Fish vs. Lob — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Fish and Lob
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Fish
Fish are aquatic, craniate, gill-bearing animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish as well as various extinct related groups.
Lob
To hit, throw, or propel in a high arc
Lob a beach ball.
Lob a tennis shot over an opponent's head.
Fish
A limbless cold-blooded vertebrate animal with gills and fins living wholly in water
The huge lakes are now devoid of fish
Lob
To hit a ball in a high arc.
Fish
A person who is strange in a specified way
He is generally thought to be a bit of a cold fish
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Lob
To move heavily or clumsily.
Fish
A flat plate that is fixed on a beam or across a joint in order to give additional strength.
Lob
A ball hit, thrown, or propelled in a high arc.
Fish
Catch or try to catch fish, typically by using a net or hook and line
He was fishing for pike
I've told the girls we've gone fishing
Lob
(Slang)A clumsy dull person; a lout.
Fish
Search by groping or feeling for something concealed
He fished for his registration certificate and held it up to the policeman's torch
Lob
(transitive) To throw or hit a ball into the air in a high arch.
The guard lobbed a pass just over the defender.
The tennis player lobbed the ball, which was a costly mistake.
Fish
Mend or strengthen with a fish.
Lob
To throw.
Fish
Join (rails in a railway track) with a fishplate.
Lob
To put, place.
Lob the bacon in the pot.
Fish
Any of numerous cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates characteristically having fins, gills, and a streamlined body and including the bony fishes, such as catfishes and tunas, and the cartilaginous fishes, such as sharks and rays.
Lob
To hit, kick, or throw a ball over another player in a game.
Fish
Any of various jawless aquatic craniates, including the lampreys and hagfishes.
Lob
To let fall heavily or lazily.
Fish
The flesh of such animals used as food.
Lob
A pass or stroke which arches high into the air.
The guard launched a desperate lob over the outstretched arms of the defender.
Fish
(Informal) A person, especially one considered deficient in something
A poor fish.
Lob
A lump.
Fish
To catch or try to catch fish.
Lob
(obsolete) A country bumpkin; a yokel.
Fish
To look for something by feeling one's way; grope
Fished in both pockets for a coin.
Lob
A clumsy person.
Fish
To seek something in a sly or indirect way
Fish for compliments.
Lob
The person who comes last in a race.
Fish
To catch or try to catch (fish).
Lob
A lob-worm.
Fish
To catch or try to catch fish in
Fish mountain streams.
Lob
A fish, the European pollock.
Fish
To catch or pull as if fishing
Deftly fished the corn out of the boiling water.
Lob
A dull, heavy person.
Fish
(countable) A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
Salmon is a fish.
The fishmonger sells fishes from all over the world.
Ichthyologists study the fish of the world.
We have many fish in our aquarium.
Lob
Something thick and heavy.
Fish
Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water.
Lob
The European pollock.
Fish
(Newfoundland) Cod; codfish.
Lob
The act of lobbing;
Fish
(uncountable) The flesh of the fish used as food.
The seafood pasta had lots of fish but not enough pasta.
Though Lena is a vegetarian, she doesn't have any problem with eating fish.
Lob
To let fall heavily or lazily.
And their poor jadesLob down their heads.
Fish
(uncountable) 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.
Lob
To propel (relatively slowly) in a high arcing trajectory; as, to lob a grenade at the enemy.
Fish
A woman.
Lob
An easy return of a tennis ball in a high arc
Fish
An easy victim for swindling.
Lob
The act of propelling something (as a ball or shell etc.) in a high arc
Fish
A bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player).
Lob
Propel in a high arc;
Lob the tennis ball
Fish
A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish, used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.
Fish
(nautical) A purchase used to fish the anchor.
Fish
A torpedo self-propelled explosive device.
Fish
(zoology) A paraphyletic grouping of the following extant taxonomic groups:
Fish
Class Myxini, the hagfish (no vertebrae)
Fish
Class Petromyzontida, the lampreys (no jaw)
Fish
Within infraphylum Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates (also including Tetrapoda))
Fish
(cartomancy) The thirty-fourth Lenormand card.
Fish
(prison slang) A new (usually vulnerable) prisoner.
Fish
A male homosexual; a gay man.
Fish
A period of time spent fishing.
The fish at the lake didn't prove successful.
Fish
An instance of seeking something.
Merely two fishes for information told the whole story.
Fish
(obsolete) A counter, used in various games.
Fish
(intransitive) To hunt fish or other aquatic animals in a body of water.
We went fishing for crabs by the pier.
She went to the river to fish for trout.
Fish
(transitive) To search (a body of water) for something other than fish.
They fished the surrounding lakes for the dead body.
Fish
To use as bait when fishing.
Fish
(intransitive) To (attempt to) find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.
Why are you fishing through my things?
He was fishing for the keys in his pocket.
Fish
To talk to people in an attempt to get them to say something, or seek to obtain something by artifice.
The detective visited the local pubs fishing around for more information.
The actors loitered at the door, fishing for compliments.
Fish
Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.
Fish
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).
Fish
To hoist the flukes of.
Fish
A counter, used in various games.
Fish
A name loosely applied in popular usage to many animals of diverse characteristics, living in the water.
Fish
An oviparous, vertebrate animal usually having fins and a covering scales or plates. It breathes by means of gills, and lives almost entirely in the water. See Pisces.
Fish
The twelfth sign of the zodiac; Pisces.
Fish
The flesh of fish, used as food.
Fish
A purchase used to fish the anchor.
Fish
To attempt to catch fish; to be employed in taking fish, by any means, as by angling or drawing a net.
Fish
To seek to obtain by artifice, or indirectly to seek to draw forth; as, to fish for compliments.
Any other fishing question.
Fish
To catch; to draw out or up; as, to fish up an anchor.
Fish
To search by raking or sweeping.
Fish
To try with a fishing rod; to catch fish in; as, to fish a stream.
Fish
Any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills;
The shark is a large fish
In the livingroom there was a tank of colorful fish
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
Fish
(astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Pisces
Fish
The twelfth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about February 19 to March 20
Fish
Seek indirectly;
Fish for compliments
Fish
Catch or try to catch fish or shellfish;
I like to go fishing on weekends
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