fish

Plural: fish, fishes

Noun

• any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills
  • "the shark is a large fish"
  • "in the living room there was a tank of colorful fish"
• the flesh of fish used as food
  • "in Japan most fish is eaten raw"
  • "after the scare about foot-and-mouth disease a lot of people started eating fish instead of meat"
  • "they have a chef who specializes in fish"
• (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Pisces
• the twelfth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about February 19 to March 20
• A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
• A paraphyletic grouping of the following taxonomic groups:
• A jawless fish (paraphyletic infraphylum Agnatha).
• A paraphyletic grouping of the following taxonomic groups:
• In infraphylum Gnathostomata:
• A cartilaginous fish (class Chondrichthyes).
• A paraphyletic grouping of the following taxonomic groups:
• In infraphylum Gnathostomata:
• A bony fish (clade Osteichthyes), including tetrapods.
• A paraphyletic grouping of the following taxonomic groups:
• In infraphylum Gnathostomata:
• A placoderm (paraphyletic class †Placodermi).
• A paraphyletic grouping of the following taxonomic groups:
• In infraphylum Gnathostomata:
• A spiny shark (paraphyletic class †Acanthodii)
• Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water.
• Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water.
• Now used in combination: (e.g., starfish, cuttlefish, jellyfish, etc).
• Cod; codfish.
• The flesh of the fish used as food.
• An aquatic or semiaquatic animal suitable for consumption during fasting on Fridays during Lent.
• A card game in which the object is to obtain cards in pairs or sets of four (depending on the variation), by asking the other players for cards of a particular rank.
• An easy victim for swindling.
• A bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player).
• A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish, used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.
• A purchase used to fish the anchor.
• A torpedo (self-propelled explosive device).
• The thirty-fourth Lenormand card.
• A (feminine) woman. (See also fishy.)
• A new (usually vulnerable) prisoner.
• A male homosexual; a gay man.
• A drag queen or transgender woman who looks like a cisgender woman.
• A period of time spent fishing.
• An instance of seeking something.
• A counter, used in various games.

Verb

Verb Forms: fished, fishing, fishes

• To attempt to catch fish; to search for something.
• seek indirectly
  • "fish for compliments"
• catch or try to catch fish or shellfish
  • "I like to go fishing on weekends"
• To hunt fish or other aquatic animals in a body of water, or to collect coral or pearls from the bottom of the sea.
• To search (a body of water) for something other than fish.
• To use as bait when fishing.
• To (attempt to) find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.
• To talk to people in an attempt to get them to say something, or seek to obtain something by artifice.
• Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.
• To repair (a spar or mast) by fastening a beam or other long object (often called a fish) over the damaged part (see Noun above).
• To hoist the flukes of.
• To draw or guide (a wire or cable) by means of fish tape.

Examples

• He was fishing for the keys in his pocket.
• Ichthyologists study the fish of the world.
• Merely two fishes for information told the whole story.
• Salmon is a fish.
• She went to the river to fish for trout.
• Sometimes you have to FISH for obscure words to clear a difficult rack.
• The actors loitered at the door, fishing for compliments.
• The detective visited the local pubs fishing around for more information.
• The fish at the lake didn't prove successful.
• The fishmonger sells fishes from all over the world.
• The seafood pasta had lots of fish but not enough pasta.
• They fished the surrounding lakes for the dead body.
• Though Lena is a vegetarian, she doesn't have any problem with eating fish.
• We have many fish in our aquarium.
• We went fishing for crabs by the pier.
• Why are you fishing through my things?

Synonyms

angle, Pisces, Pisces the Fishes, Go Fish, donk, donkey, drop in a line, fish, mark, rifle, rummage

Related Words

:Category:Fish, Actinopterygii, Appendix:Fish, Osteichthyes, Pisces, Sarcopterygii, The Fish, bony fish, cartilaginous fish, finfish, finned fish, fish-skin disease, fishdom, fisher, fishful, fishhood, fishiness, fishlike, fishlore, fishly, fishmonger, fishy, piscatology, pisci-, piscicidal, piscicolous, piscifauna, pisciform, piscine, piscinity, piscitarian, piscivore, piscose, pisculent

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