Silverfish vs. Fish — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Silverfish and Fish
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Silverfish
The silverfish (Lepisma saccharinum) is a species of small, primitive, wingless insect in the order Zygentoma (formerly Thysanura). Its common name derives from the insect's silvery light grey colour, combined with the fish-like appearance of its movements.
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.
Silverfish
Any of various fishes having silvery scales, such as a tarpon or silverside.
Fish
A limbless cold-blooded vertebrate animal with gills and fins living wholly in water
The huge lakes are now devoid of fish
Silverfish
Any of various small wingless insects of the order Thysanura, having a silvery body and a three-pronged tail, especially Lepisma saccharina, which feeds on the starchy material in bookbindings, clothing, and food.
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Fish
A person who is strange in a specified way
He is generally thought to be a bit of a cold fish
Silverfish
Certain insects
Fish
A flat plate that is fixed on a beam or across a joint in order to give additional strength.
Silverfish
Lepisma saccharina, a small wingless insect with silvery scales, a type of bristletail.
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
Silverfish
Other similar insects in the order Zygentoma, including:
Fish
Search by groping or feeling for something concealed
He fished for his registration certificate and held it up to the policeman's torch
Silverfish
Certain fish
Fish
Mend or strengthen with a fish.
Silverfish
Megalops atlanticus (Atlantic tarpon, tarpum.
Fish
Join (rails in a railway track) with a fishplate.
Silverfish
Raiamas senegalensis (silver fish).
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.
Silverfish
, Pleuragramma antarcticum.
Fish
Any of various jawless aquatic craniates, including the lampreys and hagfishes.
Silverfish
A white variety of the goldfish.
Fish
The flesh of such animals used as food.
Silverfish
Aphareus rutilans (rusty jobfish)
Fish
(Informal) A person, especially one considered deficient in something
A poor fish.
Silverfish
Argentina sphyraena (herring smelt)
Fish
To catch or try to catch fish.
Silverfish
Argyrozona argyrozona (carpenter sea bream)
Fish
To look for something by feeling one's way; grope
Fished in both pockets for a coin.
Silverfish
Labeobarbus bynni (Niger barb, barbel, Nile barb)
Fish
To seek something in a sly or indirect way
Fish for compliments.
Silverfish
Enteromius mattozi (papermouth])
Fish
To catch or try to catch (fish).
Silverfish
Callorhinchus milii (elephant shark)
Fish
To catch or try to catch fish in
Fish mountain streams.
Silverfish
Elops saurus (ladyfish)
Fish
To catch or pull as if fishing
Deftly fished the corn out of the boiling water.
Silverfish
Leptatherina presbyteroides (hardyhead, prettyfish)
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.
Silverfish
Pseudocaranx dentex (white trevally)
Fish
Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water.
Silverfish
Steindachnerina argentea (toothless characin)
Fish
(Newfoundland) Cod; codfish.
Silverfish
Trachinotus ovatus (pompano)
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.
Silverfish
Trichiurus lepturus (largehead hairtail)
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.
Silverfish
Ulaema lefroyi (mottled mojarra)
Fish
A woman.
Silverfish
The tarpum.
Fish
An easy victim for swindling.
Silverfish
One of a variety of insects of the order Thysanura, especially Lepisma saccharina, which may infest houses, and eats starched clothing and sized papers. See Lepisma.
Fish
A bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player).
Silverfish
Silver-gray wingless insect found in houses feeding on book bindings and starched clothing
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.
Silverfish
A silvery variety of Carassius auratus
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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