perch
see also: Perch
Pronunciation Etymology 1
Perch
Proper noun
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see also: Perch
Pronunciation Etymology 1
From Middle English perche, from Old French perche, from Latin perca, from Ancient Greek πέρκη, cognate with περκνός ("dark-spotted").
Nounperch
- Any of the three species of spiny-finned freshwater fish in the genus Perca.
- Any of the about 200 related species of fish in the taxonomic family Percidae, especially:
- (South Africa) Acanthopagrus berda
- (Ghana) Distichodus engycephalus, Distichodus rostratus
- (Australia) Johnius belangerii, Macquaria ambigua, Macquaria colonorum, Macquaria novemaculeata, Nemadactylus macropterus
- (USA) Kyphosus azureus
- (UK) Lateolabrax japonicus, Tautogolabrus adspersus
- Several similar species in the order Perciformes, such as the grouper.
- French: perche
- German: Barsch
- Italian: pesce persico, perca
- Portuguese: perca
- Russian: о́кунь
- Spanish: perca
From Middle English perche, from Old French perche, from Latin pertica.
Nounperch
- A rod, staff, tree branch, ledge, etc., used as a roost by a bird.
- A pole connecting the fore gear and hind gear of a spring carriage; a reach.
- (figuratively) A position that is secure and advantageous, especially one which is prominent or elevated.
- (figuratively) A position that is overly elevated or haughty.
- 1612–1613 (date written), John Webster, The Tragedy of the Dutchesse of Malfy. […], London: […] Nicholas Okes, for Iohn Waterson, […], published 1623, →OCLC ↗, Act II, scene iv ↗:
- You may thanke me, (Lady) / I haue taken you off your mellancholly pearch, / Boare you vpon my fiſt, and ſhew'd you game, / And let you flie at it: I pray the kiſſe me, […]
- (dated) A linear measure of 5 1⁄2 yards, equal to a rod, a pole or 1⁄4 chain; the related square measure.
- A cubic measure of stonework equal to 16.6 × 1.5 × 1 feet.
- (textiles) A frame used to examine cloth.
- A bar used to support a candle, especially in a church.
- (theatre) A platform for lights to be directed at the stage.
- French: perchoir
- German: Hühnerstange
- Italian: pertica, trespolo
- Portuguese: poleiro
- Russian: насе́ст
- Spanish: alcándara, percha
perch (perches, present participle perching; simple past and past participle perched)
- (intransitive) To rest on a perch (especially, of a bird); to roost.
- The macaw perched on Jim's shoulder.
- (intransitive) To sit upon the edge of something.
- 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “Which Describes an Evening in Strange Company ↗”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
- The platform was already crowded, but the newcomers threaded their way to the front amid a decorous murmur of welcome. Mr. Peeble shoved and exhorted and two end seats emerged upon which Enid and Malone perched themselves.
- (intransitive) To stay in an elevated position.
- (transitive) To place something on (or as if on) a perch.
- (transitive, intransitive, textiles) To inspect cloth using a perch.
- French: se percher
- German: niederlassen, setzen, niedersetzen
- Italian: appollaiarsi
- Portuguese: empoleirar-se
- Spanish: empercharse
- Russian: возвышаться
- French: percher, jucher (old)
- Portuguese: empoleirar
- Spanish: emperchar
Perch
Proper noun
- Surname.
- a type of freshwater fish
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