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Definition of 'fish'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) fish
any of various cold-blooded, aquatic vertebrates having gills, commonly fins, and typically an elongated body covered with scales: includes three unrelated classes.

2.  fish
(loosely) any of various other aquatic animals.

3.  fish
the flesh of fishes used as food.

4.  fish
Fishes,

5.  fish
Informal. a person:
an odd fish; a poor fish.

6.  fish
Slang. a new prison inmate.

7.  fish
a long strip of wood, iron, etc., used to strengthen a mast, joint, etc.

8. (v.t.) fish
to go fishing for:
to fish trout.

9.  fish
to try to catch fish in (a stream, lake, etc.).

10.  fish
to draw as if fishing (often fol. by up or out):
He fished a coin out of his pocket.

11.  fish
to reinforce (a mast or other spar) by fastening a spar, batten, metal bar, or the like, lengthwise over a weak place.

12. (v.i.) fish
to catch or attempt to catch fish.

13.  fish
to search carefully:
to fish through one's pockets.

14.  fish
to seek to obtain something indirectly or by artifice:
fishing for a compliment.

15.  fish
to search for or attempt to catch onto something under water, in mud, etc.:
to fish for mussels.

16. (n.) Fish
Hamilton, 1808–93, U.S. secretary of state 1869–77.

Definition of 'fish'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) fish
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"

2. (noun) 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"

3. (noun) Pisces, Fish
(astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Pisces

4. (verb) Pisces, Pisces the Fishes, Fish
the twelfth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about February 19 to March 20

5. (verb) fish, angle
seek indirectly
"fish for compliments"

6. (verb) fish
catch or try to catch fish or shellfish
"I like to go fishing on weekends"

Definition of 'fish'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) fish
an animal with gills and fins that lives in water, or the meat of this animal
an angel fish; I don't eat much fish.

2. (verb) fish
to try to catch fish
a boy fishing in the river

3. fish
to look for by feeling inside sth
I fished around in my purse for my cars keys.

Definition of 'fish'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) fish
a counter, used in various games

2. (noun) fish
a name loosely applied in popular usage to many animals of diverse characteristics, living in the water

3. (noun) 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

4. (noun) fish
the twelfth sign of the zodiac; Pisces

5. (noun) fish
the flesh of fish, used as food

6. (noun) fish
a purchase used to fish the anchor

7. (noun) fish
a piece of timber, somewhat in the form of a fish, used to strengthen a mast or yard

8. fish
of Fish

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

10. (verb) fish
to seek to obtain by artifice, or indirectly to seek to draw forth; as, to fish for compliments

11. (verb) fish
to catch; to draw out or up; as, to fish up an anchor

12. (verb) fish
to search by raking or sweeping

13. (verb) fish
to try with a fishing rod; to catch fish in; as, to fish a stream

14. (verb) fish
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

Definitions of 'fish'

The New Hacker's Dictionary

1. fish
[Adelaide University, Australia]

1. Another metasyntactic variable. See foo. Derived originally from the Monty Python skit in the middle of The Meaning of Life entitled Find the Fish.

2. A pun for microfiche. A microfiche file cabinet may be referred to as a fish tank.

Translation of 'fish'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a kind of creature that lives in water and breathes through gills There are plenty of fish around the coast.
Afrikaans: vis	Arabic: سَمَك	Bulgarian: риба
Brazilian: peixe	Czech: ryba	German: der Fisch
Danish: fisk	Greek: ψάρι	Spanish: pez
Estonian: kala	Farsi: ماهی	Finnish: kala
French: poisson	Hebrew: דָג	Hindi: मछली
Croatian: riba	Hungarian: hal	Indonesian: ikan
Icelandic: fiskur	Italian: pesce	Japanese: 魚
Korean: 어류	Lithuanian: žuvis	Latvian: zivs; zivis
Malay: ikan	Dutch: vis	Norwegian: fisk
Polish: ryba	Persian: ماهی	Pashto: کب
Portuguese: peixe	Romanian: peşte	Russian: рыба
Slovak: ryba	Slovenian: riba	Serbian: riba
Swedish: fisk	Thai: ปลา	Turkish: balık
Taiwanese: 魚	Ukrainian: риба	Urdu: مچھلی
Vietnamese: cá	Chinese: 鱼
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