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Meaning of "tench" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD TENCH

From Old French tenche, from Late Latin tinca.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF TENCH

tench  [tɛntʃ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TENCH

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Tench 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 TENCH MEAN IN ENGLISH?

tench

Tench

The tench or doctor fish is a freshwater and brackish water fish of the cyprinid family found throughout Eurasia from Western Europe including the British Isles east into Asia as far as the Ob and Yenisei Rivers. It is also found in Lake Baikal. It normally inhabits slow-moving freshwater habitats, particularly lakes and lowland rivers. In Germany, Tench are called "Schleien", of which the singular is "Schley/ei". Trout are predators and are the natural enemies of the Tench.

Definition of tench in the English dictionary

The definition of tench in the dictionary is a European freshwater cyprinid game fish, Tinca tinca, having a thickset dark greenish body with a barbel at each side of the mouth.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TENCH


alebench
ˈeɪlˌbɛntʃ
bench
bɛntʃ
blench
blɛntʃ
clench
klɛntʃ
Dench
dɛntʃ
disbench
dɪsˈbɛntʃ
drench
drɛntʃ
entrench
ɪnˈtrɛntʃ
French
frɛntʃ
intrench
ɪnˈtrɛntʃ
kench
kɛntʃ
quench
kwɛntʃ
retrench
rɪˈtrɛntʃ
stench
stɛntʃ
Swiss-French
ˌswɪsˈfrɛntʃ
trench
trɛntʃ
unclench
ʌnˈklɛntʃ
wench
wɛntʃ
workbench
ˈwɜːkˌbɛntʃ
wrench
rɛntʃ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TENCH

tenant in common
tenant-in-chief
tenant-like
tenantable
tenantless
tenantry
tenants association
tenants´ charter
tenantship
Tencel
tend
tendance
tendencially
tendencies
tendencious
tendenciously
tendenciousness
tendency
tendential
tendentially

WORDS THAT END LIKE TENCH

Allen wrench
Anglo-French
backbench
Canadian French
exercise bench
front bench
hex key wrench
lug wrench
Middle French
monkey wrench
Old French
Old North French
optical bench
park bench
socket wrench
spanner wrench
the bench
the French
torque wrench
weights bench

Synonyms and antonyms of tench in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «tench» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TENCH

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

Translator English - Chinese

丁鱥
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

tenca
570 millions of speakers

English

tench
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

टेंच
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

التنش
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

линь
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

tenca
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পোনামাছ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

tanche
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Sepuluh
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Schleie
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

テンチ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

잉어의 일종
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tench
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cá mè
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஐரோப்பிய மீன் வகை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

दहापट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kilizbalığı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

tinca
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

lin
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

лин
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

lin
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

γληνάρια
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

zeelten
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

sutare
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

suter
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of tench

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TENCH»

The term «tench» is regularly used and occupies the 77.902 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TENCH» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TENCH»

