English Online Dictionary. What means fishing? What does fishing mean?
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfɪʃɪŋ/
- Rhymes: -ɪʃɪŋ
- 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.
- (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.
- (countable) A fishery, a place for catching fish.
Synonyms
- (act): piscatology, piscation, piscicide (pejorative), piscicapture, the gentle craft
- (business): fishery, the fish industry, the seafood industry
- (sport): sportfishing
- (place): See fishery
Derived terms
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 and gerund of fish