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Fishing vs Hunting - What's the difference?

fishing | hunting |

As nouns the difference between fishing and hunting

is that fishing is the act of catching fish while hunting is chasing and killing animals for sport or to get food.

As verbs the difference between fishing and hunting

is that fishing is present participle of lang=en while hunting is present participle of lang=en.

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

    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

    hunting

    English

    Noun

  • Chasing and killing animals for sport or to get food.
  • * 1797 , Encyclopædia Britannica
  • His pictures of huntings are particularly admired: the figures and animals of every species being designed with uncommon spirit, nature, and truth.
  • Looking for something, especially for a job or flat.
  • (engineering) Fluctuating around a central value without stabilizing.
  • See also

    *

    Verb

    (head)
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=6 citation , passage=Even in an era when individuality in dress is a cult, his clothes were noticeable. He was wearing a hard hat of the low round kind favoured by hunting men, and with it a black duffle-coat lined with white.}}

    Derived terms

    * hunting ground * job-hunting * house-hunting