Tea vs. Fish — What's the Difference?

Tea is an aromatic beverage prepared by pouring hot or boiling water over cured or fresh leaves of Camellia sinensis, an evergreen shrub native to China and East Asia. After water, it is the most widely consumed drink in the world.

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.

A hot drink made by infusing the dried crushed leaves of the tea plant in boiling water

A limbless cold-blooded vertebrate animal with gills and fins living wholly in water

The evergreen shrub or small tree which produces tea leaves, native to southern and eastern Asia and grown as a major cash crop.

A person who is strange in a specified way

A light afternoon meal consisting typically of tea to drink, sandwiches, and cakes

A flat plate that is fixed on a beam or across a joint in order to give additional strength.

Drink tea or take afternoon tea

Catch or try to catch fish, typically by using a net or hook and line

An evergreen shrub or small tree (Camellia sinensis) native to Asia, having fragrant, nodding, cup-shaped white flowers and glossy leaves.

Search by groping or feeling for something concealed

The young, dried leaves of this plant, prepared by various processes and used to make a beverage, usually served hot.

Mend or strengthen with a fish.

An aromatic, slightly bitter beverage made by steeping tea leaves in boiling water.

Join (rails in a railway track) with a fishplate.

Any of various plants, such as New Jersey tea, having leaves that are or were formerly used to make a tealike beverage.

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.

Any of various beverages made by steeping the leaves, flowers, fruits, or other parts of certain plants

Any of various jawless aquatic craniates, including the lampreys and hagfishes.

Any of various beverages made by extracting an infusion from meat, especially beef.

The flesh of such animals used as food.

A tea rose.

(Informal) A person, especially one considered deficient in something

An afternoon refreshment consisting usually of sandwiches and cakes served with tea.

To catch or try to catch fish.

High tea.

To look for something by feeling one's way; grope

An afternoon reception or social gathering at which tea is served.

To seek something in a sly or indirect way

(Slang) Marijuana.

To catch or try to catch (fish).

(uncountable) The tea plant (Camellia sinensis); (countable) a variety of this plant.

To catch or try to catch fish in

(uncountable) The dried leaves or buds of the tea plant; (countable) a variety of such leaves.

To catch or pull as if fishing

(uncountable) The drink made by infusing these dried leaves or buds in hot water.

(countable) A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.

(uncountable) Any similar drink made by infusing parts of various other plants.

Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water.

Meat stock served as a hot drink.

(Newfoundland) Cod; codfish.

A cup or glass of any of these drinks, often with milk, sugar, lemon, and/or tapioca pearls.

(uncountable) The flesh of the fish used as food.

A light midafternoon meal, typically but not necessarily including tea.

(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.

Syn of supper, the main evening meal, whether or not it includes tea.

A woman.

(cricket) The break in play between the second and third sessions.

An easy victim for swindling.

Syn of marijuana.

A bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player).

Information, especially gossip.

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 moment, a historical unit of time from China, about the amount of time needed to quickly drink a traditional cup of tea. It is now found in Chinese-language historical fiction.

(nautical) A purchase used to fish the anchor.

To drink tea.

A torpedo self-propelled explosive device.

To take afternoon tea (the light meal).

(zoology) A paraphyletic grouping of the following extant taxonomic groups:

To give tea.

Class Myxini, the hagfish (no vertebrae)

The prepared leaves of a shrub, or small tree (Thea Chinensis or Camellia Chinensis). The shrub is a native of China, but has been introduced to some extent into some other countries.

Class Petromyzontida, the lampreys (no jaw)

A decoction or infusion of tea leaves in boiling water; as, tea is a common beverage.

Within infraphylum Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates (also including Tetrapoda))

Any infusion or decoction, especially when made of the dried leaves of plants; as, sage tea; chamomile tea; catnip tea.

(cartomancy) The thirty-fourth Lenormand card.

The evening meal, at which tea is usually served; supper.

(prison slang) A new (usually vulnerable) prisoner.

To take or drink tea.

A male homosexual; a gay man.

A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water;

A period of time spent fishing.

A light midafternoon meal of tea and sandwiches or cakes;

An instance of seeking something.

Dried leaves of the tea shrub; used to make tea;

(obsolete) A counter, used in various games.

A reception or party at which tea is served;

(intransitive) To hunt fish or other aquatic animals in a body of water.

A tropical evergreen shrub or small tree extensively cultivated in e.g. China and Japan and India; source of tea leaves;

(transitive) To search (a body of water) for something other than fish.

To use as bait when fishing.

(intransitive) 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.

A counter, used in various games.

A name loosely applied in popular usage to many animals of diverse characteristics, living in the water.

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.

The twelfth sign of the zodiac; Pisces.

The flesh of fish, used as food.

A purchase used to fish the anchor.

To attempt to catch fish; to be employed in taking fish, by any means, as by angling or drawing a net.

To seek to obtain by artifice, or indirectly to seek to draw forth; as, to fish for compliments.

To catch; to draw out or up; as, to fish up an anchor.

To search by raking or sweeping.

To try with a fishing rod; to catch fish in; as, to fish a stream.

Any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills;

The flesh of fish used as food;

(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

Seek indirectly;

Catch or try to catch fish or shellfish;