Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
Definitions: Halibut |
HalibutNoun1. Lean flesh of very large flatfish of Atlantic or Pacific. 2. Marine food fish of North Atlantic or North Pacific; the largest flatfish and one of the largest teleost fishes. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "halibut" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1894. (references) |
Etymology: Halibut \Hal"i*but\, noun. [from Old English expression hali holy but, butte, flounder; akin to Dutch bot, German butte; compare to Dutch heilbot, German heilbutt. So named as being eaten on holidays. See Holy, Holiday.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Slang | Adjective. Source: Originated from "hella butt." . Definition: A very ugly thing (usually a girl). Context: Used to describe a noun. Social Source: Westchester Heights, Bronx, NY 10461. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In Canadian and U.S. waters of the North Pacific, halibut are taken by longline, using chunks of octopus ("devilfish") or other bait on hooks attached at regular intervals to a weighted line which can extend for several miles across the bottom. Typically the fishing vessel hauls gear after several hours to a day has passed. Careful international management of Pacific halibut is necessary, as the species occupies the waters of the United States, Canada, Russia, and possibly Japan, and is a slow-maturing fish. Halibut do not reproduce until age eight, when they are approximately 30 inches (76 cm) long, so capture of fish below this length is an unsustainable practice and is against U.S. and Canadian regulations.
The commercial halibut fishery in the North Pacific dates to the late 19th century, but halibut have been an important food source to Native Americans and Native Canadians for thousands of years. There is also a significant sport fishery in Alaska and British Columbia. Halibut are not known as fighting fish, but their size and the weather conditions that often prevail in their native waters can make them a dangerous quarry.
Other species of halibut include:
For more information about halibut and the North Pacific fishery, visit the website of the International Pacific Halibut Commission: http://www.iphc.washington.edu/halcom
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Halibut."
Synonym: HalibutSynonym: holibut (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Halibut |
| English words defined with "halibut": Atlantic halibut ♦ flitch ♦ Ground fish ♦ halibut-liver oil, Heterosomata, Heterosomati ♦ order Heterosomata, order Pleuronectiformes ♦ Pacific halibut, Pug-nose eel ♦ Roundfish ♦ Salve bug. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "halibut": Thornbut. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Yes, you did. And after we've had your halibut steak and tartar sauce, I get to watch you Saran Wrap the leftovers. (The Odd Couple; writing credit: Neil Simon) We got the Halibut Calabrese, the Halibut Olympian. (Insomnia; writing credit: Nikolaj Frobenius; Erik Skjoldbjærg) | |
Movie/TV Titles | To Catch a Halibut (1976) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title | ||
Books |
| ||
Theater & Movies | |||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Halibut.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Large halibut.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| "Halibut" is generally used as a noun (common) -- approximately 57.14% of the time. "Halibut" is used about 21 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 (common) | 57.14% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Noun (singular) | 38.1% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.76% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 21 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "halibut": Atlantic halibut ♦ Halibut Cove ♦ Pacific halibut. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "halibut": halibut-liver oil. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
halibut | 1,531 |
halibut recipe | 318 |
halibut fishing | 135 |
grilled halibut | 39 |
halibut picture | 27 |
cooking halibut | 24 |
halibut charter | 21 |
halibut fishing vancouver island | 18 |
baked halibut | 17 |
halibut charter alaska | 17 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "halibut"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shojzë e atlantikut verior. (various references) | |
Arabic | هلبوت سمك, أضخم الأسماك المفلطحة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | вид камбала. (various references) | |
Chinese | 大"目鱼. (various references) | |
Czech | platejs (flatfish, plaice). (various references) | |
Danish | helleflynder (Atlantic halibut). (various references) | |
Dutch | heilbot (Atlantic halibut). (various references) | |
Esperanto | hipogloso. (various references) | |
Faeroese | kalvi. (various references) | |
Farsi | هالیبوت . (various references) | |
Finnish | ruijanpallas (Atlantic halibut). (various references) | |
French | flétan (Atlantic halibut). (various references) | |
German | Heilbutt (Atlantic halibut). (various references) | |
Greek | χάλιμπατ του Ατλαντικού (Atlantic halibut), χάλιμπατ (Atlantic halibut), είδοσ βακαλάου (bib), ψήσσα (flounder, plaice). (various references) | |
Hungarian | óriási laposhal. (various references) | |
Italian | halibut (Atlantic halibut, atlantic halibut(= fish)), ippoglosso atlantico (Atlantic halibut), a met (half, halfway). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 鮃 (flatfish, flounder), 平目 (flatfish, flounder). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ひらめ (flatfish, flounder). (various references) | |
Manx | liehbage chasherick. (various references) | |
Norwegian | kveite, hellefisk. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | alibuthay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | hipoglosso (hypoglossal), semestre (half, semester), alabote do Atlântico (Atlantic halibut). (various references) | |
Russian | палтус (turbot). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | iverak (butt, flounder, fluke, turbot). (various references) | |
Spanish | hipogloso (Atlantic halibut). (various references) | |
Swedish | helgeflundra, hälleflundra (Atlantic halibut). (various references) | |
Turkish | kalkana benzer yassı balık. (various references) | |
Ukranian | палтус (turbot). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | cá bơn lưỡi ngựa món cá bơn halibut. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Hippoglossus hippoglossus, Hippoglossus hippoglossus (Linnaeus), Hippoglossus vulgaris. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "halibut": halibuts. (additional references) | |
| |
"Halibut" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: haibu, Halaicu, Halbouty, halibin, hallbut, Haribul, heiligblut, Jalbut, railbuf. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "halibut" (pronounced ha"lubut) |
| 5 | -l u b u t | celibate. |
| 3 | -b u t | abbot, cohabit, exhibit, habit, inhabit, inhibit, jackrabbit, obit, orbit, prohibit, sherbet. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-h-i-l-t-u" | |
-1 letter: tabuli, thulia. | |
-2 letters: baith, built, habit, laith, lathi, tubal. | |
-3 letters: abut, alit, baht, bail, bait, bath, bhut, blah, blat, buhl, habu, hail, halt, haul, haut, hila, hilt, hula, lath, lati, litu, tabu, tail, tali, tuba. | |
-4 letters: ail, ait, alb, alt, bah, bal, bat, bit, but, hat, hit, hub, hut, lab, lat, lib, lit, tab, tau, til, tub, tui, uta. | |
-5 letters: ab, ah, ai, al, at, ba, bi, ha, hi, it, la, li, ta, ti, uh, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-h-i-l-t-u" | |
+1 letter: habitual, halibuts. | |
+2 letters: thumbnail. | |
+3 letters: habitually, thumbnails. | |
+4 letters: exhaustible, unthinkable, unthinkably. | |
+5 letters: brushability, habitualness, uncharitable, uncharitably. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 61 6C 69 62 75 74 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
|
| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
|
| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
|
| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
|
Morse Code (1836) (references).... .- .-.. .. -... ..- - |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
|
Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100001 01101100 01101001 01100010 01110101 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H a l i b u t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0061 006C 0069 0062 0075 0074 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
|
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)42677875688786 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Translations: Ancient | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Orthography | 17. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
