Zori vs Fish - What's the difference?
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Japanese sandals made from rice straw or lacquered wood, worn with a kimono for formal occasions.
* 1983 July, Tony Annesi, Dogu: Tools For the Way'', '' ,
* 1984 , Morgan Yamanaka, Morgan Yamanaka: Tule Lake'', John Tateishi (editor), ''And Justice for All: An Oral History of the Japanese American Detention Camps ,
* 1997 , Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha , 1998, Vintage, p. 25:
* 2008 , Roy Inman, The Judo Handbook ,
A sandal, usually of rubber, secured to the foot by two straps mounted between the big toe and its neighbour, a flip-flop
(countable) A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
Any animal that lives exclusively in water.
* 1774 , Oliver Goldsmith, History of the Earth and Animated Nature , Volume IV:
(uncountable) The flesh of the fish used as food.
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(countable) A period of time spent fishing.
(countable) An instance of seeking something.
(uncountable) A card game in which the object is to obtain cards in pairs or sets of four (depending on the variation), by asking the other players for cards of a particular rank.
(uncountable, derogatory, slang) A woman.
(countable, slang) An easy victim for swindling.
(countable, poker slang) A bad poker player.
(countable, nautical) A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish, used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.
(nautical) A purchase used to fish the anchor.
(countable, nautical) A torpedo.
* 1977 , (w, Richard O'Kane), Clear the Bridge: The War Patrols of the U.S.S. Tang , Ballantine Books (2003), page 344:
(zoology) A polyphyletic grouping of the following extant taxonomic groups:
# Class Myxini, the hagfish (no vertebra)
# Class Petromyzontida, the lampreys (no jaw)
# Within infraphylum Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates (also including Tetrapoda)
## Class Chondrichthyes, cartilaginous fish such as sharks and rays
## Superclass Osteichthyes, bony fish.
To try to catch fish, whether successfully or not.
To try to find something other than fish in (a body of water).
To attempt to find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.
To attempt to obtain information by talking to people.
(cricket) Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.
To attempt to gain.
(nautical) To repair a spar or mast using a brace often called a fish (see NOUN above).
* 1970 , James Henderson, The Frigates, an account of the lesser warships of the wars from 1793 to 1815 , Wordsworth (1998), page 143:
As a noun zori
is japanese sandals made from rice straw or lacquered wood, worn with a kimono for formal occasions.As a proper noun fish is
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Noun
(en-noun)page 70,
- Zori' should be left at the edge of the training area so they can easily be stepped into. In Western dojo, this is sometimes impractical, but ' zori should at least be put on as soon as possible after leaving the training area.
page 117,
- and they had a machine gun aimed at us, and we stood in the snow for three, four, five hours in our underwear and zoris .
- She took a while getting her crooked feet into her zori , but finally turned toward Mr. Tanaka and gave him a look he seemed to understand at once, because he left the room, closing the door behind him.
page 14,
- Traditionally, zori' are worn to and from the place of practice. ' Zori are similar to flip-flops and used to be made from straw.
See also
* * geta (clogs) ----fish
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{{ picdic , image=Clupea harengus (Pieni).jpg , detail1= , detail2= }}Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (compare (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m).Noun
- Salmon is a fish .
- The Sun Mother created all the fishes of the world.
- The Sun Mother created all the fish of the world.
- We have many fish in our aquarium.
- The whale, the limpet, the tortoise and the oyster… as men have been willing to give them all the name of fishes , it is wisest for us to conform.
- The seafood pasta had lots of fish but not enough pasta.
- The fish at the lake didn't prove successful.
- Merely two fishes for information told the whole story.
- The second and third fish went to the middle of her long superstructure and under her forward deck.
Usage notes
The collective plural of fish'' is always ''fish'' in the UK; in the US, ''fishes'' is encountered as well. When referring to two or more kinds of fish, the plural is ''fishes .Synonyms
* (potential swindling victim) mark * (card game) Go Fish * (bad poker player) donkey, donkDerived terms
{{der3, big fish in a small pond , bony fish , cold fish , dragonfish , drink like a fish , fish and chips , fish bowl/fishbowl , fishbrain , fishcake , fisher , fisherman , fish-eating grin , fish finger , fishful , fishgig , fish hook/fishhook , fishkill , fish ladder, fishway , fishless , fishlike , fishling , fishly , fishmeal , fishmonger , fishmoth , fish out of water , fish paste/fishpaste , fish pond/fishpond , fishpound , fishpox , fishroom , fish sauce , fishskin , fishskin disease , fish slice , fish supper , fishtail , fish tank/fishtank , fish tape , fishwife , fishwoman , fishworm , fishy , , goatfish , goldfish , have other fish to fry , like shooting fish in a barrel , jellyfish , lumpfish , overfish , queer fish , sailfish , shellfish , silverfish , starfish , neither fish nor fowl , surgeonfish , swim like a fish , there's plenty more fish in the sea , tuna fish}}Hyponyms
* (aquatic cold-blooded vertabrae with gills) Cephalaspidomorphi, Chondrichthyes, Osteichthyes * (food) seafoodSee also
*Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Verb
(es)- She went to the river to fish for trout.
- They fished the surrounding lakes for the dead body.
- Why are you fishing through my things?
- He was fishing for the keys in his pocket.
- The detective visited the local pubs fishing around for more information.
- The actors loitered at the door, fishing for compliments.
- the crew were set to replacing and splicing the rigging and fishing the spars.