different between fishing vs dishing

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f????/
• Rhymes: -????
• Homophone: phishing

Etymology 1

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

Noun

fishing (countable and uncountable, plural fishings)

1. (uncountable) The act of catching fish.

   We had a good day's fishing at the weekend.
2. (uncountable, informal) The act of catching other forms of seafood, separately or together with fish.
4. (uncountable) Commercial fishing: the business or industry of catching fish and other seafood for sale.

   This is good news for the fishing industry.

5. (countable) A fishery, a place for catching fish.

   • the rent of the fishings

   • 1917, The Scots Law Times (volume 2, page 190)

     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.

Synonyms

• (act): piscatology, piscation, piscicide (pejorative), piscicapture, the gentle craft
• (business): fishery, the fish industry, the seafood industry
• (sport): sportfishing
• (place): See fishery

Translations

See also

• (adj): See fishing
• (adv): halieutically
• (science): halieutics, piscatology
• (writing on fishing): halieutics, piscatory

See also

• piscatorious, piscatory, piscatorial, piscatorical, piscatorian; piscatorially

Etymology 2

From fish +? -ing.

Verb

fishing

1. present participle of fish

Derived terms

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d????/

Verb

dishing

1. present participle of dish

Adjective

dishing (comparative more dishing, superlative most dishing)

1. Shaped like a dish; concave.

Noun

dishing (plural dishings)

1. A dish shape or deformation; a concavity.
2. (sometimes figuratively) The act of placing in a dish, as when presenting food to be served.
   • 1887, The National Review (volume 9, page 209)

     The new musical coatings given to these old forms and fiavourings have ever been the curse of musical progress in this country, and it is high time that such “dishings-up” were turned away from, once and for ever, by the music-loving public.

Anagrams

• hidings, shindig