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PRONUNCIATION OF PORGIES

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PORGIES

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Porgies is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PORGIES MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Sparidae

The Sparidae are a family of fish in the order Perciformes, commonly called sea breams and porgies. The sheepshead, scup, and red seabream are species in this family. They are found in shallow temperate and tropical waters and are bottom-dwelling carnivores. Most species possess grinding, molar-like teeth. Some of the species, such as Polysteganus undulosus, have been subject to overfishing, or exploitation beyond sustainable recovery.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PORGIES

porcino
porcupine
porcupine fish
porcupine grass
porcupine provisions
porcupinish
porcupiny
pore
porer
porge
porgy
Pori
porifer
poriferal
poriferan
poriferous
porina
poriness
Porirua
porism

WORDS THAT END LIKE PORGIES

allergies
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anthologies
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argy-bargies
buggies
clergies
energies
ideologies
lethargies
liturgies
lurgies
methodologies
orgies
pathologies
strategies
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Synonyms and antonyms of porgies in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «porgies» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PORGIES

Find out the translation of porgies to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of porgies from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «porgies» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

porgies
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

porgies
570 millions of speakers

English

porgies
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

porgies
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

porgies
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Porgies
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

porgies
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

porgies
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

pagres
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Porgies
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Porgies
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

porgies
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

porgies
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Porgies
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

Porgies
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

porgies
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Porgies
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

porgies
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

pagelli
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

porgies
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Porgies
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Porgies
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

Porgies
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

porgies
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

porgies
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

porgies
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of porgies

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PORGIES»

The term «porgies» is normally little used and occupies the 126.136 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PORGIES» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about porgies

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PORGIES»

Discover the use of porgies in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to porgies and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Porgies Are Best: A Fishmonger's Daughter
Porgies Are Best: A Fishmonger's Daughter is a book of vignettes of a young African American, Jewish girl from the projects of the South Bronx, who experiences love, humor, misfortune, compassion, and accomplishment.
B. J. Ray, 2010
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Ken Schultz's Field Guide to Saltwater Fish
Scup Stenotomus chrysops The Sparidae family of porgies comprise roughly 112 species, and as a group they have worldwide distribution in the tropical and temperate waters of the Atlantic, the Pacific, and the Indian Oceans, although a few ...
Ken Schultz, 2011
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Regional Greek Cooking
hile the gods blessed Santorini with so much, they had to keep the island humble , and so they gave her rocky shores and deep offshore trenches unfavorable to fishing. To fish for porgies to bake for this recipe you sail east from Santorini to the ...
Dean Karayanis, Catherine Karayanis, 2008
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A Global Assessment of Fisheries Bycatch and Discards
S. 77 >20 smelts, rockfishes High et al (1969) Vertical Norway 76-100 6-10 codH, haddocks Isaksen (1984) V Design Vertical US Gulf of Mexico 3*46 6-12 croakers/porgies Watson (1982) TEDS Collapsible Steel Grid US Gulf of Mexico 61 ...
Dayton L. Alverson, 1994
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Report
Black-fish. 2 bbls. Weak fish, 1 bbl. Flounders, mixed, few Porgies. 10 bbls. Porgies, 2 bbls. Flounders, Weak-fish, etc. 1 bbl. Porgies, 1 bbl. Weak-fish, 1 bbl. Butter-fish, etc. 1 bbl. Porgies, 1 bbl. Weak-fish, 2 bbls. Flounders and Butter-fish, etc.
Connecticut. Fish Commissioners, 1871
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Finfish Aquaculture Diversification
The seabreams and porgies (family Sparidae, Fig. 16.1) are primarily marine and brackish water fishes (a few species occur in fresh water) found around the world in tropical, warm temperate and temperate seas. In general, the seabreams ...
M. Jobling, C. Carter, 2010
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Hunt, Gather, Cook: Finding the Forgotten Feast
Porgies, also known as scup, are the Atlantic cousin of the famous sea bream of the Mediterranean. Silvery gold, often with colored stripes, porgies have high foreheads, bodies flattened vertically like bluegills, and little mouths, also like ...
Hank Shaw, 2011
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Life in the Chesapeake Bay
Porgies. Two representatives of this family of deep-bodied, slab-sided fish are fairly common to the lower Bay. Porgies are a large family of primarily tropical species with a few northern strays represented in the Chesapeake by scup, ...
Alice Jane Lippson, Robert L. Lippson, 2006
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Is it Kosher: Encyclopedia of Kosher Foods : Facts & Fallacies
Including: Pike (esox lucius); Pickerels (Esox species); Muskellunge (esox masquinongy) Pike-perch See: Perches Pilchard See: Herrings Pinfish See: Porgies Plaice See: Flounders Pollock See: Codfishes Pomfret See: Atlantic pomfret ...
Eliezer Eidlitz, 2004
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Complete Guide to Saltwater Fishing: How to Catch Striped ...
Like the fluke and sea bass, porgies winter offshore and move in during the spring when there's a big fishery in Nantucket Sound. Summer and early fall fishing is good off eastern Long Island plus Long Island and Block Island sounds  ...
Al Ristori, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PORGIES»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term porgies is used in the context of the following news items.
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Oysterponds camp focuses on maritime, agricultural history
Last Thursday, students visited Alice's Fish Market in Greenport to learn about porgies. They also watched a documentary about ancient ... «Suffolk Times, Jul 15»
2
When Neptune laughs
This makes it well suited for kayak fishing for anything from bass to porgies. Early evening Saturday, I ventured out and looked to the east. «RiverheadLOCAL, Jul 15»
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Zone Fishing Reports for July 24
There are porgies biting at the Sandy Hook Reef, good ling fishing offshore, stripers are still at the Rocks and the crabs are all over the ... «Asbury Park Press, Jul 15»
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For Island fishermen, porgies a Sound pick
Porgies are the current pick of anglers in Long Island Sound. They're nice-sized and plentiful. Still, anglers spotting bunker can search ... «New York Daily News, Jul 15»
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Feature: Off the eaten path
Porgies are a kind of sea perch, wicked popular in the African-American community on the East Coast (“Fry it hard!”). These little scrappers are ... «Pacific Sun, Jul 15»
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Warm water fish are biting in the Lehigh Valley
New York, New Jersey and Delaware shore reports included good catches of porgies, sea bass, fluke, tuna, and shark. Don't forget the Great ... «Allentown Morning Call, Jul 15»
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Pipefish, Pufferfish, Porgies Plus…
We have had a few changes at the Seaside Center during a busy last two weeks. First, while doing a seine with the Greenwich Explorers, we ... «CT News, Jul 15»
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Fishing Best Bets: Mangrove snapper is your best bet
To add lane, mangrove, vermilion and yellowtail snappers, porgies, grunts and many other delectable species to the box, downsize the tackle ... «The News-Press, Jul 15»
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Fishing Plus: Fishing is hot as the temperatures
On the bottom, fluke are the biggest stars, but fluke fans are also picking up plenty of fun for porgies and black sea bass. (Check out the DEEP ... «Thehour.com, Jul 15»
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Jersey Shore Fishing: July 20 is entry deadline for JCAA …
The night trip has been slow, with just a few short stripers and some porgies, but the first croaker was also boated. The Golden Eagle from ... «NJ.com, Jul 15»

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