different between fishing vs piscatory

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

Etymology

From Latin pisc?tor (“fisherman”), from piscis (“fish”).

Adjective

piscatory (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to fishermen or fishing.
   • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. 5, Twelfth Century

     The Ribble and the Aire roll down, as yet unpolluted by dyers' chemistry; tenanted by merry trouts and piscatory otters.

2. Of or pertaining to fish; piscine.
   • 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, ch. 4,

     The air among the houses was of so strong a piscatory flavour that one might have supposed sick fish went up to be dipped in it.

Synonyms

• piscatorial

Related terms

• piscatory ring

Translations

References

• “piscatory” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
• Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.