fishing

SubstantivVerbhäufig in Dialogen

//ˈfɪʃɪŋ//

The act of catching fish.

Substantiv

1
The act of catching fish.
We had a good day's fishing at the weekend.
Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house ; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something ; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.
2
umgangssprachlichThe act of catching other forms of seafood, separately or together with fish.
3
Commercial fishing: the business or industry of catching fish and other seafood for sale.
This is good news for the fishing industry.
4
A fishery, a place for catching fish.
the rent of the fishings
Generally speaking, the only fishings which appear separately in Valuation Rolls as having a lettable value in their actual state from year to year are salmon-fishings.

Herkunft

From Middle English fischynge, equivalent to fish + -ing.

Verb

1
Auch eine Form von fishpresent participle and gerund of fish

Herkunft

From fish + -ing.

Formen

Plural: fishings

fisherman · A fisher, a person engaged in fishing: Any person who…fishes · plural of fish multiple kinds of fish Fishes · The constellation and zodiacal sign Pisces.

fishing · The act of catching fish.

fishy · Of, from, or similar to fish.fisk · To rebut an argument line by line, especially on the Internet.Fisk · A surname.

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