Fishing vs Hunting - What's the difference?
fishing | hunting |
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
Chasing and killing animals for sport or to get food.
* 1797 , Encyclopædia Britannica
Looking for something, especially for a job or flat.
(engineering) Fluctuating around a central value without stabilizing.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=6
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
(-)“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 spacehunting
English
Noun
- His pictures of huntings are particularly admired: the figures and animals of every species being designed with uncommon spirit, nature, and truth.
See also
*Verb
(head)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.}}