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Definition: Fishing Net |
Fishing NetNoun1. A net that will enclose fish when it is pulled in. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Fishing NetSynonym: fishnet (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Fishing Net |
| English words defined with "fishing net": dragger, Drift net ♦ landing net ♦ Purse net ♦ Scoop net, Shrimp net ♦ Tooth net, trammel, trammel net, trawler, Trink ♦ Wolf net. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "fishing net": ballast *, BOATSWAIN, OTTER TRAWLER ♦ FISH FARMER, fixed net, floating trawl ♦ Internet backbone ♦ knotted fishing net ♦ lampara net ♦ midwater trawl ♦ NET REPAIRER ♦ pelagic trawl, purse seiner ♦ seine fishing net, set net ♦ web worker, weight **. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "fishing net": Logogriph ♦ Trink. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Sea turtle killed by entanglement in fishing net.Credit: Fisheries. |  | Children. Boy with fishing net.Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "fishing net": knotted fishing net ♦ seine fishing net. Additional references. | |
| 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 |
fishing net | 554 |
fishing net salmon | 12 |
fishing net walleye | 11 |
dip fishing net | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "fishing net"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | verzomë (trawl). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 罛 (large fishing net). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | vod (seine fishing net, seine net), seine-fiskenet (seine, seine fishing net), not (cotter, dimple for a shot pin, feather, groove, key, milled slot, notch, peg, seine fishing net, seine net, slot, spline), knyttet fiskenet (knotted fishing net). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | zegen (blessing, boon, seine, seine fishing net, seine net), sleepnet (seine, seine fishing net, trawl, trawl net), geknoopt visnet (knotted fishing net). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kalaverkko, kalavelka. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | filet de pêche noué (knotted fishing net), senne (seine fishing net), seine (seine fishing net). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | kescher (brail net, brailer, dip net, hand brailer, landing net, scoop, spoon net), Angelnetz. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | γριπόδιχτο (seine fishing net, seine net), γρίπος (seine fishing net, seine net), πλεγμένο δίχτυ με κόμπους (knotted fishing net), τράτα (dragger, seine, seine fishing net, trawl, trawl net, trawler). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מכמורת (dragnet, net, seine, trammel, trawl). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | scorticaria (seine, seine fishing net), sciabica (dragger, seine fishing net, seine net, trawler), rete da pesca annodata (knotted fishing net). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 漁網 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ぎょもう. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | lhieen (flax, flaxen, quotient, toils), jeebin (net). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ishingfay etnay horizonte (horizon, horizontal, sea-line, soil horizon, zone). (various references) plasã de pescuit (drift net, trammel), plasã (dress-guard, gauze, hair net, mesh, net, netful, netting, network), nãvod (drag-net, mesh, netful, network, seine, trammel, trawl). (various references) t bh (a spoon-net, spoon net), lìon (a net, become full, fill, fill in, fill up, flax, how many?, lint, net, network, replenish, satiate). (various references) red de nudos (knotted fishing net), red de jábega (seine fishing net, seine net), jabega (seine, seine fishing net), jabeca (seine fishing net, seine net), jábega (beach seine, seine, seine fishing net, seine net, shore seine, trawl). (various references) fisknät, fiskegarn (twine). (various references) balık ağı. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-g-h-i-i-n-n-s-t" | |
-1 letter: infesting. | |
-2 letters: feinting, finniest, ginniest, heisting, infights, nighties, sennight, shifting. | |
-3 letters: finings, finites, fishing, fishnet, fisting, hefting, henting, hinnies, hinting, histing, ignites, infight, insight, insigne, intines, nesting, nifties, nighest, nightie, seining, shining, sifting, tensing. | |
-4 letters: eights, ensign, feigns, feints, feting, fetish, fights, finest, fining, finish, finite, hieing, hinges, ignite, infest, ingest, intine, neighs, nights. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-f-g-h-i-i-n-n-s-t" | |
+3 letters: freethinkings. | |
| 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)46 69 73 68 69 6E 67 4E 65 74 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01101001 01110011 01101000 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01001110 01100101 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F i s h i n g   N e t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0069 0073 0068 0069 006E 0067 004E 0065 0074 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)407585747580732487186 |
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