Fishing vs Fisher - What's the difference?
fishing | fisher |
Of, about, or pertaining to the act of .
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, passage=Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house?; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something?; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.}}
(label) The act of catching fish.
The act of catching other forms of seafood, separately or together with fish.
(senseid)(uncountable) Commercial fishing: the business or industry of catching fish and other seafood for sale.
(label) A fishery, a place for catching fish.
*Spenser
*:the rent of the fishings
A person who catches fish, especially for a living.
A person attempting to catch fish.
A ship used for fishing.
A North American marten, , that has thick brown fur.
* 1969 , Rutherford George Montgomery, The Living Wilderness ,
* 1998 , Thomas E. Kucera, American Marten, Fisher, Lynx, and Wolverine: Survey Methods for Their Detection ,
* 2003 , Cynthia J. Zabel, Robert G. Anthony, Mammal Community Dynamics ,
The fur of Martes pennanti .
As nouns the difference between fishing and fisher
is that fishing is (label) the act of catching fish while fisher is a person who catches fish, especially for a living or fisher can be a north american marten, , that has thick brown fur.As a adjective fishing
is of, about, or pertaining to the act of.As a verb fishing
is .fishing
English
Adjective
(-)“Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=3/19/2
Synonyms
* piscatorious, piscatory, piscatorial, piscatorical, piscatorianNoun
- a good day's fishing
- the fishing industry
Synonyms
* (act) piscatology, piscation, piscicide (pejorative), piscicapture, the gentle craft * (business) fishery, the fish industry, the seafood industry * (sport) sportfishing * (place) See fisheryVerb
(head)Derived terms
* bottom fishing * fishing boat * fishing cat * fishing expedition * fishing ground * fishing hook * fishing line * fishing pole * fishing rod * fishing spacefisher
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(en noun)Usage notes
Traditionally less common than fisherman, "fisher" is gaining in use as a more gender-inclusive alternative.Synonyms
* (catcher of wild fish) fisherman, angler, piscary, piscator, piscatorian, piscatorialist, piscicapturist * (catcher of captive fish) fish farmer, pisciculturist * (ship) fishermanEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)page 13,
- In many ways the fisher resembles the pine marten, possessing many of the marten's tricks and manners.
page 62,
- In the southeastern United States, Krohn et al. (1994) hypothesize that the inverse relationship between captures of fishers' and martens by commercial trappers may result from an interaction between competitive displacement of marten by '''fisher''' and the avoidance of areas with deep and frequent snowfalls by ' fishers but not martens.
page 207,
- The term "forest carnivores" denotes a smaller group of four species - the marten, fisher , lynx, and wolverine - and is only marginally descriptive, inasmuch as it excludes many carnivores that live in forests, and includes the wolverine, which can thrive in the complete absence of trees.
