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Definition: Garfish |
GarfishNoun1. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "garfish" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1902. (references) |
Note: Garfish \Gar"fish`\, noun. [See Gar, noun.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: GarfishSynonyms: billfish (n), gar (n), garpike (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Garfish |
| English words defined with "garfish": Girrock, Gorebill, Greenbone, Guardfish ♦ Hornfish, Hornpike ♦ Longnose ♦ mackerel guide ♦ Sea needle, Sea pike. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Garfish" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Garfish" 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 |
garfish | 25 |
alligator garfish | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "garfish"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | الخرمان سمك. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | вид риба (duckbill, runner, saury, scup, sheep's head, snapper, yellow belly). (various references) | |
Czech | ryba (cow-fish, crawfish, fish, goldfish, grouper, gurnard, hake, loach, saury, shad). (various references) | |
Danish | hornfisk (billfish, garpike, greenbone, hornpike, mackerel guide, needlefish, sea gar, sea needle), almindelig hornfisk (billfish, garpike, greenbone, hornpike, mackerel guide, needlefish, sea gar, sea needle, seaneedle). (various references) | |
Dutch | geep (billfish, garpike, greenbone, hornpike, mackerel guide, needlefish, sea gar, sea needle, seaneedle). (various references) | |
Finnish | nokkakala (billfish, garpike, greenbone, hornpike, mackerel guide, needlefish, sea gar, sea needle). (various references) | |
French | orphie (garpike, sea gar). (various references) | |
German | Grünknochen (billfish, garpike, greenbone, hornpike, mackerel guide, needlefish, sea gar, sea needle, seaneedle), Hornhecht (billfish, garpike, greenbone, hornpike, mackerel guide, needlefish, sea gar, sea needle, seaneedle), Hornfisch (billfish, garpike, greenbone, hornpike, mackerel guide, needlefish, sea gar, sea needle, seaneedle), Europäischer Hornhecht (billfish, garpike, greenbone, hornpike, mackerel guide, needlefish, sea gar, sea needle, seaneedle). (various references) | |
Greek | σάργομος (billfish, garpike, greenbone, hornpike, mackerel guide, needlefish, sea gar, sea needle), βελονίδι (billfish, garpike, greenbone, hornpike, mackerel guide, needlefish, sea gar, sea needle), ζαργάνα (Atlantic saury, billfish, garpike, greenbone, hornpike, mackerel guide, needlefish, needlenose, saury pike, sea gar, sea needle, skipper). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tûhal (needle-fish, pipe fish). (various references) | |
Italian | Belone vulgaris (billfish, garpike, greenbone, hornpike, mackerel guide, sea gar, sea needle, seaneedle), Belone euxini (billfish, garpike, greenbone, hornpike, mackerel guide, sea gar, sea needle, seaneedle), Belone acus (billfish, garpike, greenbone, hornpike, mackerel guide, sea gar, sea needle, seaneedle), aguglia (billfish, garpike, greenbone, hornpike, mackerel guide, needlefish, sea gar, sea needle, seaneedle), agora (billfish, garpike, greenbone, hornpike, mackerel guide, needlefish, sea gar, sea needle, seaneedle), \GAR (billfish, garpike, greenbone, hornpike, mackerel guide, sea gar, sea needle, seaneedle). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 鱚 (silaginoid). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きす (silaginoid, to expect, to look forward to). (various references) | |
Manx | snaid varrey (pipefish, tiddler). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | arfishgay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | verdura (green, greenery, greenpeak, verdancy, verdure, viridity), peixe-agulha (billfish, gargantuan, garpike, greenbone, hornpike, mackerel guide, needlefish, needleful, sea gar, sea needle, seaneedle, sword-fish), agulha (billfish, broach, compass, 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) | |
Russian | сарган. (various references) | |
Spanish | aguja (billfish, broach, cannula, 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) | |
Swedish | näbbgädda (billfish, garpike, greenbone, hornpike, mackerel guide, minx, needlefish, sea gar, sea needle), horngädda (billfish, garpike, greenbone, hornpike, mackerel guide, needlefish, sea gar, sea needle). (various references) | |
Turkish | zargana (gar, needlefish), turnabalığı (Luce, pickerel, Pike). (various references) | |
Ukranian | сарган, морська щука (barracuda). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Belone acus, Belone belone, Belone belone(Linnaeus,1761), Belone euxini, Belone vulgaris. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "garfish": garfishes. (additional references) | |
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"Garfish" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: garmish, garrish, giraffish. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-g-h-i-r-s" | |
-1 letter: garish, sharif. | |
-2 letters: fairs, fiars, frags, frigs, girsh, hafis, hairs, ragis. | |
-3 letters: airs, arfs, fags, fair, fash, fiar, figs, firs, fish, frag, frig, gars, gash, ghis, hags, hair, ragi, rags, rash, rias, rifs, rigs, sari, shag, shri, sigh. | |
-4 letters: air, ais, arf, ars, ash, fag, far, fas, fig, fir, gar, gas, ghi, hag, has, his, ifs, rag, rah, ras, ria, rif, rig, sag, sha, sir, sri. | |
-5 letters: ag, ah, ai, ar, as, fa, ha, hi, if, is, sh, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-f-g-h-i-r-s" | |
+1 letter: grayfish. | |
+2 letters: affrights, farthings, garfishes, gearshift, giraffish, hangfires. | |
+3 letters: anglerfish, farsighted, gearshifts, grayfishes, guitarfish. | |
+4 letters: airfreights, crawfishing, featherings, figureheads, franchising, freightages, wharfingers. | |
+5 letters: anglerfishes, cliffhangers, farsightedly, farthingales, guitarfishes, refashioning, spearfishing. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 61 72 66 69 73 68 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. .- .-. ..-. .. ... .... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01100001 01110010 01100110 01101001 01110011 01101000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G a r f i s h |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0061 0072 0066 0069 0073 0068 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)41678472758574 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Translations: Ancient | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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