Tench

Word TENCH
Character 5
Hyphenation tench
Pronunciations /tɛnt͡ʃ/

Definitions and meanings of "Tench"

What do we mean by tench?

An edible Eurasian freshwater fish (Tinca tinca) having small scales and two barbels near the mouth. noun

A penitentiary. noun

A cyprinoid fish of Europe, Tinca vulgaris. noun

A European fresh-water fish (Tinca tinca, or Tinca vulgaris) allied to the carp. It is noted for its tenacity of life. noun

A species of freshwater game fish, Tinca tinca. noun

Excellent performance in a tense situation. adjective

Freshwater dace-like game fish of Europe and western Asia noted for ability to survive outside water noun

A species of freshwater game fish, Tinca tinca.

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The word "tench" in example sentences

"The tench is a fish that knows how to keep itself safe by a philosophical taste for an obscure existence in deep holes and slush." ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)

Similar irresponsibility had already occurred with the introduction of tilapia and tench fish, but the results were incalculably more dramatic with this dark and elusive creature which today reigns in our waters. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It would've been so much better if Castle wore the classic tench coat. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The agency boosted fish populations with more than half a million farmed fish, including roach, barbell, tench, dace and chub. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Jovius on the other side, disallowing tench, approves of it; so doth Dubravius in his Books of Fishponds. ❋ Unknown (2007)

In those fishes in which the sac is somewhat more fleshy, as in the carp, barbel, tench, and others, it bears a wonderful and strong resemblance to the lungs. ❋ Unknown (2005)

A huge cutter and an undersea tench machine is used to open a 2 m deep and 10 m wide trench ❋ Sun Bin (2005)

Ere from its bed the dusky tench leapt at the dragon-fly. ❋ Unknown (2003)

“How could your tench have wriggled across dry land if it was a fish?” ❋ Unknown (2003)

I walked down one of the long alleys, with tall, close hedges of beech, as impenetrable as cloister walls to sight, and watched the tench basking and flickering in the clear pond, and the dazzling swans sailing majestically along. ❋ Unknown (2003)

For fresh water fish, besides the common sorts (as carpe, pikes, pearch, tench, roach, &c.) they haue diuers kinds very good and delicate: as the Bellouga or Bellougina of 4. or 5. elnes long, the ❋ Unknown (2003)

Of all fishes but the tench take the wing of a partridge or the thigh of a nun. ❋ Unknown (2002)

I reminded myself at the door of the briefing room that the secret tench code was the best damn code there wasn't. ❋ Marks, Leo (1998)

See also basic mixtures; presentation; preservation; sugar tench, 13 ❋ Wheaton Barbara Ketcham (1983)

With my ready ear for languages, I picked up a little Malagassy, but for the most part transmitted my orders in I tench, which the better-educated officers understood. ❋ Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- (1977)

The captain was sitting on the raised dais, which at least meant we didn't have to go through the tench-hut bulishit. ❋ Haldeman, Joe (1975)

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