Terminology record for fin
RECORD
| Record No.: | 293/en/539 |
| Author: | ELAD D. F. |
| Creation date: | |
| Last updated: | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |
| 🇫🇷 FRENCH | ||||
| DOMAINE |
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| VEDETTE | * Couper l’aileron statut : recommandé
* Prélèver l'aileron (verbe) statut : admis | |||
| PARTIE DU DISCOURS | verbe | |||
| ÉTYMOLOGIE | Couper l’aileron | |||
| DÉFINITION |
La pratique consistant à enlever les ailerons (nageoire triangulaire) et à jeter les carcasses, généralement en rapport avec les requins. | |||
| SOURCE DE DÉFINITION | Fishterm | |||
| 🇬🇧 ENGLISH | ||||
| SUBJECT FIELD |
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| TERM | * Fin status: recommended
* fins (verb) status: accepted * finned (verb) status: accepted * finning (verb) status: accepted | |||
| PART OF SPEECH | verb | |||
| ETYMOLOGY | From the noun fin; from Old English finn, ‘fin’; from Germanic finnaz, ‘fin’. | |||
| ETYMOLOGY SOURCE |
Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (8th ed.) (2010). Antidote bilingual 10 v2.1 (2019). | |||
| DEFINITION |
1) to cut off the fins (from a fish). The practice of removing fins and discarding the
carcass, usually pertaining to sharks.
2) of a marine animal) to show fins above the water — Saw was frightened as the sharks finned around the boat | |||
| DEFINITION SOURCE |
SCRS (2001) Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (8th ed.) (2010). Antidote bilingual 10 v2.1 (2019). | |||
