different between fishing vs fisking
fishing
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)
- (uncountable) The act of catching fish.
- We had a good day's fishing at the weekend.
- (uncountable, informal) The act of catching other forms of seafood, separately or together with fish.
- (uncountable) Commercial fishing: the business or industry of catching fish and other seafood for sale.
- This is good news for the fishing industry.
- (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
- present participle of fish
Derived terms
fishing From the web:
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- what fishing line to use
- what fishing line to use for bass
- what fishing season is it in florida
- what fishing line floats
- what fishing rods are made in the usa
- what fishing pole should i buy
- what fishing rod to buy
fisking
English
Etymology
Named after journalist Robert Fisk (for the surname, see Fisk). Originated in the blogosphere.
Noun
fisking (plural fiskings)
- A rebuttal to an article or blog made by quoting its content in sections and refuting each section individually.
Related terms
- fisk
References
- Jargon file
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
fisking f or m (definite singular fiskinga or fiskingen, uncountable)
- fishing
- (in sports) to wait around the opponent's goal waiting for a pass
fisking From the web:
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