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Fishing vs Noodling - What's the difference?

fishing | noodling |

In uncountable terms the difference between fishing and noodling

is that fishing is (business of catching fish) Commercial fishing: the business or industry of catching fish and other seafood for sale while noodling is the practice and sport of noodling (fishing for catfish using the bare hands).

In countable terms the difference between fishing and noodling

is that fishing is a fishery, a place for catching fish while noodling is musical improvisation.

As an adjective fishing

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

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

    Related terms

    * (adv) piscatorially

    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

    Related terms

    * (adj) See * (adv) halieutically * (science) halieutics, piscatology * (writing on fishing) halieutics, piscatory

    Verb

    (head)

    • Derived terms

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

    noodling

    English

    (wikipedia noodling)

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The practice and sport of noodling (fishing for catfish using the bare hands).
  • (countable) Musical improvisation.
  • * 1991 , Gunther Schuller, The swing era: the development of jazz, 1930-1945
    • Unlike Basie's increasingly repetitious piano noodlings , Young's melodic gestures had a way of staying fresh and inventive.

    Derived terms

    * noodler

    Verb

    (head)