Perch meaning

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The definition of a perch is a place for a person or animal to sit on or a freshwater fish.

An example of perch is what a bird in a cage rests on.

An example of perch is a grouper fish.

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Perch is defined as to sit or rest in an elevated position.

An example of perch is to sit up on the sill of a bay window.

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A rod or branch serving as a roost for a bird.
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A pole, stick, or rod.
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A unit of cubic measure used in stonework, usually 16.5 feet by 1.0 foot by 1.5 feet, or 24.75 cubic feet (0.70 cubic meter).
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A frame on which cloth is laid for examination of quality.
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A linear measure equal to 5.50 yards or 16.5 feet (5.03 meters); a rod.
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An elevated place for resting or sitting.
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A position that is secure, advantageous, or prominent.
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One square rod of land.
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To alight or rest on a perch; roost.

A raven perched high in the pine.

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To stand, sit, or rest on an elevated place or position.
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To place on or as if on a perch.

The child perched the glass on the edge of the counter.

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To lay (cloth) on a perch in order to examine it.
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Any of several spiny-finned freshwater fishes of the genus Perca, especially either of two edible species, the yellow perch of North America, and P. fluviatilis of Europe.
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Any of various similar fishes of the family Percidae, such as the walleye, or of other families, such as the white perch or the ocean perch.
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Any of a family (Percidae) of small, spiny-finned, freshwater, percoid food fishes of Europe and America; esp., a yellowish species (Perca flavescens) of North America.
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Any of various other spiny-finned bony fishes, as the white perch and the surfperches.
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A horizontal rod, pole, etc. provided as a roost for birds.
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Anything, as a branch or wire, upon which a bird rests.
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Any resting place, position, or vantage point, esp. a high or insecure one.
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A pole connecting the front and rear axletrees of a wagon, carriage, etc.
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A unit of linear measure equal to 512 yards (5.029 meters); rod.
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A unit of land measure equal to 3014 square yards (25.3 square meters)
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A cubic measure for stone, usually equal to 2434 cubic feet (.70 cubic meters)
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To alight or rest on or as on a perch.
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To place or set on or as on a perch.
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A surname​.
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Origin of perch

Middle English perche from Old French from Latin perca from Greek perkē

Sentence Examples

  • The scaly fish include members of the carp and perch kind.

  • The churning sea below was littered with jagged rocks that looked small from her perch a hundred feet above them.

  • I can see from my perch a window downstairs in back remains open to catch the lovely spring breeze.

  • They sat in silence throughout the afternoon, until the sun sank far enough out of the sky to perch on the ocean.

  • Buffalo-fish, paddle-fish, cat-fish, drum, crappie, black bass, rock bass, German carp, sturgeon, pike, perch, eels, suckers and shrimp inhabit the waters of the Mississippi and its tributaries, and oysters, shrimp, trout, Spanish mackerel, channel bass, black bass, sheepshead, mullet, croakers, pompano, pin-fish, blue-fish, flounders, crabs and terrapin are obtained from the Mississippi Sound and the rivers flowing into it.

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