Definition of vulture in English:

vulture

noun ˈvʌltʃəˈvəltʃər

1A large bird of prey with the head and neck more or less bare of feathers, feeding chiefly on carrion and reputed to gather with others in anticipation of the death of a sick or injured animal or person.
兀鹰，秃鹫
Order Accipitriformes: the Old World vultures (family Accipitridae, especially Gyps and Aegypius) and the New World vultures (with the condors in the family Cathartidae)
Example sentencesExamples
- Gulls, hawks and vultures soar, swallows and terns skim the surface of water.
- Lieberman said they would have followed clues such as vultures circling in the distance.
- The white droppings of birds served as location pointers for eagles and vultures nesting in the craggy reaches.
- Like other New World vultures, California condors are scavengers; historically, they were seen feeding on dead beached whales.
- The prime minister had a bald head at the end of a vulture's neck, and a dragging lid over one eye.
- But the common buzzard, found across much of Europe and Asia, is a hawk, not a vulture.
- In the animal world, vultures serve a useful and necessary function - they clean up in the aftermath of death.
- Farmers who traditionally leave dead animals to the vultures have to develop new practices.
- This is unusual, as vultures are highly efficient scavengers and are normally resistant to many diseases.
- All condors belong to the same order as the vulture.
- A light onshore breeze ruffled the surface of the bay, a few feet away I watched a turkey buzzard or vulture fly by.
- People who consider the carrion-eating habits of vultures disgusting might want to stop reading right now.
- Due to the pressures of so many birds trying to feed, the vultures gobble down chunks of flesh and can fill a crop with more than one and half a kilograms of meat in four to five minutes.
- The most widely distributed vulture in the New World, the Turkey Vulture is a large, predominantly blackish-brown bird.
- Apart from vultures, most birds don't seem to be adversely affected by the wind farms that make use of the region's most plentiful natural resource.
- We come across vultures, at least a dozen of them, feeding on the remains of a young wild camel.
- As far as other raptors go, you'd be hard-pressed to mistake an accipiter for a vulture or an eagle.
- After their release, the vultures are monitored by biologists and a network of observers across the Alps.
- Scenes such as this where a group of vultures gather are becoming more rare in many places of Africa.
- One of four species of vulture found in Europe, bearded vultures earned their name from a small tuft of dark feathers below their beaks.
2A contemptible person who preys on or exploits others.
贪婪的人，劫掠成性者
the press are vultures
as modifier rock musicians are set upon by vulture managers
Example sentencesExamples
- What was wrong with the system that was in place before all these vulture companies came along?
- But people complain that traders have become like vultures in exploiting the situation and doubling prices.
- Only the action of vulture investors buying into the company has prevented the share price falling into single digits.
- The capital markets are all but closed to the company, bar perhaps a few vulture funds picking at the bones of the rapidly thinning beast.
- The vulture paparazzi caricaturised themselves and the passing of time has put that photo shoot into its true perspective.
- Kinder than the rest of his vulture kind, he asked, ‘When will the wedding be?’
- After my arrest the vultures who gathered, waiting for my carcass, weren't just after me.
- In the NHS, for example, vulture private firms now make a fortune from privatisation schemes, while nurses and other health workers suffer low pay and long working hours.
- But now they were tearing each other to pieces, and their vulture lawyers would pick at the carcass of their marriage.
- For one thing, vulture investors may be unwilling to go through the red tape involved in obtaining a license to run a casino in New Jersey.
- The press was an absolute vulture when President Bush's National Guard record was questioned.
- The former NYSE chief valiantly came forward to admit to the gross sum, knowing some vulture in the press would dig it out anyway.
- The slowdown in the commercial property market in Ireland may lead to vulture funds looking to obtain short-term value in the Irish market.
- We made our way through the vultures answering a bare minimum of questions and sped away from the hospital.
- For Embler, bagging the money may require tough-guy tactics, but that's just how he plays the vulture game.
- Such vulture funds buy shares in investment trusts and then force a vote of stockholders which can compel trusts to offer a cash exit to shareholders at close to net asset value.
- And there may be some current bond-holders who are simply following vulture instincts.
- He also knew that once Larry accepted the job, Artie would have to wine and dine him because that's when the other vulture agents would fly in to seize him.
- She glanced at the study door, caught the vulture look in Primus's eyes, and smiled sweetly.
- If you are a Leeds fan, you see vultures gathering to take away your stars; if you are a Premiership manager in the marketplace you know that there are deals to be done.

