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Definitions: Billfish |
BillfishNoun1. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth. 2. Giant warm-water game fish having a prolonged and rounded toothless upper jaw. 3. Slender long-beaked fish of temperate Atlantic waters. 4. Elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: BillfishSynonyms: gar (n), garfish (n), garpike (n), needlefish (n), saury (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Billfish |
| English words defined with "billfish": Silver gar. (references) |
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 | Billfish are caught by charter boats off Cape Hatteras.Credit: Fisheries. |  | A dedicated fisherman's mailbox sports a billfish.Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Blue marlin being brought to gaff as judges of the Hawaiian International Billfish Tournament look on.Credit: Fisheries. |  | Angler standing next to 170 pound Yellowfin tuna caught during Hawaiian International Billfish Tournament.Credit: Fisheries. |
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| "Billfish" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Billfish" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
billfish | 39 | billfish sperry toggle | 3 |
billfish tournament | 16 | bay billfish point tournament | 3 |
billfish foundation | 13 | bay billfish point | 3 |
sperry billfish | 10 | bahamas billfish | 2 |
bahamas billfish championship | 9 | uss billfish | 2 |
bahamas billfish tournament | 7 | billfish capri isle tournament | 2 |
billfish grill | 6 | fly fishing for billfish | 2 |
billfish series world | 5 | billfish tour | 2 |
billfish shore sperry | 5 | billfish classic coast emerald | 2 |
billfish picture | 3 | billfish coast gulf mississippi tournament | 2 |
billfish biloxi tournament | 2 | ||
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| Language | Translations for "billfish"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | makrelgedde (Atlantic saury, needlenose, saury, saury pike, skipper), hornfisk (garfish, garpike, greenbone, hornpike, mackerel guide, needlefish, sea gar, sea needle), almindelig makrelgedde (Atlantic saury, needlenose, saury, saury pike, skipper), almindelig hornfisk (garfish, garpike, greenbone, hornpike, mackerel guide, needlefish, sea gar, sea needle, seaneedle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | makreelgeep (Atlantic saury, needlenose, saury, saury pike, skipper), geep (garfish, garpike, greenbone, hornpike, mackerel guide, needlefish, sea gar, sea needle, seaneedle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | nokkakala (garfish, garpike, greenbone, hornpike, mackerel guide, needlefish, sea gar, sea needle), makrillihauki (Atlantic saury, needlenose, saury pike, skipper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | balaou de l'Atlantique, balaou atlantique, balaou, orphie commune, orphie, aiguillette, aiguille de mer. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Makrelenhecht (Atlantic saury, needlenose, saury, saury pike, skipper), Hornhecht (garfish, garpike, greenbone, hornpike, mackerel guide, needlefish, sea gar, sea needle, seaneedle), Hornfisch (garfish, garpike, greenbone, hornpike, mackerel guide, needlefish, sea gar, sea needle, seaneedle), Grünknochen (garfish, garpike, greenbone, hornpike, mackerel guide, needlefish, sea gar, sea needle, seaneedle), Europäischer Hornhecht (garfish, garpike, greenbone, hornpike, mackerel guide, needlefish, sea gar, sea needle, seaneedle), Atlantischer Makrelenhecht (Atlantic saury, needlenose, saury, saury pike, skipper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σάργομος (garfish, garpike, greenbone, hornpike, mackerel guide, needlefish, sea gar, sea needle), βελονίδι (garfish, garpike, greenbone, hornpike, mackerel guide, needlefish, sea gar, sea needle), βελονίδα (Atlantic saury, needlenose, saury pike, skipper), ζαργάνα (Atlantic saury, garfish, garpike, greenbone, hornpike, mackerel guide, needlefish, needlenose, saury pike, sea gar, sea needle, skipper), λουτσοζαργάνα (Atlantic saury, needlenose, saury pike, skipper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | Belone vulgaris (garfish, garpike, greenbone, hornpike, mackerel guide, sea gar, sea needle, seaneedle), Belone euxini (garfish, garpike, greenbone, hornpike, mackerel guide, sea gar, sea needle, seaneedle), Belone acus (garfish, garpike, greenbone, hornpike, mackerel guide, sea gar, sea needle, seaneedle), costardella (Atlantic saury, needlenose, saury, saury pike, skipper), aguglia saira (Atlantic saury, needlenose, saury, saury pike, skipper), aguglia (garfish, garpike, greenbone, hornpike, mackerel guide, needlefish, sea gar, sea needle, seaneedle), agora (garfish, garpike, greenbone, hornpike, mackerel guide, needlefish, sea gar, sea needle, seaneedle), \GAR (garfish, garpike, greenbone, hornpike, mackerel guide, sea gar, sea needle, seaneedle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | illfishbay peixe-agulha (garfish, gargantuan, garpike, greenbone, hornpike, mackerel guide, needlefish, needleful, sea gar, sea needle, seaneedle, sword-fish), agulhao (Atlantic saury, needlenose, saury, saury pike, skipper), agulhão (Atlantic saury, needlefish, needlenose, saury pike, skipper, sword-fish), agulha (broach, compass, garfish, garpike, gorge, greenbone, hornpike, mackerel guide, needle, needlefish, pin, point, points, reproducing stylus, roasting jack, sea gar, sea needle, seaneedle, spire, spur, stylus, switch, top of shoulder, turnout, withers). (various references) saltarín (Atlantic saury, needlenose, saury, saury pike, skipper), saltón (garfish, garpike, greenbone, hornpike, mackerel guide, needlefish, prominent, protruding, protuberant, sea gar, sea needle, seaneedle), relazón (Atlantic saury, needlenose, saury, saury pike, skipper), paparda del Atlántico (Atlantic saury, needlenose, saury, saury pike, skipper), paparda (Atlantic saury, needlenose, saury, saury pike, skipper), agujilla (Atlantic saury, needlenose, saury, saury pike, skipper), agujeta (garfish, garpike, greenbone, hornpike, lace, mackerel guide, needlefish, sea gar, sea needle, seaneedle), agujón (Atlantic saury, needlenose, saury, saury pike, skipper), aguja (broach, cannula, garfish, garpike, greenbone, hand, hornpike, mackerel guide, Marlin, needle, needlefish, pin, pin insulation, pipefish, pointer, points, sea gar, sea needle, seaneedle, shaft, spire, steeple, stylus, switch, tensor fasciae latae, turnout). (various references) näbbgädda (garfish, garpike, greenbone, hornpike, mackerel guide, minx, needlefish, sea gar, sea needle), makrillgädda (Atlantic saury, needlenose, saury pike, skipper), horngädda (garfish, garpike, greenbone, hornpike, mackerel guide, needlefish, sea gar, sea needle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Belone acus, Belone belone, Belone belone(Linnaeus,1761), Belone euxini, Belone vulgaris, Scomberesox saurus, Scomberesox saurus(Walbaum,1792). (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "billfish": billfishes. (additional references) | |
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"Billfish" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: biglifs, Bilqis, nilfisk. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-f-h-i-i-l-l-s" | |
-3 letters: bills, fills, hills, shill. | |
-4 letters: bill, fibs, fill, fils, fish, hili, hill, ibis, ills, libs, sill. | |
-5 letters: bis, fib, fil, his, ifs, ill, lib, lis, sib. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-f-h-i-i-l-l-s" | |
+2 letters: billfishes. | |
+5 letters: bullfightings. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 69 6C 6C 66 69 73 68 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .. .-.. .-.. ..-. .. ... .... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01101001 01101100 01101100 01100110 01101001 01110011 01101000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B i l l f i s h |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0069 006C 006C 0066 0069 0073 0068 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3675787872758574 |
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