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Definition: Skipjack |
SkipjackNoun1. Oceanic schooling tuna of considerable value in Pacific but less in Atlantic; reaches 75 pounds; very similar to if not the same as oceanic bonito. 2. Medium-sized tuna-like food fish of warm Atlantic and Pacific waters; less valued than tuna. 3. Able to right itself when on its back by flipping into the air with a clicking sound. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "skipjack" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1872. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | SkipJack |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| SKI | English | Skipjack tuna(= fish) | Food & Agriculture, Biology & Biotechnology |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: SkipjackSynonyms: click beetle (n), skipjack tuna (n), snapping beetle (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Commonalty | Upstart, parvenu, skipjack; nobody, nobody one knows; hesterni quirites, pessoribus orti; bourgeois gentilhomme, novus homo, snob, gent, mushroom, no one knows who, adventurer; man of straw. |
Prosperity | Upstart, parvenu, skipjack, mushroom. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Skipjack |
| English words defined with "skipjack": bonito ♦ Jurel ♦ Katsuwonus pelamis ♦ oceanic bonito. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Pulling an oyster-dredge full of oysters aboard the skipjack "DEE" of St. Mary's. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Skipjack tuna caught with a one-pole rig with a barbless hook. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Sign describing the Maryland Skipjack ROSIE PARKS. Credit: Fisheries. |  | The ROSIE PARKS is a Maryland Skipjack. These boats were used for oyster dredging while under sail. Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | A Chesapeake Bay skipjack underway. These vessels are sail powered oyster dredgers. Credit: Fisheries. |  | School of skipjack - Katsuwonus pelamis. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Plate 211. The Inland Alewife or Skipjack. Clupea chrysochloris (Raf.), J. & G. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |  | Panoramic photograph of the ship moored at Bouy 19, San Diego harbor, California, in 1940, with eleven submarines alongside. Submarines are (from left to right): Salmon (SS-182); Seal (SS-183); Stingray (SS-186); Perch (SS-176); Pollack (SS-180); Cachalot (SS-170); Cuttlefish (SS-171); Skipjack (SS-184); Sturgeon (SS-187); Snapper (SS-185) and Sargo (SS-188). SS-182 through SS-187 were members of Submarine Division 15, commanded by R.W. Christie. USS Richmond (CL-9), flagship of the Submarine Force, is in the right distance. Credit: NAVY. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Maldives | Production was about 119,000 metric tons in 2000, most of which was skipjack tuna. (references) |
Maldives | Although tuna (mostly skipjack, and some yellow-fin) has been the predominant catch and remains the country's top export, reef fishing has been growing, due in part to government efforts to diversify fisheries and encourage greater private sector participation, as well as very strong East Asian demand for reef fish such as grouper and snapper. (references) | |
Japan | Exports of U.S. species which notably increased to Japan from 1999 to 2000 are chilled skipjack ($190,000, up 100 times), frozen sardine ($8.0 million, up 2.7 times), frozen cod roe ($302 million, up 73 percent), other frozen fish roe ($12.5 million, up 69 percent), frozen herring ($955,000, up 78 percent), salted herring roe ($7.3 million, up 45 percent), frozen king crab ($59.6 million, up 38 percent), live spiny lobster ($413,000, up 4.72 times), live king crab ($241,000, up 2.52 times), live abalone ($2.5 million, up 2.38 times), other prepared fish ($993,000, up 5.19 times), ikura salmon eggs ($116 million, up 80 percent), caviar and caviar substitute ($1.6 million, up 217 times), and worked cultured pearls ($700,000, up 4.64 times). (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Skipjack" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 85.71% of the time. "Skipjack" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 85.71% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 14.29% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "skipjack": skipjack tuna. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
skipjack | 99 |
boat skipjack | 55 |
tuna skipjack | 11 |
herring skipjack | 6 |
fish skipjack | 4 |
model skipjack | 4 |
skipjack uss | 4 |
boat sail skipjack | 3 |
frozen skipjack | 3 |
international skipjack | 3 |
skipjack submarine | 2 |
cove skipjack | 2 |
norman skipjack stanley | 2 |
bay chesapeake skipjack | 2 |
lewis martha skipjack | 2 |
24 skipjack | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "skipjack"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | lodër kërcues. (various references) | |
Danish | bugstribet bonit (bonito, oceanic bonito, skipjack tuna, stripe-bellied bonito, striped tuna). (various references) | |