Derivatives

vulturine

adjective ˈvʌltʃərʌɪnˈvəltʃəˌraɪn

1Relating to or resembling a vulture.
vulturine behaviour patterns
Example sentencesExamples
- vulturine, steam-powered flying machines
- Members of the genus Gypohierax are small vulturine eagles, having long and broad wings, and a short, rounded tail.
- The vulturine guineafowl finds seeds, leaves and insects by scratching the ground with its feet.
- After the Duke's death, Wallis felt particularly vulnerable to Lord Louis’ seemingly vulturine behavior.
- encounters with vulturine bandits
2(of a person) preying on or exploiting others; rapacious.

vulturish

adjective

Still, their resemblance to us helps ‘Interview’ hit home, giving it a touch of relevance as it holds a mirror to the public's mutually vulturish relationship with celebrities.
Example sentencesExamples
- I hate to be too vulturish, but if you've been stalling about ordering your Casita you may have a really long wait if you delay too long.
- I should say I ‘related’ to it I guess - enjoying other people's tales of woe sounds so vulturish, doesn't it?
- Their spiritual leader is a vulturish photographer and scientist named Vaughan, played with intricate obsession by Montreal actor Elias Koteas.
- To the bald eagle, a vulturish scavenger that will eat most anything, nothing is more inviting than a dazed and disabled coot idling on flat water.

vulturous

adjective

I came because you've given into my vulturous elder children when I didn't think you would.
Example sentencesExamples
- Newspapers' duty is, ultimately, to the many, not the few, and there is no way to conduct a news business without seeming, especially to certain people related to what's being reported, callous or even vulturous.
- Alas, vulturous Christmas shoppers had already picked brutally over the carcass of the shelves, and the choice was slim.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French vultur, from Latin vulturius.

Rhymes

culture

Definition of vulture in US English:

