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Acre vs. Perch — What's the Difference?

Acre vs. Perch — What's the Difference?

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Acre

The acre is a unit of land area used in the imperial and US customary systems. It is traditionally defined as the area of one chain by one furlong (66 by 660 feet), which is exactly equal to 10 square chains, 1⁄640 of a square mile, or 43,560 square feet, and approximately 4,047 m2, or about 40% of a hectare.

Perch

Perch is a common name for fish of the genus Perca, freshwater gamefish belonging to the family Percidae. The perch, of which three species occur in different geographical areas, lend their name to a large order of vertebrates: the Perciformes, from the Greek: πέρκη (perke), simply meaning perch, and the Latin forma meaning shape.

Acre

A unit of area in the US Customary System, used in land and sea floor measurement and equal to 160 square rods, 4,840 square yards, or 43,560 square feet. See Table at measurement.

Perch

A rod or branch serving as a roost for a bird.

Acre

Acres Property in the form of land; estate.
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Perch

An elevated place for resting or sitting.

Acre

(Archaic) A field or plot of arable land.

Perch

A position that is secure, advantageous, or prominent.

Acre

Often acres A wide expanse, as of land or other matter
"acres of textureless carpeting" (Anne Tyler).

Perch

A pole, stick, or rod.

Acre

An English unit of land area (symbol: a. or ac.) originally denoting a day's ploughing for a yoke of oxen, now standardized as 4,840 square yards or 4,046.86 square meters.

Perch

A linear measure equal to 5.50 yards or 16.5 feet (5.03 meters); a rod.

Acre

An area of 10,240 square yards or 4 quarters.

Perch

One square rod of land.

Acre

Any of various similar units of area in other systems.

Perch

A unit of cubic measure used in stonework, usually 16.5 feet by 1.0 foot by 1.5 feet, or 24.75 cubic feet (0.70 cubic meter).

Acre

A wide expanse.
I like my new house - there’s acres of space!

Perch

A frame on which cloth is laid for examination of quality.

Acre

A large quantity.

Perch

Any of several spiny-finned freshwater fishes of the genus Perca, especially either of two edible species, the yellow perch of North America, and P. fluviatilis of Europe.

Acre

(obsolete) A field.

Perch

Any of various similar fishes of the family Percidae, such as the walleye, or of other families, such as the white perch or the ocean perch.

Acre

(obsolete) The acre's breadth by the length, English units of length equal to the statute dimensions of the acre: 22 yds (≈20 m) by 220 yds (≈200 m).

Perch

To alight or rest on a perch; roost
A raven perched high in the pine.

Acre

(obsolete) A duel fought between individual Scots and Englishmen in the borderlands.

Perch

To stand, sit, or rest on an elevated place or position.

Acre

Any field of arable or pasture land.

Perch

To place on or as if on a perch
The child perched the glass on the edge of the counter.

Acre

A piece of land, containing 160 square rods, or 4,840 square yards, or 43,560 square feet. This is the English statute acre. That of the United States is the same. The Scotch acre was about 1.26 of the English, and the Irish 1.62 of the English.
I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which callsThe burial ground, God's acre.

Perch

To lay (cloth) on a perch in order to examine it.

Acre

A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries

Perch

Any of the three species of spiny-finned freshwater fish in the genus Perca.

Acre

A territory of western Brazil bordering on Bolivia and Peru

Perch

Any of the about 200 related species of fish in the taxonomic family Percidae, especially:

Acre

A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean

Perch

(South Africa) Acanthopagrus berda

Perch

(Ghana) Distichodus engycephalus, Distichodus rostratus

Perch

(Australia) Johnius belangerii, Macquaria ambigua, Macquaria colonorum, Macquaria novemaculeata, Nemadactylus macropterus

Perch

(USA) Kyphosus azureus

Perch

(UK) Lateolabrax japonicus, Tautogolabrus adspersus

Perch

Several similar species in the order Perciformes, such as the grouper.

Perch

A rod, staff, tree branch, ledge, etc., used as a roost by a bird.

Perch

A pole connecting the fore gear and hind gear of a spring carriage; a reach.

Perch

(figuratively) A position that is secure and advantageous, especially one which is prominent or elevated.

Perch

(figuratively) A position that is overly elevated or haughty.

Perch

(dated) A linear measure of 2 yards, equal to a rod, a pole or 4 chain; the related square measure.

Perch

A cubic measure of stonework equal to 16.6 × 1.5 × 1 feet.

Perch

(textiles) A frame used to examine cloth.

Perch

A bar used to support a candle, especially in a church.

Perch

(theatre) A platform for lights to be directed at the stage.

Perch

(intransitive) To rest on a perch (especially, of a bird); to roost.
The macaw was perched on Jim's shoulder.

Perch

(intransitive) To sit upon the edge of something.

Perch

(intransitive) To stay in an elevated position.

Perch

(transitive) To place something on (or as if on) a perch.

Perch

To inspect cloth using a perch.

Perch

Any fresh-water fish of the genus Perca and of several other allied genera of the family Percidæ, as the common American or yellow perch (Perca flavescens syn. Perca Americana), and the European perch (Perca fluviatilis).

Perch

Any one of numerous species of spiny-finned fishes belonging to the Percidæ, Serranidæ, and related families, and resembling, more or less, the true perches.

Perch

A pole; a long staff; a rod; esp., a pole or other support for fowls to roost on or to rest on; a roost; figuratively, any elevated resting place or seat.
As chauntecleer among his wives allSat on his perche, that was in his hall.
Not making his high place the lawless perchOf winged ambitions.

Perch

A measure of length containing five and a half yards; a rod, or pole.

Perch

A pole connecting the fore gear and hind gear of a spring carriage; a reach.

Perch

To alight or settle, as a bird; to sit or roost.
Wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch.

Perch

To place or to set on, or as on, a perch.

Perch

To occupy as a perch.

Perch

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

Perch

A linear measure of 16.5 feet

Perch

A square rod of land

Perch

An elevated place serving as a seat

Perch

Any of numerous fishes of America and Europe

Perch

Spiny-finned freshwater food and game fishes

Perch

Any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of various families of the order Perciformes

Perch

Sit, as on a branch;
The birds perched high in the treee

Perch

To come to rest, settle;
Misfortune lighted upon him

Perch

Cause to perch or sit;
She perched her hat on her head

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