Dutch | skipjack (bonito, oceanic bonito, skipjack tuna, stripe-bellied bonito, striped tuna), listao (bonito, oceanic bonito, stripe bellied bonito, striped tuna), gestreepte tonijn (bonito, oceanic bonito, stripe bellied bonito, striped tuna), gestreepte bonito (bonito, oceanic bonito, skipjack tuna, stripe-bellied bonito, striped bonito, striped tuna), bonito (bonito, oceanic bonito, stripe bellied bonito, striped tuna). (various references) | |
Farsi | نوعی ماهی زیستگردرسطح اب , جوان ژیگولووخودنما, بازیچه ای که ازجناغ مرغ درست میکنند. (various references) | |
Finnish | boniitti (bonito, oceanic bonito, skipjack tuna, stripe-bellied bonito, striped tuna). (various references) | |
French | Thynnus pelamys, thon rouge du Nord, poussa, listao (skipjack tuna), LA Euthynnus pelamys, Katsuwonus pelamis, bonites, bonite vraie (skipjack tuna), bonite ventre rayé (skipjack tuna), bariole, \SKJ (skipjack tuna). (various references) | |
German | Stehaufmännchen (tumbler), roter Thun (Atlantic bluefin tuna, Atlantic tuna, bluefin tuna, bonito, common tunny, Northern bluefin tuna, oceanic bonito, stripe bellied bonito, striped tuna, tuna, tunny), Gestreifter Thunfisch (bonito, oceanic bonito, skipjack tuna, stripe bellied bonito, stripe-bellied bonito, striped tuna), Echter Bonito (bonito, oceanic bonito, skipjack tuna, stripe bellied bonito, stripe-bellied bonito, striped tuna), Bonito (bonito, oceanic bonito, skipjack tuna, stripe-bellied bonito, striped tuna), Bauchstreifiger Bonito (bonito, oceanic bonito, skipjack tuna, stripe-bellied bonito, striped tuna). (various references) | |
Greek | παλαμίδα (bonito, short finned tunny), λακέρδα (bonito, oceanic bonito, skipjack tuna, stripe-bellied bonito, striped tuna). (various references) | |
Hungarian | pattanóbogár (click beetle, elater, snapping beetle, snapping jack). (various references) | |
Italian | tonno rosso (Atlantic bluefin tuna, Atlantic tuna, bluefin tuna, bonito, common tunny, Northern bluefin tuna, oceanic bonito, stripe bellied bonito, striped tuna, tuna, tunny), tonno palamita, tonno (tuna, tuna-fish, tunny), tonnetto striato (bonito, oceanic bonito, skipjack tuna, stripe bellied bonito, stripe-bellied bonito, striped tuna), listao (bonito, oceanic bonito, stripe bellied bonito, striped tuna). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ipjackskay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | serra (mountain, mountain range, ridge, saw, sierra), variedade de peixes, peixe-serra (sawfish), gaiado (bonito, oceanic bonito, skipjack tuna, stripe bellied bonito, stripe-bellied bonito, striped tuna), bonito listrado, bonito de barriga listada (bonito, oceanic bonito, skipjack tuna, stripe-bellied bonito, striped tuna), atum rabilho (Atlantic bluefin tuna, Atlantic tuna, bluefin tuna, bonito, common tunny, Northern bluefin tuna, oceanic bonito, stripe bellied bonito, striped tuna, tuna, tunny). (various references) | |
Russian | прыгающая игрушка. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | skorojević (nouveau riche, parvenu, upstart), riba skakavica (springer), buba skakačica. (various references) | |
Spanish | serrucho (hand saw, handsaw, saw), palomida (bonito, oceanic bonito, skipjack tuna, stripe-bellied bonito, striped tuna), listado (barred, list, listing, striped), conejo (Coney, cony, cotton-tail, rabbit), bonito de altura (bonito, oceanic bonito, skipjack tuna, stripe-bellied bonito, striped tuna), atún rojo (Atlantic bluefin tuna, Atlantic tuna, bluefin, bluefin tuna, bonito, common tunny, Northern bluefin tuna, oceanic bonito, stripe bellied bonito, striped tuna, tuna, tunny). (various references) | |
Swedish | bonit (bonito, oceanic bonito, skipjack tuna, stripe-bellied bonito, striped tuna). (various references) | |
Turkish | kökkurdu, kızıl orkinos, bir tür tonbalığı, bir tür oyuncak. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | bọ nhảy. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Euthynnus pelamis, Euthynnus pelamis Linnaeus, Katsuwonus pelamis, Katsuwonus pelamis (Linnaeus), Thynnus pelamys. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "skipjack": skipjacks. (additional references) | |
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"Skipjack" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Kinjacka. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "skipjack" (pronounced ski"pja'k) |
| 3 | -j a' k | blackjack, Crackerjack, hijack, Lumberjack. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i-j-k-k-p-s" | |
-3 letters: aspic, jacks, kakis, kicks, packs, paiks, picas, picks, pikas, spica, spick. | |
-4 letters: asci, caps, cask, jack, kaki, kick, kips, pack, pacs, paik, pias, pica, pick, pics, pika, sack, saki, sick, skip, spic, spik. | |
-5 letters: ais, ask, asp, cap, cis, ick, kas, kip, pac, pas, pia, pic, pis, psi, sac, sap, sic, sip, ska. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-i-j-k-k-p-s" | |
+1 letter: skipjacks. | |
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