.
- The first year, I was standing at the 18th green and had just finished playing when Lew Worsham scored an eagle 2 on the last hole.
- Levet was first to play and there was delight when his little chip and run trickled into the hole for an eagle three.
- Cheetham needed an eagle on the last hole of Tour School to make it back on to the circuit.
3US In the US, a former gold coin worth ten dollars. Example sentencesExamples - For instance, if the banks issued dollar notes, silver dollars ceased to circulate, and no one paid with a gold eagle if a ten dollar note was at hand.
- He clanged a fist of twenty-dollar gold eagles on the counter.
verbˈēɡəlˈiɡəl [with object]Golf Play (a hole) in two strokes under par. he eagled the last to share fourth place Example sentencesExamples - He won the Crosby Plate at West Lancs in sensational style when he eagled the penultimate hole.
- Michael Hancock eagled the 14th hole with a big three.
- Jerry Barber, all of 40 years ago, is the only other player in Masters history to have eagled the hole they call White Dogwood.
- The world number two made swift amends in his second round, eagling his second hole - the 11th - and going on to reach the turn in 32.
- He dropped two shots over the first four holes but eagled the 501-yard par-five seventh before playing the rest of the round in level par.
Origin Middle English: from Old French aigle, from Latin aquila. |