Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act, occupation, or sport of catching fish.
- n. A place for catching fish.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The art or practice of catching fish.
- n. A fishery; a place or facilities for catching fish: as, there is good fishing there.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of, or pertaining to fishing.
- n. uncountable The activity or sport of catching fish from a body of water.
- n. uncountable The business of catching fish, molluscs, crustaceans or echinoderms in large quantities for sale.
- n. countable A place for catching fish.
- v. present participle of fish.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act, practice, or art of one who fishes.
- n. A fishery.
- adj. Pertaining to fishing; used in fishery; engaged in fishing
WordNet 3.0
- n. the occupation of catching fish for a living
- n. the act of someone who fishes as a diversion
Examples
“Mo. for trout my main fishing is on the Mississippi for catfish.”
“There are plenty of campsites and the fishing is awesome.”
“Well, I hope sea fishing is all properly explained now.”
“Deep sea fishing is available there, and (thankfully) no time-share salespeople or hordes of trinket sellers preying on the beachgoers.”
“Deep sea fishing is awesome and exciting, a real physical challenge, but for some reason the Everglades sound better at the moment.”
“When the winds from the east the fishing is the least”
“And what you call fishing for compliments, I call picking a fight.”
The Washington Post: Carolyn Hax: Wife fished for flattery and now gaffs her hubby
“The government is basically accusing defense lawyers of going on what they call a fishing expedition, trying to get them to reveal both their military strategy, as well as their trial strategy.”
“At the outset our fishermen were what you call fishing craftsmen.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘fishing’.
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EU Buzz - ALL words and expressions
A combined list of
1. EU Buzz - single words
2. EU Buzz - collocations
3. EU Buzz - the 100 most active
collocation constituentsabsorption capacity, absorption rate, acceding country, accession candidate, accession countries, accession country, accession criteria, accession cycle, accession negotia..., accession partner..., accession priorities, accession treaty and 2650 more...
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PECH - fishing technology
anchor, berth, drop anchor, anchored floating..., artificial restoc..., bait, beam trawls, bottom gillnets, entangling nets, bottom nets, bottom-set nets, bottom pair trawl and 478 more...
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Against Nature
Inspired by the creepy decadence of Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans.
katzenklavier, pasilalinic-sympa..., the jewel-encrust..., bird's nest soup, ghost net, bottom trawling, coal industry, cat juggling, rattlesnake roundup, fishing, dancing bear, defoliant and 89 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
veal, valve, used, yak, wax, wan, teak, vat, vas, strip, use, strap and 4515 more...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...health, follow, condition, meeting, minister, beginning, chapter, information, language, remain, covered, respect and 2614 more...
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cricket
everything cricket
backlift, bail, batsman, batsmen, batswoman, batswomen, beamer, blockhole, bodyline, bosie, bouncer, boundary and 471 more...
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Pinochle
List of terms used in the card game pinochle, beginning with meld and trick.
meld, trick, widow, widow's hand, talon, kitty, trump, trump suit, bid, contract, run, marriage and 63 more...
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Natural Bait
Things and situations that draw and inspire humans and/or animals, to interact with one another.
pot-luck dinner, water park, lek, spawning season, square dance, county fair, whale rescue, hurricane, flood, pet store, fish market, farmers' market and 87 more...
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some-ing
king, offering, blessing, coping, earnings, trappings, breeding, during, offing, refreshing, sitting, outing and 208 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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Probe~ation
An obnoxious and ridiculous madlib list where verbish '-ing' words fill in the blank wherein the blank is a call for a beating.
For example:
"You're ________in' for a brus...searching, looking, hunting, seeking, questing, exploring, asking, inquiring, snooping, poking, probing, scouting and 262 more...
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TN9 Lesson 102
portable, camp stove, stove, appliance, ice chest, case, soft drink, say, flashlight, goodies, prepared, attached and 61 more...
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OM2 Lesson 16
cookout, backyard, skewer, shish kebab, anyone, grill, hot, sheep, lamb, nobody, mistaken, somebody and 23 more...
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TT3 Lesson 30
outdoors, camp stove, stove, ice chest, appliance, case, soft drink, knife, fork, silverware, tool, tool kit and 59 more...
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Poetrie: Fishing on the Susquehanna i...
Fishing on the Susquehanna in July
by Billy Collins
I have never been fishing on the Susquehanna
or on any river for that matter
to be perfectly honest.
...springing, wired, hare, whitening, haystacks, blink, unlikely, whip, flat-bottom, bandanna, dense, cloud-ruffled and 15 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for fishing.
hernesheir "What shall we do--or go fishing?"
Harold William Thompson - Body, Boots and Britches (1940) p.504 Sep 24, 2009
vanishedone Why does WeirdNet have distinct definitions for fishing as recreation and as a job, but no general definition along the lines of 'catching fish'...? Feb 9, 2009
bilby Cricket jargon - a batsman who tries half-heartedly to hit the ball but does not make contact is said to be fishing. Nov 30, 2007