name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Standard Lemma guide
pollock
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American: /ˈpɑlək/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈpɒlək/
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CMU ARPABET: P AA1 L AH0 K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Idaho County, Idaho.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 3
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Grant Parish, Louisiana.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 4
A number of places in the United States:
A village in Sullivan County, Missouri.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 5
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Campbell County, South Dakota.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 6
Either of two lean, white marine food fishes, of the genus Pollachius, in the cod family.
Pollachius pollachius.
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Atlantic pollock, European pollock, lythe
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Broader terms: gadid, gadiform, fish, vertebrate, animal, organism, creature
noun
Meaning 7
Either of two lean, white marine food fishes, of the genus Pollachius, in the cod family.
Pollachius virens.
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Boston blues, coalfish, coley, silver bills, saithe
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Broader terms: gadid, gadiform, fish, vertebrate, animal, organism, creature
noun
Meaning 8
A painting by Jackson Pollock.
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noun
Meaning 9
Alternative spelling of Polack.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
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verb
Meaning 10
To fish for pollock.
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verb
Meaning 11
To splatter, as with paint.
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noun
Meaning 12
important food and game fish of northern seas (especially the northern Atlantic); related to cod
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: pollack, Pollachius pollachius
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: gadoid, gadoid fish
noun
Meaning 13
lean white flesh of North Atlantic fish; similar to codfish
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: pollack
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Broader terms: saltwater fish
noun
Meaning 14
United States artist famous for painting with a drip technique; a leader of abstract expressionism in America (1912-1956)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Jackson Pollock
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: painter
History
Etymology
Related to Polk.
From Middle English [Term?], perhaps from Scots podlok.
See Polack.
From Jackson Pollock, an American artist who painted in splatters.
Across languages
Translations
27 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Asturian: abadexu — food fish related to cod
- Bulgarian: сайда (sajda) — food fish related to cod
- Bulgarian: морска треска (morska treska) — food fish related to cod
- Faroese: seiður — food fish related to cod
- Faroese: lýrur — food fish related to cod
- Finnish: seiti (P. virens) — food fish related to cod
- Finnish: lyyraturska (P. pollachius) — food fish related to cod
- French: lieu — food fish related to cod
- Galician: badexo (P. pollachius) — food fish related to cod
- Galician: fogoneiro (P. virens) — food fish related to cod
- German: Seelachs (P. virens) — food fish related to cod
- German: Köhler (P. virens) — food fish related to cod
- German: Pollack (P. pollachius) — food fish related to cod
- German: Kohlfisch — food fish related to cod
- Hungarian: tőkehal — food fish related to cod
- Hungarian: sárga tőkehal — food fish related to cod
- Norwegian: sei (P. virens) — food fish related to cod
- Norwegian: lyr (P. pollachius) — food fish related to cod
- Portuguese: paloco — food fish related to cod
- Russian: са́йда (sájda) — food fish related to cod
- Spanish: carbonero (P. virens) — food fish related to cod
- Spanish: abadejo (P. pollachius) — food fish related to cod
- Swedish: gråsej (P. virens) — food fish related to cod
- Swedish: lyrtorsk — food fish related to cod
- Swedish: bleka (P. pollachius) — food fish related to cod
- Turkish: kömür balığı — food fish related to cod
- Welsh: morlas — food fish related to cod
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