vulture

nounˈvəlCHərˈvəltʃər

1A large bird of prey with the head and neck more or less bare of feathers, feeding chiefly on carrion and reputed to gather with others in anticipation of the death of a sick or injured animal or person.
兀鹰，秃鹫
Order Accipitriformes: the Old World vultures (family Accipitridae, especially Gyps and Aegypius) and the New World vultures (with the condors in the family Cathartidae)
Example sentencesExamples
- Lieberman said they would have followed clues such as vultures circling in the distance.
- A light onshore breeze ruffled the surface of the bay, a few feet away I watched a turkey buzzard or vulture fly by.
- Due to the pressures of so many birds trying to feed, the vultures gobble down chunks of flesh and can fill a crop with more than one and half a kilograms of meat in four to five minutes.
- As far as other raptors go, you'd be hard-pressed to mistake an accipiter for a vulture or an eagle.
- Like other New World vultures, California condors are scavengers; historically, they were seen feeding on dead beached whales.
- This is unusual, as vultures are highly efficient scavengers and are normally resistant to many diseases.
- Scenes such as this where a group of vultures gather are becoming more rare in many places of Africa.
- The most widely distributed vulture in the New World, the Turkey Vulture is a large, predominantly blackish-brown bird.
- After their release, the vultures are monitored by biologists and a network of observers across the Alps.
- The white droppings of birds served as location pointers for eagles and vultures nesting in the craggy reaches.
- We come across vultures, at least a dozen of them, feeding on the remains of a young wild camel.
- The prime minister had a bald head at the end of a vulture's neck, and a dragging lid over one eye.
- Farmers who traditionally leave dead animals to the vultures have to develop new practices.
- But the common buzzard, found across much of Europe and Asia, is a hawk, not a vulture.
- All condors belong to the same order as the vulture.
- Gulls, hawks and vultures soar, swallows and terns skim the surface of water.
- Apart from vultures, most birds don't seem to be adversely affected by the wind farms that make use of the region's most plentiful natural resource.
- In the animal world, vultures serve a useful and necessary function - they clean up in the aftermath of death.
- One of four species of vulture found in Europe, bearded vultures earned their name from a small tuft of dark feathers below their beaks.
- People who consider the carrion-eating habits of vultures disgusting might want to stop reading right now.
2A contemptible person who preys on or exploits others.
贪婪的人，劫掠成性者
the press are vultures
as modifier rock musicians are set upon by vulture managers
Example sentencesExamples
- Kinder than the rest of his vulture kind, he asked, ‘When will the wedding be?’
- Such vulture funds buy shares in investment trusts and then force a vote of stockholders which can compel trusts to offer a cash exit to shareholders at close to net asset value.
- But now they were tearing each other to pieces, and their vulture lawyers would pick at the carcass of their marriage.
- And there may be some current bond-holders who are simply following vulture instincts.
- The vulture paparazzi caricaturised themselves and the passing of time has put that photo shoot into its true perspective.
- The press was an absolute vulture when President Bush's National Guard record was questioned.
- For Embler, bagging the money may require tough-guy tactics, but that's just how he plays the vulture game.
- The slowdown in the commercial property market in Ireland may lead to vulture funds looking to obtain short-term value in the Irish market.
- For one thing, vulture investors may be unwilling to go through the red tape involved in obtaining a license to run a casino in New Jersey.
- If you are a Leeds fan, you see vultures gathering to take away your stars; if you are a Premiership manager in the marketplace you know that there are deals to be done.
- In the NHS, for example, vulture private firms now make a fortune from privatisation schemes, while nurses and other health workers suffer low pay and long working hours.
- The former NYSE chief valiantly came forward to admit to the gross sum, knowing some vulture in the press would dig it out anyway.
- She glanced at the study door, caught the vulture look in Primus's eyes, and smiled sweetly.
- He also knew that once Larry accepted the job, Artie would have to wine and dine him because that's when the other vulture agents would fly in to seize him.
- But people complain that traders have become like vultures in exploiting the situation and doubling prices.
- Only the action of vulture investors buying into the company has prevented the share price falling into single digits.
- What was wrong with the system that was in place before all these vulture companies came along?
- We made our way through the vultures answering a bare minimum of questions and sped away from the hospital.
- The capital markets are all but closed to the company, bar perhaps a few vulture funds picking at the bones of the rapidly thinning beast.
- After my arrest the vultures who gathered, waiting for my carcass, weren't just after me.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French vultur, from Latin vulturius.

