Fishing and Search

Fishing

Fishing noun - The act of someone who fishes as a diversion.

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Search and fishing are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Search" instead a verb "Fishing".

Nearby Words: fish, fishy, fished, fishery

Search verb - To look through (as a place) carefully or thoroughly in an effort to find or discover something.

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Fishing and search are semantically related. Sometimes you can replace term "Fishing" with "Search", this verbs are similar.

In The Androids of Tara, the Doctor decides to leave the search for the Key to Time entirely to Romana, so that he can spend the afternoon fishing...

Source: Heroes Gone Fishing
Then the LAPD cops who have gone to Colorado in search of Philo, and aparently have decided to take a break to go fishing, stumble across Orville and Echo in a bait shop.

Source: Film / Every Which Way But Loose
The scholars of Byrgenwerth invaded a Fishing Hamlet in search of the corpse of the Great One Kos (some say Kosm) washed up on its beach, and committed horrible atrocities on the corpse and the villagers For Science!.

Source: Sins of Our Fathers

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