different between perch vs barse

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p??t?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /p?t?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t?

Etymology 1

From Middle English perche, from Old French perche, from Latin perca, from Ancient Greek ????? (pérk?, “perch”), cognate with ??????? (perknós, “dark-spotted”).

Noun

perch (plural perches or perch)

1. Any of the three species of spiny-finned freshwater fish in the genus Perca.
2. Any of the about 200 related species of fish in the taxonomic family Percidae, especially:
   1. (South Africa) Acanthopagrus berda
   2. (Ghana) Distichodus engycephalus, Distichodus rostratus
   3. (Australia) Johnius belangerii, Macquaria ambigua, Macquaria colonorum, Macquaria novemaculeata, Nemadactylus macropterus
   4. (US) Kyphosus azureus
   5. (Britain) Lateolabrax japonicus, Tautogolabrus adspersus
3. Several similar species in the order Perciformes, such as the grouper.

Hyponyms

• (fish in genus Perca): Balkhash perch, European perch, yellow perch
• (fish in family Percidae): darter, pike-perch, zander
• (fish in order Perciformes): bass

Derived terms

• American perch (Perca flavescens)
• Balkhash perch (Perca schrenkii)
• bass perch (Morone americana)
• black perch (Embiotoca jacksoni)
• blue perch (Badis badis)
• bluenose perch (Morone americana)
• great perch (Nemadactylus douglasii)
• gray perch (Morone americana)
• lake perch (Perca flavescens)
• logperch
• perch pest
• perchlet
• pikeperch
• raccoon perch (Perca flavescens)
• red perch
  • red gurnard perch (Helicolenus percoides)
  • rose fish (Sebastes norvegicus)
  • Pacific ocean perch (Sebastes alutus)
  • Japanese red seaperch (Sebastes inermis)
  • barber perch (Caesioperca rasor)
• red-bellied perch (Lepomis auritus)
• ring-tail perch (Perca flavescens)
• ringed perch (Perca flavescens)
• rockperch (Girella tricuspidata)
• sandperch
• sea perch (Morone americana)
• seaperch
• silver perch (Morone americana)
• stone perch (Acerina cernua)
• striped perch (Perca flavescens)
• surfperch
• trout-perch (Persopsis omiscomaycus)
• white perch (Morone americana)
• yellow perch (Perca flavescens)

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English perche, from Old French perche, from Latin pertica (“staff”, “long pole”, “measuring rod”).

Noun

perch (plural perches or perch)

1. A rod, staff, or branch of a tree etc used as a roost by a bird.
   • 1859, Alfred Tennyson, Idylls of the King, Dedication

     Not making his high place the lawless perch / Of winged ambitions.

2. A pole connecting the fore gear and hind gear of a spring carriage; a reach.
3. (figuratively) A position that is secure and advantageous, especially one which is prominent or elevated.
4. (figuratively) A position that is overly elevated or haughty.

5. (dated) A linear measure of 5+¹?₂ yards, equal to a rod, a pole or ¹?₄ chain; the related square measure.
6. A cubic measure of stonework equal to 16.6 × 1.5 × 1 feet.
7. (textiles) A frame used to examine cloth.
8. A bar used to support a candle, especially in a church.
9. (theater) A platform for lights to be directed at the stage.

Derived terms

• knock someone off his perch

Translations

Verb

perch (third-person singular simple present perches, present participle perching, simple past and past participle perched)

1. (intransitive) To rest on a perch (especially, of a bird); to roost.

2. (intransitive) To sit upon the edge of something.
3. (intransitive) To stay in an elevated position.
4. (transitive) To place something on (or as if on) a perch.
5. (transitive, intransitive, textiles) To inspect cloth using a perch.

Translations

Middle English

Noun

perch

1. Alternative form of perche (“pole”)

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /b??s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /b???s/

Etymology 1

From Middle English bars, from Old English bærs (“a fish, perch”), from Proto-West Germanic *bars, from Proto-Germanic *barsaz (“perch”, literally “prickly”). Cognate with Dutch baars (“perch, bass”), German Barsch (“perch”). More at bass (“fish”).

Noun

barse (plural barses)

1. The perch; any of various marine and freshwater fish resembling the perch.

Related terms

• bass

Translations

Etymology 2

Blend of balls +? arse.

Noun

barse (plural barses)

1. (Britain, vulgar, slang) The perineum of a man.
   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:barse.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:perineum.

Anagrams

• BSAer, Bares, Brase, Breas, Saber, bares, baser, bears, besra, braes, rabes, saber, sabre