词汇	vulture
释义	Definition of vulture in English: vulture noun ˈvʌltʃəˈvəltʃər 1A large bird of prey with the head and neck more or less bare of feathers, feeding chiefly on carrion and reputed to gather with others in anticipation of the death of a sick or injured animal or person. 兀鹰，秃鹫 Order Accipitriformes: the Old World vultures (family Accipitridae, especially Gyps and Aegypius) and the New World vultures (with the condors in the family Cathartidae) Example sentencesExamples Gulls, hawks and vultures soar, swallows and terns skim the surface of water. Lieberman said they would have followed clues such as vultures circling in the distance. The white droppings of birds served as location pointers for eagles and vultures nesting in the craggy reaches. Like other New World vultures, California condors are scavengers; historically, they were seen feeding on dead beached whales. The prime minister had a bald head at the end of a vulture's neck, and a dragging lid over one eye. But the common buzzard, found across much of Europe and Asia, is a hawk, not a vulture. In the animal world, vultures serve a useful and necessary function - they clean up in the aftermath of death. Farmers who traditionally leave dead animals to the vultures have to develop new practices. This is unusual, as vultures are highly efficient scavengers and are normally resistant to many diseases. All condors belong to the same order as the vulture. A light onshore breeze ruffled the surface of the bay, a few feet away I watched a turkey buzzard or vulture fly by. People who consider the carrion-eating habits of vultures disgusting might want to stop reading right now. Due to the pressures of so many birds trying to feed, the vultures gobble down chunks of flesh and can fill a crop with more than one and half a kilograms of meat in four to five minutes. The most widely distributed vulture in the New World, the Turkey Vulture is a large, predominantly blackish-brown bird. Apart from vultures, most birds don't seem to be adversely affected by the wind farms that make use of the region's most plentiful natural resource. We come across vultures, at least a dozen of them, feeding on the remains of a young wild camel. As far as other raptors go, you'd be hard-pressed to mistake an accipiter for a vulture or an eagle. After their release, the vultures are monitored by biologists and a network of observers across the Alps. Scenes such as this where a group of vultures gather are becoming more rare in many places of Africa. One of four species of vulture found in Europe, bearded vultures earned their name from a small tuft of dark feathers below their beaks. 2A contemptible person who preys on or exploits others. 贪婪的人，劫掠成性者 the press are vultures as modifier rock musicians are set upon by vulture managers Example sentencesExamples What was wrong with the system that was in place before all these vulture companies came along? But people complain that traders have become like vultures in exploiting the situation and doubling prices. Only the action of vulture investors buying into the company has prevented the share price falling into single digits. The capital markets are all but closed to the company, bar perhaps a few vulture funds picking at the bones of the rapidly thinning beast. The vulture paparazzi caricaturised themselves and the passing of time has put that photo shoot into its true perspective. Kinder than the rest of his vulture kind, he asked, ‘When will the wedding be?’ After my arrest the vultures who gathered, waiting for my carcass, weren't just after me. In the NHS, for example, vulture private firms now make a fortune from privatisation schemes, while nurses and other health workers suffer low pay and long working hours. But now they were tearing each other to pieces, and their vulture lawyers would pick at the carcass of their marriage. For one thing, vulture investors may be unwilling to go through the red tape involved in obtaining a license to run a casino in New Jersey. The press was an absolute vulture when President Bush's National Guard record was questioned. The former NYSE chief valiantly came forward to admit to the gross sum, knowing some vulture in the press would dig it out anyway. The slowdown in the commercial property market in Ireland may lead to vulture funds looking to obtain short-term value in the Irish market. We made our way through the vultures answering a bare minimum of questions and sped away from the hospital. For Embler, bagging the money may require tough-guy tactics, but that's just how he plays the vulture game. Such vulture funds buy shares in investment trusts and then force a vote of stockholders which can compel trusts to offer a cash exit to shareholders at close to net asset value. And there may be some current bond-holders who are simply following vulture instincts. He also knew that once Larry accepted the job, Artie would have to wine and dine him because that's when the other vulture agents would fly in to seize him. She glanced at the study door, caught the vulture look in Primus's eyes, and smiled sweetly. If you are a Leeds fan, you see vultures gathering to take away your stars; if you are a Premiership manager in the marketplace you know that there are deals to be done. Derivatives vulturine adjective ˈvʌltʃərʌɪnˈvəltʃəˌraɪn 1Relating to or resembling a vulture. vulturine behaviour patterns Example sentencesExamples vulturine, steam-powered flying machines Members of the genus Gypohierax are small vulturine eagles, having long and broad wings, and a short, rounded tail. The vulturine guineafowl finds seeds, leaves and insects by scratching the ground with its feet. After the Duke's death, Wallis felt particularly vulnerable to Lord Louis’ seemingly vulturine behavior. encounters with vulturine bandits 2(of a person) preying on or exploiting others; rapacious. vulturish adjective Still, their resemblance to us helps ‘Interview’ hit home, giving it a touch of relevance as it holds a mirror to the public's mutually vulturish relationship with celebrities. Example sentencesExamples I hate to be too vulturish, but if you've been stalling about ordering your Casita you may have a really long wait if you delay too long. I should say I ‘related’ to it I guess - enjoying other people's tales of woe sounds