Synonym: rest, settle, sit, straddle. Similar words: merchant, merchandise, handkerchief, torch, march, porch, mercy, urchin. Meaning: [pɜrtʃ /pɜː-] 
n. 1. support consisting of a branch or rod that serves as a resting place (especially for a bird) 2. a linear measure of 16.5 feet 3. a square rod of land 4. an elevated place serving as a seat 5. any of numerous fishes of America and Europe 6. spiny-finned freshwater food and game fishes 7. any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of various families of the order Perciformes. v. 1. sit, as on a branch 2. to come to rest, settle 3. cause to perch or sit.
n. 1. support consisting of a branch or rod that serves as a resting place (especially for a bird) 2. a linear measure of 16.5 feet 3. a square rod of land 4. an elevated place serving as a seat 5. any of numerous fishes of America and Europe 6. spiny-finned freshwater food and game fishes 7. any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of various families of the order Perciformes. v. 1. sit, as on a branch 2. to come to rest, settle 3. cause to perch or sit. 
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(31) The Everglades kite in Florida picks up snails and carries them off to a feeding perch.
(32) The continents and other landmasses perch on top of the plates, and consequently likewise move relative to each other.
(33) He watched the lessons from his perch, and when they were over he ran all the way home.
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(34) Again it rose from its leafy perch and soared up into the sky.
(35) Nile perch: a fine food fish, but responsible for one of the greatest biological disasters of the twentieth century.
(36) As a precaution, I taped plastic sheeting over both seats, in case he got restless on his perch.
(37) He was so pointy that I feared he would leave his wooden perch and anoint my head with his beak.
(38) There was the jade-green cockatoo on his orange perch, gazing pensively down the street.
(39) They get a great view of the game from their perch in the press-box.
(40) Often they perch on rooftops like gargoyles, waiting hours for nightfall so they can take wing.
(41) The momentum derives not from a lulling flow or titillating suspense but from astoundingly acrobatic leaps from perch to perch.
(42) A great white heron uses a water buffalo as a fishing perch.
(43) The king vulture sat on its perch, naked head and neck.
(44) They also provide a more comfortable perch than a bar stool for those most interested in conversation.
(45) The next two nights he again chose the same perch under the roof.
(46) Culmination, the longed-for moment when a wild bird would cat from his hand or perch on his shoulder, never occurred.
(47) Researchers believe that the ecological balance was upset by the decision to introduce the Nile perch into the lake in 1960.
(48) The young bird has to perch upright on the rim while it grows its feathers.
(49) I must learn to sublimate my desire for my own perch by feeling happy for Aunt Louise sitting there.
(50) They may try to nail it on the perch again but nobody will believe it is still alive.
(51) Right at the back, sitting stony-eyed on a perch, was a large buzzard.
(52) Skimmers, roach and small perch from most Liverpool sections but pike active.
(53) At first Dawn would attempt to continue beyond the far perch where I was waiting, instead of landing on my glove.
(54) But there are plenty of things that threaten anew to knock Clinton off his presidential perch.
(55) But it's a giant leap for trout, tench, roach, loach, pike, perch and bream.
(56) Fumbling for the switch, he brought the lamp off its perch.
(57) We are unlikely to find the body of a bird that drops dead off its perch in a bush.
(58) The only hint of what goes on inside are the vultures that perch on its whitewashed outer walls.
(59) Even from his perch in the hayloft, he can see that this hide will be free from cuts and nicks.
(60) Perhaps he can borrow a reptile to perch next to him and lap up his tears as they fall.