Discover the use of tench in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to tench and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Exploring Public Relations
Exploring Public Relations is the definitive academic text on Public Relations. The first edition, which published in 2006, has sold in its thousands and is now essential reading on courses in PR at undergraduate and postgraduate level.
Ralph Tench, Liz Yeomans, 2009
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Big Tench
This fascinating book begins with the editor’s tench-fishing experiences since the 1960s.
Bob Church, 2005
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Watkin Tench's 1788
Both are included in full in this edition, lovingly edited by Tim Flannery. Tench is the most readable of writers, and his books are fascinating for the vivid portraits they provide of early Australia.
Tim Flannery, Watkin Tench, 2011
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Tench Coxe and the Early Republic
This volume expecially emphasizes Coxe's farsighted views and achievements as a political economist: his support of protective tarrifts, his advocacy of laborsaving machinery, and his prescient belief that cotton growing was the key to ...
Jacob E. Cooke, 2011
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The Intonation Systems of English
Intended not only for students of linguistics and English language, the book also contains information ideal for consideration by language teachers, speech therapists, drama students and other professions that rely heavily upon the spoken ...
Paul Tench, 1996
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Jack Tench: or, The midshipman turned idler
Blowhard (pseud.) (Seepage 10.) CHAPTER I. Dean Swift, when asked by a barber, whose sign was the " Pole and Basin," to give him a few lines upon it by way of motto, drew forth his pencil and wrote the following couplet :— " Rove not from ...
Blowhard (pseud.), 1841
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Inland Fishes of California
Tinea is the Latin word for tench and the Old English name tench is derived from it. Distribution. Tench are native to most of Europe, except northern Scandanavia. Twelve to twenty-four 10 to 15 cm TL fish were brought to California from Italy in ...
Peter B. Moyle, 1976
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The Man Who Saved Kabuki: Faubion Bowers and Theatre ...
Ordinarily, planes should land against the wind, but Tench's pilot was nervous. He missed his first approach and, after switching directions, used a tailwind to land on the central runway from the south. The following planes entered in the same ...
Shirō Okamoto, 2001
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Adsorption and Catalysis on Oxide Surfaces
M. Che and A.J. Tench, Adv. Catalysis 31 (1982) pp. 77-133; 32 (1983) pp. 1-147 . A.J. Tench and P. Holroyd, Chem. Communications (1968) pp. 471-473. A.J. Tench and T. Lawson, Chemical Phys. Letters 7 (1970) pp. 459-460. A.J. Tench, T.
M. Che, G.C. Bond, 1985
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Notes on Fishing, and Selected Fishing Prose and Poetry
or captured by various fishing rigs, then how could I not encounter at least one if not of fourteen pounds, then of only ten or twelve pounds?81 The eight-pound tench that I saw and weighed on a steelyard was sixteen inches long, but, on the  ...
Sergeĭ Timofeevich Aksakov, 1997

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TENCH»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term tench is used in the context of the following news items.
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Watkins Family Hour Featuring Fiona Apple, Benmont Tench Added …
Sara said that the performers would likely be rotating from city to city, but Roots Festival organizer Bryan Hembree said that all of the above artists except Tench ... «Fayetteville Flyer, Apr 15»
2
Hot Tub Fight Breaks Out Over Who Is Higher Paid Escort
30 after Austin Adams, 18, and Michael Gordon, 33, met Douglas Tench, 21, at a gay nightclub, and decided to use the hot tub at a home where Gordon was ... «Huffington Post, Dec 14»
3
South Carolina threesome involving men erupts in fight over who is …
Tench told police he was visiting from Charlotte, N.C., to attend a gay club in Spartanburg, and that he met Adams, who was spending the evening with ... «New York Daily News, Dec 14»
4
Reflections with Benmont Tench
Benmont Tench surprised many of his fans earlier this year when he recorded his first proper solo album on Blue Note Records, You Should Be So Lucky, ... «jambands.com, Nov 14»
5
Woman Arrested After Stealing $600 From Jurors
Surveillance footage captured Tench in various parts of the courthouse. Witnesses also described her as, “acting suspiciously in the hallway near the jury room.”. «CBS Local, Oct 14»
6
Brunswick man accused of killing his mother pleads not guilty
MEDINA, Ohio -- A Brunswick man who is accused of killing his mother pleaded not guilty at his arraignment Thursday. James D. Tench, 28, faces the death ... «Sun News - cleveland.com, Sep 14»
7
Brunswick man accused of killing mother has arraignment continued
James D. Tench, 28, faces the death penalty in a case that charges him with three counts of aggravated murder, two counts of murder, aggravated robbery, ... «Sun News - cleveland.com, Aug 14»
8
Brunswick man accused of killing mother, could face death penalty if …
MEDINA, Ohio – A Brunswick man faces the death penalty in a case that accuses him of killing his mother. A grand jury indicted James D. Tench, 28, on three ... «Sun News - cleveland.com, Aug 14»
9
Ten songs with prolific sideman Benmont Tench
If all Benmont Tench was ever known for was the memorable role he has played as the keyboardist in Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, that would be plenty in ... «Boston Globe, Aug 14»
10
Watkin Tench went from fighting the American War of Independence …
CAPTAIN Watkin Tench missed out on being the first European to discover the Hawkesbury River, but was eager to make his mark in exploring of the lands west ... «The Daily Telegraph, Jun 14»

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