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#1
Hi,
When you are going to catch some fish with a fishing rod and a line, do you use the word «angle» or «angling» rather than «fish» or «fishing»?
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#2
No. In most contexts where it is not necessary to be specific, people say «fishing».
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#3
My feeling is that any time you try to catch fish, you’re «fishing», but when you are doing it as a sport (*), you’re «angling» — so «angling» is a sub-type of «fishing».
(*) or for pleasure. Thanks, Liliana.
Last edited: Feb 15, 2012
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#4
Any method of catching fish is called ‘fishing’, but it is only ‘angling’ when you are using a rod and line, because there is an angle where the line meets the rod.
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#5
Angling is fishing with a hook, a line, a reel and a fishing rod as opposed to fishing using a net or something else. It is just a general term for such kind of fishing, be it for pleasure or sport, but the word is hardly ever used in everyday speech. It may just be a scientific term, used by rod and lure manufactures, of something of that kind.
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#6
Last edited: Feb 15, 2012
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#7
As wandle’s quote illustrates, «angling» is far from just a scientific term (in BE). It is, I believe, the most popular sport in the UK (before football) with over 4 million «anglers» and not «fishermen» in England and Wales according to the government’s Environment Agency.
It may be that the term is used because it is posher, like «philatelist» sounds more important than «stamp collector».
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#8
Would they say: I’m going angling, or is it just that the sports organization calls it this way?
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#9
People would say ‘I’m going fishing’ rather than ‘I’m going angling’ and they would say ‘He’s an angler’, not ‘a fisher’, or ‘a fisherman’. A fisherman is one who makes his living by fishing.
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#10
Here they would mostly say: I go fishing, I love fishing. They would not refer to themselves as fisherman that often if they do it for pleasure just with a rod and a reel, but you could hardly ever hear: I am an angler.
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#11
I know the definitions. I aimed my query at the actual usage and wandle’s #9 serves me right. Thanks.
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#12
Hi,
When you are going to catch some fish with a fishing rod and a line, do you use the word «angle» or «angling» rather than «fish» or «fishing»?
Out here in the Pacific Northwest of the United States where the fishing is fabulous, we enthusiastic sport fishermen would never say or write «angling»
in the context you specify.
On the other hand, one sees it written in regulations, news reports, etc.
It’s one of those words where you just have to learn from experience when it’s appropriate.
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#13
In the days when I used to live and work on the canals, the people fishing from the banks of the canals were always «fisherman» (or «reject gnomes» to boaters ), but many of them belonged to «angling associations/clubs».
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#14
because there is an angle where the line meets the rod.
Angle is an Old English word for a fish-hook (source: OED).
It can also refer to a hook of land — hence the village of Angle in Pembrokeshire, and possibly also the region of Denmark that plausibly gave its name to the English. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angeln
: the action of one who angles
especially
: the action or sport of fishing with hook and line
Synonyms
Example Sentences
an angling adventure in the mountains
his angling of the picture made everything else on the wall look crooked
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Word History
First Known Use
15th century, in the meaning defined above
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Definitions For Angling
noun
- Fishing with a hook and line (and usually a pole)
- The activity or sport of fishing for pleasure
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YES
Scrabble US
YES
Scrabble UK
YES
English International (SOWPODS)
YES
Scrabble Global
YES
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Scrabble
9
Words with Friends
14
The word Angling is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends
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- An angling adventure in the mountains
- His angling of the picture made everything else on the wall look crooked
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ANGLING has a SCRABBLE points total of 9.
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ANGLING has a WORDS WITH FRIENDS points total of 14.
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ANGLING has a WORDFEUD points total of 11.
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7 Letters
5 Consonants
2 Vowels
2 Syllables
- Types Of Speech
- You can use angling as a noun in a sentence.
- About Angling
- A 2 syllables noun and 7 letters with the letters a, g, i, l, and n, 5 consonants, 2 vowels and 2 syllables with the middle letter l. Angling starts with a vowel and ends in a consonant with the starting letters a, an, ang, angl, angli, and the ending characters are g, ng, ing, ling, gling, ..
- Definition
- Fishing with a hook and line (and usually a pole)
- Compound Words
- A compound word, angling has more than one word within it. There’s 2 words which are ang, and ling.
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- Is angling a scrabble word? A 9 point word in scrabble. Check the word games tab below for probability, odds and more.
- Pig Latin
- Angling in Pig Latin is said as «anglingay or anglingway».
- Unigram
- a | n | g | l | i | n | g
- Bigram
- an | ng | gl | li | in | ng
- Trigram
- ang | ngl | gli | lin | ing
- Quadrigram
- angl | ngli | glin | ling
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- second letter n
- third letter is g
- fourth letter is l
- fifth letter is i
- sixth letter is n
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| Anagram | Definition |
|---|---|
| Angling | fishing with a hook and line (and usually a pole) |
View English words with the unique letters used in angling. Words With The Letters Agiln
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Fishing | the act of someone who fishes as a diversion |
| Sportfishing | the act of someone who fishes as a diversion |
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Fly Fishing | |
| Troll | angling by drawing a baited line through the water |
| Trolling | angling by drawing a baited line through the water |
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| Rallying (8 letters) | 12 +3 | 15 +1 | rallying | ||
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| Lapsing (7 letters) | 10 +1 | 14 | lapsing | ||
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| Slaying (7 letters) | 11 +2 | 13 | slaying | ||
| Inaugural (9 letters) | 10 +1 | 15 +1 | inaugural | ||
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| Tailing (7 letters) | 8 | 11 | tailing | ||
| Rassling (8 letters) | 9 | 12 | rassling | ||
| Grappling (9 letters) | 15 +6 | 21 +7 | grappling | ||
| Angling (7 letters) | 9 | 14 | angling | ||
| Tailoring (9 letters) | 10 +1 | 13 | tailoring | ||
| Plating (7 letters) | 10 +1 | 14 | plating | ||
| Wailing (7 letters) | 11 +2 | 14 | wailing | ||
| Planting (8 letters) | 11 +2 | 16 +2 | planting | ||
| Planning (8 letters) | 11 +2 | 17 +3 | agilnnnp | ||
| Pillaging (9 letters) | 13 +4 | 19 +5 | aggiillnp | ||
| Stalling (8 letters) | 9 | 13 | stalling | ||
| Loaning (7 letters) | 8 | 12 | loaning | ||
| Slating (7 letters) | 8 | 11 | salting | ||
| Singalong (9 letters) | 11 +2 | 16 +2 | aggilnnos |
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- Two syllables, starting with a
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- Seven letters, ending in g
- Five consonants, ending in g
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