What does fisher mean?

Definitions for fisher
ˈfɪʃ ərfish·er

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word fisher.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. fisherman, fishernoun

    someone whose occupation is catching fish

  2. fisher, pekan, fisher cat, black cat, Martes pennantinoun

    large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal

Wiktionary

  1. fishernoun

    A person or ship that is engaged in fishing.

  2. fishernoun

    A North American marten that has thick brown fur; Martes pennanti.

  3. fishernoun

    The fur of this animal.

  4. Fishernoun

    An English occupational surname for a fisherman.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Fishernoun

    One who is employed in catching fish.

    Etymology: from fish.

    In our sight the three were taken up
    By fishermen of Corinth, as we thought:
    At length another had seiz’d on us,
    And would have rest the fishers of their prey,
    Had not they been very slow of sail. William Shakespeare, Comedy of Err.

    We know that town is but with fishers fraught,
    Where Theseus govern’d and where Plato taught. George Sandys.

    Lest he should suspect it, draw it from him,
    As fishers do the bait, to make him follow it. John Denham.

    A soldier now he with his coat appears;
    A fisher now, his trembling angle bears;
    Each shape he varies. Alexander Pope.

ChatGPT

  1. fisher

    A Fisher is a term that can refer to: 1) An animal species: It is a medium-sized mammal native to North America. It is a member of the mustelid family, commonly referred to as the weasel family. Fisher is agile in trees and has a slender body that allows it to pursue preys into hollow trees or burrows in the ground. 2) Occupation or activity: A fisher can also refer to a person who captures fish and other animals from a body of water, or gathers shellfish. This can be done for survival, as a hobby (recreational fishing), or as a profession (commercial fishing). 3) Statistical analysis: It also refers to Ronald A. Fisher, a British statistician and geneticist, who introduced many key concepts in statistics, such as Fisher's exact test, Fisher's method, etc. The right definition would be determined by the context in which it's used.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Fishernoun

    one who fishes

  2. Fishernoun

    a carnivorous animal of the Weasel family (Mustela Canadensis); the pekan; the "black cat."

  3. Etymology: [AS. fiscere.]

Wikidata

  1. Fisher

    Fisher is a former provincial electoral division in Manitoba, Canada. It was created for the 1920 provincial election, and eliminated with the 1969 election. The constituency was located in mid-northern Manitoba, in the Interlake region. There have long been suggestions that the election results for Fisher in the 1962 provincial election were rigged. New Democratic Party incumbent Peter Wagner was originally declared the winner, but this decision was overturned when a scrutineer from a remote polling station announced that a miscount had occurred.

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. FISHER

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Fisher is ranked #112 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Fisher surname appeared 214,703 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 73 would have the surname Fisher.

    82.5% or 177,302 total occurrences were White.
    11.7% or 25,313 total occurrences were Black.
    2.4% or 5,217 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    1.8% or 4,058 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    0.7% or 1,632 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
    0.5% or 1,181 total occurrences were Asian.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of fisher in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of fisher in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of fisher in a Sentence

  1. Ingrid Weir:

    The Bible told me to be a, "fisher of men". I'm trying, but it gets so exhausting to have to reel them in just to throw them back once you realize it's just another crappie.

  2. Todd Fisher:

    He had just moved in, and he was showing us around the house, i had just gotten to town and, being a teenager, he assumed that Carrie Fisher and I were smoking a little pot … So he puts his arm around me and he goes, ‘ Hey, man. ’ Puts a couple joints in my pocket, and he goes, ‘ Do n’t go to strangers. ’ I ’d only known him from the movies. I was a little kid when he made the movie ‘ The Rat Race ’ with my mother, and nobody was even thinking in these terms … At that moment, my mother did n’t know Carrie Fisher and I were smoking pot at all. He was even kind of hiding it from her. So it was a little bit of a revelation.

  3. Molly Ringwald:

    [The John Hughes movies] were really unique and really fun and he basically got that whole teen 'thing' in a way that nobody has gotten since, except for a movie that I really love that I think is the inheritance of John Hughes, to my mind, I think 'Eighth Grade' completely gets it. Elsie Fisher's performance is incredible. I think what it really shares with the John Hughes films is the fact that it's really funny and yet it's really moving.

  4. Mark Hamill:

    The director ... took me aside and he said, ‘I have to tell you something. I know it, George Lucas knows it and when I tell you, you’ll know it. But if it leaks, we’ll know it was you.’ And he handed me the piece of paper that said, ‘I am your father.’ I was shocked. i didn’t tell Carrie [Fisher].

  5. Boston Mayor Marty Walsh:

    Boston will not invest in companies led by people who treat women like commodities. Reports of Ken Fisher's comments and poor judgment are incredibly disturbing, and I have asked our retirement board to take a vote to end any relationship with Fisher Investments.

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