Fishnoun
(countable) A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
âSalmon is a fish.â; âThe Sun Mother created all the fishes of the world.â; âThe Sun Mother created all the fish of the world.â; âWe have many fish in our aquarium.â;
Seafoodnoun
Fish, shellfish, seaweed, and other edible aquatic life.
Fishnoun
Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water.
Seafoodnoun
edible fish (broadly including freshwater fish) or shellfish or roe etc
Fishnoun
(uncountable) The flesh of the fish used as food.
âThe seafood pasta had lots of fish but not enough pasta.â;
Seafoodnoun
shellfish and sea fish, served as food
âa seafood restaurantâ; âlocal seafoodâ;
Fishnoun
(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.
Seafood
Seafood is any form of sea life regarded as food by humans, prominently including fish and shellfish. Shellfish include various species of molluscs (e.g.
Fishnoun
A woman.
Fishnoun
An easy victim for swindling.
Fishnoun
A bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player).
Fishnoun
A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish, used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.
Fishnoun
(nautical) A purchase used to fish the anchor.
Fishnoun
A torpedo.
Fishnoun
(zoology) A paraphyletic grouping of the following extant taxonomic groups:
Fishnoun
Class Myxini, the hagfish (no vertebra)
Fishnoun
Class Petromyzontida, the lampreys (no jaw)
Fishnoun
Within infraphylum Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates (also including Tetrapoda)
Fishnoun
(cartomancy) The thirty-fourth Lenormand card.
Fishnoun
A period of time spent fishing.
âThe fish at the lake didn't prove successful.â;
Fishnoun
An instance of seeking something.
âMerely two fishes for information told the whole story.â;
Fishnoun
(obsolete) A counter, used in various games.
Fishverb
(intransitive) To hunt fish or other aquatic animals.
âShe went to the river to fish for trout.â;
Fishverb
(transitive) To search (a body of water) for something other than fish.
âThey fished the surrounding lakes for the dead body.â;
Fishverb
(intransitive) To (attempt to) find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.
âWhy are you fishing through my things?â; âHe was fishing for the keys in his pocket.â;
Fishverb
To talk to people in an attempt to get them to say something.
âThe detective visited the local pubs fishing around for more information.â; âThe actors loitered at the door, fishing for compliments.â;
Fishverb
Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.
Fishverb
(nautical) 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).
Fishnoun
A counter, used in various games.
Fishnoun
A name loosely applied in popular usage to many animals of diverse characteristics, living in the water.
Fishnoun
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.
Fishnoun
The twelfth sign of the zodiac; Pisces.
Fishnoun
The flesh of fish, used as food.
Fishnoun
A purchase used to fish the anchor.
Fishverb
To attempt to catch fish; to be employed in taking fish, by any means, as by angling or drawing a net.
Fishverb
To seek to obtain by artifice, or indirectly to seek to draw forth; as, to fish for compliments.
âAny other fishing question.â;
Fishverb
To catch; to draw out or up; as, to fish up an anchor.
Fishverb
To search by raking or sweeping.
Fishverb
To try with a fishing rod; to catch fish in; as, to fish a stream.
Fishverb
To strengthen (a beam, mast, etc.), or unite end to end (two timbers, railroad rails, etc.) by bolting a plank, timber, or plate to the beam, mast, or timbers, lengthwise on one or both sides. See Fish joint, under Fish, n.
Fishnoun
any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills;
âthe shark is a large fishâ; âin the livingroom there was a tank of colorful fishâ;
Fishnoun
the flesh of fish used as food;
âin Japan most fish is eaten rawâ; âafter the scare about foot-and-mouth disease a lot of people started eating fish instead of meatâ; âthey have a chef who specializes in fishâ;
Fishnoun
(astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Pisces
Fishnoun
the twelfth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about February 19 to March 20
Fishverb
seek indirectly;
âfish for complimentsâ;
Fishverb
catch or try to catch fish or shellfish;
âI like to go fishing on weekendsâ;
Fishnoun
a limbless cold-blooded vertebrate animal with gills and fins living wholly in water
âthe huge lakes are now devoid of fishâ;
Fishnoun
the flesh of fish as food
âa dinner of meat, dried fish, and breadâ;
Fishnoun
the zodiacal sign or constellation Pisces.
Fishnoun
used in names of invertebrate animals living wholly in water, e.g. cuttlefish, shellfish, jellyfish.
Fishnoun
a torpedo.
Fishnoun
a person who is strange in a specified way
âhe is generally thought to be a bit of a cold fishâ;
Fishnoun
a flat plate that is fixed on a beam or across a joint in order to give additional strength.
Fishnoun
a long, slightly curved piece of wood that is lashed to a ship's damaged mast or spar as a temporary repair.
Fishverb
catch or try to catch fish, typically by using a net or hook and line
âhe was fishing for pikeâ; âI've told the girls we've gone fishingâ;
Fishverb
catch or try to catch fish in (a particular body of water)
âmany of the lochs we used to fish are now affected by forestryâ;
Fishverb
search by groping or feeling for something concealed
âhe fished for his registration certificate and held it up to the policeman's torchâ;
Fishverb
try subtly or deviously to elicit a response or some information from someone
âI was not fishing for complimentsâ;
Fishverb
pull or take something out of water or a receptacle
âthe body of a woman had been fished out of the riverâ;
Fishverb
mend or strengthen with a fish.
Fishverb
join (rails in a railway track) with a fishplate.
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.