different between perch vs porch

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

Etymology

From Middle English porche, from Old French, from Latin porticus (“portico”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p??t?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /p??t?/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /po(?)?t?/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /po?t?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t?

Noun

porch (plural porches)

1. (architecture) A covered and enclosed entrance to a building, whether taken from the interior, and forming a sort of vestibule within the main wall, or projecting without and with a separate roof.
2. A portico; a covered walk.
3. The platform outside the external hatch of a spacecraft.
   • 2012, Courtney G. Brooks, James M. Grimwood, Loyd S. Swenson, Chariots for Apollo

     By the time he had put on the backpack, McDivitt was ready to let him do more—to stand on the porch at least.

Synonyms

• see Thesaurus:porch

Derived terms

• back porch
• front porch
• porch monkey
• snow porch
• wet porch

Translations

• Icelandic: ^{(please verify)} verönd f

See also

• loggia
• porte-cochère