different between zori vs fish

English

Alternative forms

• z?ri

Etymology

From Japanese ?? (z?ri).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?z???i/
• (without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /?zo??i/

Noun

zori (plural zori or zoris)

1. A Japanese sandal made from rice straw or lacquered wood, worn with a kimono for formal occasions.
   • 1983 July, Tony Annesi, Dogu: Tools For the Way, Black Belt, page 70,

     Zori should be left at the edge of the training area so they can easily be stepped into. In Western dojo, this is sometimes impractical, but zori should at least be put on as soon as possible after leaving the training area.

   • 1984, Morgan Yamanaka, Morgan Yamanaka: Tule Lake, John Tateishi (editor), And Justice for All: An Oral History of the Japanese American Detention Camps, page 117,

     […] and they had a machine gun aimed at us, and we stood in the snow for three, four, five hours in our underwear and zoris.

   • 1997, Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha, 1998, Vintage, p. 25:

     She took a while getting her crooked feet into her zori, but finally turned toward Mr. Tanaka and gave him a look he seemed to understand at once, because he left the room, closing the door behind him.

   • 2008, Roy Inman, The Judo Handbook, page 14,

     Traditionally, zori are worn to and from the place of practice. Zori are similar to flip-flops and used to be made from straw.

2. (regional, especially Southeast US) A sandal, usually of rubber, secured to the foot by two straps mounted between the big toe and its neighbour; a flip-flop.
   • 1980, Stephen King, The Mist

     He ran back and I watched him go, legs pumping, soles of his zori showing.

Synonyms

• (an item of footwear): see list in flip-flop

See also

• geta (clogs)

Anagrams

• Rizo

Basque

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): /s?o.?i/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Basque *zori (“bird, luck”).

Noun

zori inan

1. luck, chance, fate, fortune

   Synonym: adur

Declension

Etymology 2

Adjective

zori (comparative zoriago, superlative zorien, excessive zoriegi)

1. mature, ripe

Declension

Further reading

• “zori” in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia, euskaltzaindia.eus
• “zori” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia, euskaltzaindia.eus

Romanian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *zorja. See also zare. Compare Bulgarian ???? (zora), Serbo-Croatian zora, Aromanian ndzari

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?zor?/

Noun

zori m pl (plural only)

1. daybreak, dawn

See also

• auror? f
• r?s?rit n
• alba f

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

zori (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. dative/locative singular of zora

Slovene

Noun

zori

1. inflection of zora:
   1. dative/locative singular
   2. nominative/accusative dual

Verb

zori

1. third-person singular present of zoreti

Torres Strait Creole

Noun

zori

1. (western dialect) cicada

References

• Shnukal, Anna. (1994) 'Torres Strait Creole' in Macquarie Aboriginal Words, p. 388.

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: f?sh, IPA^(key): /f??/
• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /f??/
• Rhymes: -??
• Homophones: phish, ghoti

Etymology 1

From Middle English fisch, from Old English fis? (“fish”), from Proto-West Germanic *fisk, from Proto-Germanic *fiskaz (“fish”) (compare West Frisian fisk, Dutch vis, Danish fisk, Norwegian fisk, Swedish fisk, German Fisch), from Proto-Indo-European *peys?- (“fish”) (compare Irish iasc, Latin piscis).

Noun

fish (countable and uncountable, plural fish or fishes)

1. (countable) A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.

2. (archaic or loosely) Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water.
3. (Newfoundland) Cod; codfish.
4. (uncountable) The flesh of the fish used as food.

5. (uncountable) A card game in which the object is to obtain cards in pairs or sets of four (depending on the variation), by asking the other players for cards of a particular rank.
6. (uncountable, derogatory, slang) A woman.
7. (countable, slang) An easy victim for swindling.
8. (countable, poker slang) A bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player).
9. (countable, nautical) A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish, used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.
10. (nautical) A purchase used to fish the anchor.
11. (countable, nautical, military) A torpedo (the self-propelled explosive device).
    • 1977, Richard O'Kane, Clear the Bridge: The War Patrols of the U.S.S. Tang, Ballantine Books (2003), page 344:

      The second and third fish went to the middle of her long superstructure and under her forward deck.

