A fish of the genus Istiophorus, having a characteristic sail-like fin on its back.
Used in a Sentence
sailfish
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for sailfish.
Editorial note
Meego became Mer on which Sailfish is based, and it has enough users, so your argument is invalid.
Examples17
Definitions3
Parts of speech1
Quick take
A fish of the genus Istiophorus, having a characteristic sail-like fin on its back.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of sailfish gathered in one view.
The basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus).
The quillback (Carpiodes cyprinus).
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for sailfish.
noun
A fish of the genus Istiophorus, having a characteristic sail-like fin on its back.
noun
The basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus).
noun
The quillback (Carpiodes cyprinus).
Example sentences
Meego became Mer on which Sailfish is based, and it has enough users, so your argument is invalid.
That's why it's not portable to let's say Sailfish / Nemo and other mobile Linuxes, unlike the old XUL Fennec.
In theory, Sailfish could sandbox/isolate native app data from the compatibility layer which runs Android apps.
When Nokia and Intel pulled the plug, Meego disintegrated and only community fork (Mer) survived, on which Sailfish is actually built.
Jolla uses a Qt port of Gecko (ESR, it seems) as the engine of Sailfish Browser, the default browser on Jolla devices.
You are now mixing debs, click packages, apks, app manifests, and RPMs from Sailfish on one system.
As you used MeeGo, how does Sailfish OS appear to compare with it?
Do you think Nokia could start making Android and/or Sailfish handsets by then?
For example the Sailfish people removed the component that renders native buttons, because that would have been a lot of work to port to Qt 5.
Would be useful for Nemo, Sailfish and Plasma Active.
MS saw what Google's relationships with its OEMs was like (reskinning, not doing updates, in-fighting, threats to move to tizen/sailfish, endless compromises, bloatware, etc) and wanted nothing of that.
The dream, of course, is that Sailfish / Ubuntu Touch / Firefox OS all eventually rebase off Plasma Mobile and just provide their own UI shells over it, so that all the major open source mobile players are working in one ecosystem rather than working in their own trees at their own companies not trying to play ball with the competition.
Quote examples
I'm a bit torn on that, since switching away from "Webby" interface basically killed Fennec for Meego, and only Android started getting UI improvements (that's what triggered a separate browser for Sailfish to begin with).
Sailfish unfortunately does not have all of the UI things I'm talking about -- the "three screen with edge gestures", which is a shame:( They couldn't, because the N9's UI was never open sourced despite the core being so.
Proper noun examples
Sailfish is probably better in this respect (or at least the company is smaller).
Then again, maybe Maemo should have just died at that point, rather than be resurrected as Mer/Sailfish.
While Maemo was Debian in a mobile device, Mer/Sailfish at this point is as close to that as Android is.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use sailfish in a sentence?
Meego became Mer on which Sailfish is based, and it has enough users, so your argument is invalid.
What does sailfish mean?
A fish of the genus Istiophorus, having a characteristic sail-like fin on its back.
What part of speech is sailfish?
sailfish is commonly used as noun.