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Bream vs Skimmer - What's the difference?

bream | skimmer |

As nouns the difference between bream and skimmer

is that bream is a European fresh-water cyprinoid fish of the genus Abramis, little valued as food. Several species are known while skimmer is a device that skims.

As a verb bream

is to clean (e.g. a ship's bottom of clinging shells, seaweed, etc.) by the application of fire and scraping.

bream

English

(wikipedia bream)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) braisme (compare French (compare Dutch brasem).

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A European fresh-water cyprinoid fish of the genus Abramis , little valued as food. Several species are known.
  • (British) A species in that genus, Abramis brama .
  • An American fresh-water fish, of various species of and allied genera, which are also called sunfishes and pondfishes.
  • A marine sparoid fish of the genus Pagellus , and allied genera. See sea bream.
    • Synonyms
    * (Abramis brama) carp bream
    Derived terms
    * silver bream * white bream

    Anagrams

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    Etymology 2

    Compare (broom), and (etyl) brennen (as in ein Schiff brennen ).

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (nautical) To clean (e.g. a ship's bottom of clinging shells, seaweed, etc.) by the application of fire and scraping.

    • skimmer

    English

    (wikipedia skimmer) (Rynchops)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A device that skims.
  • A person who skims.
  • Any of three species of bird in the genus Rynchops of the family Laridae, that feed by skimming the surface of water bodies with their bills in flight.
  • Any of several large bivalve shells, sometimes used for skimming milk, such as the sea clams and large scallops.
  • A ballet flat shoe.

    • Derived terms

    * black skimmer, Rynchops niger * African skimmer, Rynchops flavirostris * Indian skimmer, Rynchops albicollis