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FISHING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of someone who fishes as a diversion
Synonyms:
fishing; sportfishing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("fishing" is a kind of...):
field sport; outdoor sport (a sport that is played outdoors)
Domain member category:
bite ((angling) an instance of a fish taking the bait)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fishing"):
angling (fishing with a hook and line (and usually a pole))
cast; casting (the act of throwing a fishing line out over the water by means of a rod and reel)
Derivation:
fish (catch or try to catch fish or shellfish)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The occupation of catching fish for a living
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("fishing" is a kind of...):
business; business enterprise; commercial enterprise (the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects)
Derivation:
fish (catch or try to catch fish or shellfish)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb fish
Context examples:
The fishing scheme had been renewed the day before, and a positive engagement made of his meeting some of the gentlemen at Pemberley before noon.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
"Thank you, I prefer spiders," she replied, fishing up two unwary little ones who had gone to a creamy death.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
All commercial resource extraction activities, including commercial fishing and any future mineral extraction, are prohibited in the expansion area, as they are within the boundaries of the existing monument.
(National monument in Hawaii becomes world's largest marine protected area, NOAA)
Previous research shows that the timing and rate at which snow melts can affect the amount and quality of water available for vegetation, farming and fishing.
(Earlier snowmelt decreases streamflow, reduces forests' ability to regulate atmospheric carbon dioxide, NSF)
By using a genetic tool called DNA barcoding, Brazilian researchers could help prevent illegal fishing of threatened shark species and hence help prevent the collapse of some fisheries.
(New way to save endangered sharks – and our seafood, SciDev.Net)
Besides these, we had engaged three Mojo Indians from Bolivia, who are the most skilful at fishing and boat work of all the river tribes.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But I am not fishing; don't compliment me.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
In the lowest gallery, I beheld some people fishing with long angling rods, and others looking on.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
To Buck it was boundless delight, this hunting, fishing, and indefinite wandering through strange places.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
I thought he would be a good person to learn interesting things from, so I asked him if he would mind telling me something about the whale-fishing in the old days.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
