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Fishing vs Fry - What's the difference?

fishing | fry |

As an adjective fishing

is of, about, or pertaining to the act of.

As a noun fishing

is (label) the act of catching fish.

As a verb fishing

is .

As a proper noun fry is

.

fishing

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Of, about, or pertaining to the act of .
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Michael Arlen), title= “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=3/19/2
  • , 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.}}

    Synonyms

    * piscatorious, piscatory, piscatorial, piscatorical, piscatorian

    Noun

  • (label) The act of catching fish.
  • a good day's fishing
  • 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.
  • the fishing industry
  • (label) A fishery, a place for catching fish.
  • *Spenser
  • *:the rent of the fishings
  • Synonyms

    * (act) piscatology, piscation, piscicide (pejorative), piscicapture, the gentle craft * (business) fishery, the fish industry, the seafood industry * (sport) sportfishing * (place) See fishery

    Verb

    (head)
  • Derived terms

    * bottom fishing * fishing boat * fishing cat * fishing expedition * fishing ground * fishing hook * fishing line * fishing pole * fishing rod * fishing space

    fry

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) frien, from (etyl) frire, from (etyl)

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To cook (something) in hot fat.
  • To cook in hot fat.
  • (colloquial) To suffer because of too much heat.
  • You'll fry if you go out in this sun with no sunblock on.
  • (informal) To be executed by the electric chair.
  • He's guilty of murder — he's going to fry.
  • (informal) To destroy (something, usually electronic) with excessive heat, voltage, or current.
  • If you apply that much voltage, you'll fry the resistor.
    Synonyms
    * See also
    Derived terms
    * fried * frying * have other fish to fry

    Noun

    (fries)
  • (usually in plural'' fries ) (''mainly Canada and US ) A fried potato.
  • (Ireland, British) A meal of fried sausages, bacon, eggs, etc.
  • (colloquial, archaic) A state of excitement.
  • to be in a fry
    (Webster 1913)
    Synonyms
    * (fried potato''): chip (''Australia, New Zealand, UK ), fried potato * (meal of fried sausages, bacon, etc ): fry-up

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (fries)
  • Offspring; progeny; children; brood.
  • Young fish; fishlings.
  • * 1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :
  • it is not possible for man to sever the wheat from the tares, the good fish from the other frie ; that must be the Angels Ministery at the end of mortall things.
  • (archaic) A swarm, especially of something small (a fry of children ).
  • The spawn of frogs.
  • Derived terms
    * small fry English ergative verbs