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Qué (quién) es FLUKES - definición
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Fluke (disambiguation); Flukes
fluke
(flukes)
If you say that something good is a fluke, you mean that it happened accidentally rather than by being planned or arranged. (INFORMAL)
The discovery was something of a fluke...
By sheer fluke, one of the shipowner's employees was in the city.
N-COUNT: usu sing, also by N
fluke
n.
1.
Anchor-flake, grappling-flap.
2.
Tail-flap (of a whale).
3.
Flounder, turbot, flowk (Platessa flesus or maximus).
4.
Lucky stroke, stroke of luck (primarily, at billiards).
5.
Fluke-worm, liver-worm, gourd-worm (Distoma hepaticum).
fluke
n. (colloq.)
stroke of luck
1) a pure fluke
2) by a fluke (he won by a fluke)
Ejemplos de uso de FLUKES
1. Not five flukes, or five coincidences÷ five stone–cold certainties.
2. The study used a system of photographing whale flukes _ the lobes of a whale‘s tail _ in six different feeding and breeding areas around the world, and then matching the pictures with whale flukes photographed in wintering areas.
3. The line tightened around her tail as she tried to swim away, strangling the blood supply to her tail flukes.
4. Winter can‘t keep up with wild dolphins that can swim up to 25 mph with strokes of their tail flukes.
5. Winter can‘t keep up with wild dolphins that can swim up to 25 mph (40 kph) with strokes of their tail flukes.