perch - Dictionary Definition : Vocabulary.com

A perch is a temporary resting place. In the middle of climbing a tree, you might find a good perch on a high branch. Bet some birds will be perching there too.

Perch has many different meanings. A bird perch is a little stick it can balance on, and the armrest of the couch can offer you a perch during a party. It's also the name of a kind of fish with spiny fins. And it's also an old measurement of 16.5 feet.

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: perch

1	n v	an elevated place serving as a seat to come to rest, settle
2	n	any of numerous fishes of America and Europe
3	n	a linear measure of 16.5 feet

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: perch

1

n an elevated place serving as a seat

Type of:: place, seat
a space reserved for sitting (as in a theater or on a train or airplane)

n support consisting of a branch or rod that serves as a resting place (especially for a bird)

Types:: roost
a perch on which domestic fowl rest or sleep

Type of:: support
any device that bears the weight of another thing

v to come to rest, settle

Synonyms:: alight, light

Type of:: land, set down
reach or come to rest

v sit, as on a branch

“The birds perched high in the tree”

Synonyms:: rest, roost

Type of:: sit, sit down
be seated

v cause to perch or sit

“She perched her hat on her head”

Type of:: lay, place, pose, position, put, set
put into a certain place or abstract location

2

n any of numerous fishes of America and Europe

Type of:: freshwater fish
flesh of fish from fresh water used as food

n spiny-finned freshwater food and game fishes

Types:: show 5 types...; hide 5 types...; Perca flavescens, yellow perch
North American perch; European perch, Perca fluviatilis
a perch native to Europe; pike perch, pike-perch
any of several pike-like fishes of the perch family; Percina tanasi, snail darter
a small snail-eating perch of the Tennessee River; Stizostedion vitreum, dory, jack salmon, walleye, walleyed pike
pike-like freshwater perches

Type of:: percoid, percoid fish, percoidean
any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes

n any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of various families of the order Perciformes

Type of:: percoid, percoid fish, percoidean
any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes

3

n a linear measure of 16.5 feet

Synonyms:: pole, rod

Type of:: linear measure, linear unit
a unit of measurement of length

n a square rod of land

Synonyms:: pole, rod

Type of:: area unit, square measure
a system of units used to measure areas