POLLOCK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pollock mean? 

• POLLOCK (noun)
  The noun POLLOCK has 3 senses:

1. United States artist famous for painting with a drip technique; a leader of abstract expressionism in America (1912-1956)

2. lean white flesh of North Atlantic fish; similar to codfish

3. important food and game fish of northern seas (especially the northern Atlantic); related to cod

  Familiarity information: POLLOCK used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POLLOCK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States artist famous for painting with a drip technique; a leader of abstract expressionism in America (1912-1956)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Jackson Pollock; Pollock

Instance hypernyms:

painter (an artist who paints)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Lean white flesh of North Atlantic fish; similar to codfish

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

pollack; pollock

Hypernyms ("pollock" is a kind of...):

saltwater fish (flesh of fish from the sea used as food)

Holonyms ("pollock" is a part of...):

Pollachius pollachius; pollack; pollock (important food and game fish of northern seas (especially the northern Atlantic); related to cod)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Important food and game fish of northern seas (especially the northern Atlantic); related to cod

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Pollachius pollachius; pollack; pollock

Hypernyms ("pollock" is a kind of...):

gadoid; gadoid fish (a soft-finned fish of the family Gadidae)

Meronyms (parts of "pollock"):

pollack; pollock (lean white flesh of North Atlantic fish; similar to codfish)

Holonyms ("pollock" is a member of...):

genus Pollachius; Pollachius (pollack)

 Context examples 

"If you look at a painting by Jackson Pollock, you see a lot of different colors," Lambart says.

(Earth's mantle looks like a painting, National Science Foundation)

His suspicions being aroused, the sergeant followed the man, and with the aid of Constable Pollock succeeded, after a most desperate resistance, in arresting him.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Low mercury fish include salmon, shrimp, pollock, canned light tuna, tilapia, catfish, and cod.

(Brain benefits of aerobic exercise lost to mercury exposure, NIH)

Networks of channels then converge toward the mid-ocean ridge but don't mix — like the streaks of paint on a Jackson Pollock painting.

(Earth's mantle looks like a painting, National Science Foundation)