Sardine vs Anchovy - What's the difference?
sardine | anchovy |
Any one of several species of small herring which are commonly preserved in olive oil or in tins for food, especially the pilchard, or (European sardine) () is similar. The American sardines of the Atlantic coast are mostly the young of the common herring and of the menhaden.
(label) carnelian
* (rfdate) Rev 4:3 KJV
(label) Someone packed or crammed into a small space.
to fish for sardines
* 1997 , Peter Landesman, The raven: a novel
to pack or cram together tightly.
* 1954 , Tom McCahill, The modern sports car
* 1986 , The New Yorker - Volumen 62 ,
* 2007 , Julie Kavanagh, Nureyev: The Life
Any small saltwater fish of the Engraulidae family, consisting of 160 species in 16 genera, of which the genus is widely sold as food.
As nouns the difference between sardine and anchovy
is that sardine is any one of several species of small herring which are commonly preserved in olive oil or in tins for food, especially the pilchard, or European sardine (species: Clupea pichardus). The California sardine (species: Clupea sagax) is similar. The American sardines of the Atlantic coast are mostly the young of the common herring and of the menhaden while anchovy is any small saltwater fish of the Engraulidae family, consisting of 160 species in 16 genera, of which the genus genus: Engraulis is widely sold as food.As a verb sardine
is to fish for sardines.sardine
English
(wikipedia sardine)Noun
(en noun)- And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.
Derived terms
* sardinelike * sardinerVerb
(sardin)- No one on Monhegan says they saw them, but a man sardining says he saw it headed there, or at least some boat with people atop it.
- Six-foot- four McMichael (a past master at the art of sardining ) not only crammed enough clothes for the trip into the mighty midget, but carried a full set of golf clubs and a banjo, as well!
- Would it be unbearably elitist to suggest that they would be more enjoyable still if the director removed a row or two of chairs, instead of sardining as many listeners as possible into the intimate music room?
- There were already six members of the Nureyev family living in a room sixteen meters square, the children sardined on one mattress on the floor, their parents separated by only a curtain.