What does fishing mean?
Definitions for fishing
ˈfɪʃ ɪŋfish·ing
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word fishing.
Princeton's WordNet
fishing, sportfishingnoun
the act of someone who fishes as a diversion
fishingnoun
the occupation of catching fish for a living
Wiktionary
fishingnoun
The activity or sport of catching fish from a body of water.
a good day's fishing
fishingnoun
The business of catching fish in large quantities for sale.
the fishing industry
fishingnoun
A place for catching fish.
fishingadjective
Of, or pertaining to fishing.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Fishingnoun
Commodity of taking fish.
Etymology: from fish.
There also would be planted a good town, having both a good haven and a plentiful fishing. Edmund Spenser, on Ireland.
Wikipedia
Fishing
Fishing is the activity of trying to catch fish. Fish are often caught as wildlife from the natural environment, but may also be caught from stocked bodies of water such as ponds, canals, park wetlands and reservoirs. Fishing techniques include hand-gathering, spearing, netting, angling, shooting and trapping, as well as more destructive and often illegal techniques such as electrocution, blasting and poisoning. The term fishing broadly includes catching aquatic animals other than fish, such as crustaceans (shrimp/lobsters/crabs), shellfish, cephalopods (octopus/squid) and echinoderms (starfish/sea urchins). The term is not normally applied to harvesting fish raised in controlled cultivations (fish farming). Nor is it normally applied to hunting aquatic mammals, where terms like whaling and sealing are used instead. Fishing has been an important part of human culture since hunter-gatherer times, and is one of the few food production activities that have persisted from prehistory into modern age, surviving both the Neolithic Revolution and successive Industrial Revolutions. In addition to being caught to be eaten for food, fish are caught as recreational pastimes. Fishing tournaments are held, and caught fish are sometimes kept long-term as preserved or living trophies. When bioblitzes occur, fish are typically caught, identified, and then released. According to the United Nations FAO statistics, the total number of commercial fishers and fish farmers is estimated to be 38 million. Fishing industries and aquaculture provide direct and indirect employment to over 500 million people in developing countries. In 2005, the worldwide per capita consumption of fish captured from wild fisheries was 14.4 kilograms (32 lb), with an additional 7.4 kilograms (16 lb) harvested from fish farms.
Webster Dictionary
Fishing
of Fish
Fishingnoun
the act, practice, or art of one who fishes
Fishingnoun
a fishery
Fishingnoun
pertaining to fishing; used in fishery; engaged in fishing; as, fishing boat; fishing tackle; fishing village
Etymology: [From Fishing, n.]
Freebase
Fishing
Fishing is the activity of trying to catch fish. Fish are normally caught in the wild. Techniques for catching fish include hand gathering, spearing, netting, angling and trapping. The term fishing may be applied to catching other aquatic animals such as molluscs, cephalopods, crustaceans, and echinoderms. The term is not normally applied to catching farmed fish, or to aquatic mammals, such as whales, where the term whaling is more appropriate. According to FAO statistics, the total number of commercial fishermen and fish farmers is estimated to be 38 million. Fisheries and aquaculture provide direct and indirect employment to over 500 million people. In 2005, the worldwide per capita consumption of fish captured from wild fisheries was 14.4 kilograms, with an additional 7.4 kilograms harvested from fish farms. In addition to providing food, modern fishing is also a recreational pastime.
The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz
FISHING
An heroic treatment tried by some laymen to avoid falling asleep in church on Sunday.
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
fishing
In taking celestial observations, means the sweeping to find a star or other object when near its approximate place.
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Rank popularity for the word 'fishing' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3137
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Rank popularity for the word 'fishing' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3488
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'fishing' in Nouns Frequency: #1334
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of fishing in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of fishing in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of fishing in a Sentence
Me and my brother and my wife and daughter were going fishing and we come around the curve and he was laying out there in the field.
I applaud the congressman for calling out the administration's hypocrisy when it comes to our domestic fisheries and their policies, this is not the first time that something like this has happened, but it is good to see, and particularly a Democrat pointing it out because this administration has frankly not been friendly or helpful to our domestic fishing industry.
The only thing Japan can do now is to prevent North Korean fishing ships from entering and for the Japanese Coast Guard to continue to use methods such as spraying water to keep them out.
I thought it would make good fishing bait.
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper; fish fill the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars. I cannot count one. I know not the first letter of the alphabet. I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.
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- صيد السمكArabic
- рыба́лкаBelarusian
- pescaCatalan, Valencian
- rybolovCzech
- lystfiskeri, fiskeri, fiskeDanish
- Fischfang, FischenGerman
- ĉasfiŝi, fiŝkapti, fiŝkaptado, fiŝiEsperanto
- pescar, pescaSpanish
- ماهیگیریPersian
- kalastus, kalastusalue, kalastusurheilu, apaja, kalapaikka, kalavedet, urheilukalastus, kalatalousFinnish
- pêcheFrench
- iascaireachtIrish
- halászatHungarian
- ձկնորսություն, ձկնորսականArmenian
- pescaItalian
- 漁業, 釣り, 漁, 釣り場, 漁場Japanese
- ការស្ទូចត្រី, ការនេសាទត្រីKhmer
- 낚시Korean
- zvejasvieta, zvejas vieta, zveja, zvejniecībaLatvian
- риба́рство, рибарски, риболовен, ри́боловMacedonian
- visserij, visvangst, sportvisserij, vissen, stek, hengelsportDutch
- fisking, fiskeNorwegian
- rybacki, rybołówstwo, wędkarstwoPolish
- pescaria, pescaPortuguese
- pescuireRomanian
- рыба́лка, [[рыбный, рыболо́вствоRussian
- fiskevatten, fiske, fiskare, fiskandeSwedish
- Balık tutmaTurkish
- риба́лкаUkrainian
- câu cáVietnamese
- 钓鱼Chinese
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