12. (zoology) A paraphyletic grouping of the following extant taxonomic groups:
    1. Class Myxini, the hagfish (no vertebra)
    2. Class Petromyzontida, the lampreys (no jaw)
    3. Within infraphylum Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates (also including Tetrapoda)
       1. Class Chondrichthyes, cartilaginous fish such as sharks and rays
       2. Superclass Osteichthyes, bony fish.
13. (cartomancy) The thirty-fourth Lenormand card.
14. (prison slang) a new (usually vulnerable) prisoner

Usage notes

The collective plural of fish is normally fish in the UK, except in archaic texts where fishes may be encountered; in the US, fishes is encountered as well, but much less commonly. When referring to two or more kinds of fish, the plural is fishes.

Synonyms

• (potential swindling victim): mark
• (card game): Go Fish
• (bad poker player): donkey, donk

Hyponyms

• (aquatic cold-blooded vertabrae with gills): Cephalaspidomorphi, Chondrichthyes, Osteichthyes
• (food): seafood

Derived terms

Related terms

• (adj): fishly, piscine, fishy (inf.)
• (astronomical): The Fish, Pisces
• (collective): piscifauna
• (combinatorial form): pisci- (Latinate, general)
• (fish-catcher): See fisher
• (fish-eater): piscivore
• (fish-infesting): piscolous
• (fish-killing): piscicidal
• (fish-like): fishly, piscose (culinary), fishy, fishlike (inf.)
• (fish science): fishlore, piscatology (irreg.)
• (fish-shaped): pisciform
• (fish vendor): fishmonger, piscitarian
• (full of fish): fishful, pisculent
• (skin disorder): fish-skin disease
• (state of being a fish): fishdom, fishhood (formal), piscinity (formal), fishiness (inf.)

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: fisi
• ? Chinook Jargon: pish
• ? Finnish: fisu
• ? Zulu: ufishi

Translations

See fish/translations § Noun.

See also

• Appendix:Fish

Etymology 2

Deverbal from to fish (etymology 3).

Noun

fish (plural fishes)

1. A period of time spent fishing.

2. An instance of seeking something.

Etymology 3

From Old English fiscian, from Proto-West Germanic *fisk?n, from Proto-Germanic *fisk?n?.

Verb

fish (third-person singular simple present fishes, present participle fishing, simple past and past participle fished)

1. (intransitive) To hunt fish or other aquatic animals in a body of water.
   • 19th c., anonymous, "The Bonny Ship the 'Diamond'"

     It's cheer up, my lads, let your hearts never fail,

     For the bonny ship the Diamond goes a-fishing for the whale.

   She went to the river to fish for trout.

2. (transitive) To search (a body of water) for something other than fish.

3. (fishing, transitive) To use as bait when fishing.
4. (intransitive) To (attempt to) find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.

   Synonym: rummage

5. (intransitive, followed by "for" or "around for") To talk to people in an attempt to get them to say something, or seek to obtain something by artifice.
   • 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:

     Laoctonos is fishing for a compliment,
     But ’tis his due. Yes, you have drunk more wine,
     And shed more blood, than any man in Thebes.

6. (intransitive, cricket) Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.
7. (nautical, transitive) To repair (a spar or mast) by fastening a beam or other long object (often called a fish) over the damaged part (see Noun above).
   • 1970, James Henderson, The Frigates, an account of the lesser warships of the wars from 1793 to 1815, Wordsworth (1998), page 143:

     […] the crew were set to replacing and splicing the rigging and fishing the spars.

8. (nautical, transitive) To hoist the flukes of.
   • 1860, Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons (page 214)

     Found that the cause of the ship's having drifted on the night of the 19th, was from the bight of the chain span (used to fish the anchor,) having slipped between the shank and upper fluke, thereby preventing the lower fluke from opening […]

Synonyms

• (try to catch a fish): angle, drop in a line
• (try to find something): rifle, rummage
• (attempt to gain (compliments, etc)): angle

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 4

Borrowed from French fiche (“peg, mark”).

Noun

fish (plural fishes)

1. (obsolete) A counter, used in various games.

References

• fish in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Further reading

• Fish (disambiguation) on the English Wikipedia. English Wikipedia
• fish on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• fish (food) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• fishing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Middle English

Noun

fish (plural fishes or fish)

1. Alternative form of fisch