so vulturish, doesn't it? Their spiritual leader is a vulturish photographer and scientist named Vaughan, played with intricate obsession by Montreal actor Elias Koteas. To the bald eagle, a vulturish scavenger that will eat most anything, nothing is more inviting than a dazed and disabled coot idling on flat water. vulturous adjective I came because you've given into my vulturous elder children when I didn't think you would. Example sentencesExamples Newspapers' duty is, ultimately, to the many, not the few, and there is no way to conduct a news business without seeming, especially to certain people related to what's being reported, callous or even vulturous. Alas, vulturous Christmas shoppers had already picked brutally over the carcass of the shelves, and the choice was slim. Origin Late Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French vultur, from Latin vulturius. Rhymes culture Definition of vulture in US English: vulture nounˈvəlCHərˈvəltʃər 1A large bird of prey with the head and neck more or less bare of feathers, feeding chiefly on carrion and reputed to gather with others in anticipation of the death of a sick or injured animal or person. 兀鹰，秃鹫 Order Accipitriformes: the Old World vultures (family Accipitridae, especially Gyps and Aegypius) and the New World vultures (with the condors in the family Cathartidae) Example sentencesExamples Lieberman said they would have followed clues such as vultures circling in the distance. A light onshore breeze ruffled the surface of the bay, a few feet away I watched a turkey buzzard or vulture fly by. Due to the pressures of so many birds trying to feed, the vultures gobble down chunks of flesh and can fill a crop with more than one and half a kilograms of meat in four to five minutes. As far as other raptors go, you'd be hard-pressed to mistake an accipiter for a vulture or an eagle. Like other New World vultures, California condors are scavengers; historically, they were seen feeding on dead beached whales. This is unusual, as vultures are highly efficient scavengers and are normally resistant to many diseases. Scenes such as this where a group of vultures gather are becoming more rare in many places of Africa. The most widely distributed vulture in the New World, the Turkey Vulture is a large, predominantly blackish-brown bird. After their release, the vultures are monitored by biologists and a network of observers across the Alps. The white droppings of birds served as location pointers for eagles and vultures nesting in the craggy reaches. We come across vultures, at least a dozen of them, feeding on the remains of a young wild camel. The prime minister had a bald head at the end of a vulture's neck, and a dragging lid over one eye. Farmers who traditionally leave dead animals to the vultures have to develop new practices. But the common buzzard, found across much of Europe and Asia, is a hawk, not a vulture. All condors belong to the same order as the vulture. Gulls, hawks and vultures soar, swallows and terns skim the surface of water. Apart from vultures, most birds don't seem to be adversely affected by the wind farms that make use of the region's most plentiful natural resource. In the animal world, vultures serve a useful and necessary function - they clean up in the aftermath of death. One of four species of vulture found in Europe, bearded vultures earned their name from a small tuft of dark feathers below their beaks. People who consider the carrion-eating habits of vultures disgusting might want to stop reading right now. 2A contemptible person who preys on or exploits others. 贪婪的人，劫掠成性者 the press are vultures as modifier rock musicians are set upon by vulture managers Example sentencesExamples Kinder than the rest of his vulture kind, he asked, ‘When will the wedding be?’ Such vulture funds buy shares in investment trusts and then force a vote of stockholders which can compel trusts to offer a cash exit to shareholders at close to net asset value. But now they were tearing each other to pieces, and their vulture lawyers would pick at the carcass of their marriage. And there may be some current bond-holders who are simply following vulture instincts. The vulture paparazzi caricaturised themselves and the passing of time has put that photo shoot into its true perspective. The press was an absolute vulture when President Bush's National Guard record was questioned. For Embler, bagging the money may require tough-guy tactics, but that's just how he plays the vulture game. The slowdown in the commercial property market in Ireland may lead to vulture funds looking to obtain short-term value in the Irish market. For one thing, vulture investors may be unwilling to go through the red tape involved in obtaining a license to run a casino in New Jersey. If you are a Leeds fan, you see vultures gathering to take away your stars; if you are a Premiership manager in the marketplace you know that there are deals to be done. In the NHS, for example, vulture private firms now make a fortune from privatisation schemes, while nurses and other health workers suffer low pay and long working hours. The former NYSE chief valiantly came forward to admit to the gross sum, knowing some vulture in the press would dig it out anyway. She glanced at the study door, caught the vulture look in Primus's eyes, and smiled sweetly. He also knew that once Larry accepted the job, Artie would have to wine and dine him because that's when the other vulture agents would fly in to seize him. But people complain that traders have become like vultures in exploiting the situation and doubling prices. Only the action of vulture investors buying into the company has prevented the share price falling into single digits. What was wrong with the system that was in place before all these vulture companies came along? We made our way through the vultures answering a bare minimum of questions and sped away from the hospital. The capital markets are all but closed to the company, bar perhaps a few vulture funds picking at the bones of the rapidly thinning beast. After my arrest the vultures who gathered, waiting for my carcass, weren't just after me. Origin Late Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French vultur, from Latin vulturius.
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