What does FISH mean?

Definitions for FISH
fɪʃfish

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. fishnoun

    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. fishnoun

    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. Pisces, Fishnoun

    (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Pisces

  4. Pisces, Pisces the Fishes, Fishverb

    the twelfth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about February 19 to March 20

  5. fish, angleverb

    seek indirectly

    "fish for compliments"

  6. fishverb

    catch or try to catch fish or shellfish

    "I like to go fishing on weekends"

Wiktionary

  1. Fishnoun

    from the common noun fish.

  2. Etymology: From fiscian, from fiskōnan.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. FISHnoun

    An animal that inhabits the water.

    Etymology: fisc, Saxon; visch, Dutch.

    The beasts, the fishes, and the winged fowls,
    Are their males subjects. William Shakespeare, Comedy of Errours.

    I fight when I cannot chuse, and I eat no fish. William Shakespeare, K. Lear.

    And now the fish ignoble fates escape,
    Since Venus ow’d her safety to their shape. Thomas Creech.

    There are fishes, that have wings, that are not strangers to the airy region; and there are some birds that are inhabitants of the water, whose blood is cold as fishes; and their flesh is so like in taste, that the scrupulous are allowed them on fishdays. John Locke.

  2. To Fishverb

    To search water in quest of fish, or any thing else.

    Some have fished the very jakes for papers left there by men of wit. Jonathan Swift.

    Oft, as he fish’d her nether realms for wit,
    The goddess favour’d him, and favours yet. Alexander Pope, Dunciad.

  3. To Fishverb

    While others fish, with craft, for great opinion,
    I, with great truth, catch meer simplicity. William Shakespeare.

Wikipedia

  1. 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. Approximately 95% of living fish species are ray-finned fish, belonging to the class Actinopterygii, with around 99% of those being teleosts. The earliest organisms that can be classified as fish were soft-bodied chordates that first appeared during the Cambrian period. Although they lacked a true spine, they possessed notochords which allowed them to be more agile than their invertebrate counterparts. Fish would continue to evolve through the Paleozoic era, diversifying into a wide variety of forms. Many fish of the Paleozoic developed external armor that protected them from predators. The first fish with jaws appeared in the Silurian period, after which many (such as sharks) became formidable marine predators rather than just the prey of arthropods. Most fish are ectothermic ("cold-blooded"), allowing their body temperatures to vary as ambient temperatures change, though some of the large active swimmers like white shark and tuna can hold a higher core temperature. Fish can acoustically communicate with each other, most often in the context of feeding, aggression or courtship.Fish are abundant in most bodies of water. They can be found in nearly all aquatic environments, from high mountain streams (e.g., char and gudgeon) to the abyssal and even hadal depths of the deepest oceans (e.g., cusk-eels and snailfish), although no species has yet been documented in the deepest 25% of the ocean. With 34,300 described species, fish exhibit greater species diversity than any other group of vertebrates.Fish are an important resource for humans worldwide, especially as food. Commercial and subsistence fishers hunt fish in wild fisheries or farm them in ponds or in cages in the ocean (in aquaculture). They are also caught by recreational fishers, kept as pets, raised by fishkeepers, and exhibited in public aquaria. Fish have had a role in culture through the ages, serving as deities, religious symbols, and as the subjects of art, books and movies. Tetrapods (amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals) emerged within lobe-finned fishes, so cladistically they are fish as well. However, traditionally fish (pisces or ichthyes) are rendered paraphyletic by excluding the tetrapods, and are therefore not considered a formal taxonomic grouping in systematic biology, unless it is used in the cladistic sense, including tetrapods, although usually "vertebrate" is preferred and used for this purpose (fish plus tetrapods) instead. Furthermore, cetaceans, although mammals, have often been considered fish by various cultures and time periods.

ChatGPT

  1. fish

    Fish are a group of cold-blooded, aquatic vertebrate animals that typically have gills, scales, and fins for swimming. They come in a variety of sizes, shapes, and colors and are found in nearly every aquatic habitat. They also exhibit a wide range of behaviors and adaptations, with some fish species being carnivorous, while others are herbivorous or omnivorous. Also, some species live in fresh water, others in salt water, and some can live in both. Reproduction methods also vary between species.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Fishnoun

    a counter, used in various games

  2. Fish

    of Fish

  3. Fishnoun

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

  4. 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

  5. Fishnoun

    the twelfth sign of the zodiac; Pisces

  6. Fishnoun

    the flesh of fish, used as food

  7. Fishnoun

    a purchase used to fish the anchor

  8. Fishnoun

    a piece of timber, somewhat in the form of a fish, used to strengthen a mast or yard

  9. Fishverb

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

  10. Fishverb

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

  11. Fishverb

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

  12. Fishverb

    to search by raking or sweeping

  13. Fishverb

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

  14. 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

  15. Etymology: [OE. fischen, fisken, fissen, AS. fiscian; akin to G. fischen, OHG. fiscn, Goth. fiskn. See Fish the animal.]

Wikidata

  1. Fish

    A fish is any member of a paraphyletic group of organisms that consist of all gill-bearing aquatic craniate 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. Most fish are ectothermic, allowing their body temperatures to vary as ambient temperatures change, though some of the large active swimmers like white shark and tuna can hold a higher core temperature. Fish are abundant in most bodies of water. They can be found in nearly all aquatic environments, from high mountain streams to the abyssal and even hadal depths of the deepest oceans. At 32,000 species, fish exhibit greater species diversity than any other group of vertebrates. Fish are an important resource for humans worldwide, especially as food. Commercial and subsistence fishers hunt fish in wild fisheries or farm them in ponds or in cages in the ocean. They are also caught by recreational fishers, kept as pets, raised by fishkeepers, and exhibited in public aquaria. Fish have had a role in culture through the ages, serving as deities, religious symbols, and as the subjects of art, books and movies.

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.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. fish

    A long piece of hard wood, convex on one side and concave on the other; two are bound opposite to each other to strengthen the lower masts or the yards when they are sprung, to effect which they are well secured by bolts and hoops, or stout rope called woolding. Also, colloquially, an epithet given to persons, as a prime fish, a queer fish, a shy fish, a loose fish, &c. As mute as a fish, when a man is very silent. Also, fish among whalers is expressly applied to whales. At the cry of "Fish! fish!" all the boats are instantly manned.

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. FISH

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Fish is ranked #1425 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Fish surname appeared 24,924 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 8 would have the surname Fish.

    91.8% or 22,898 total occurrences were White.
    1.9% or 491 total occurrences were Black.
    1.9% or 484 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
    1.9% or 476 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    1.6% or 414 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    0.6% or 164 total occurrences were Asian.

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'FISH' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #987

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'FISH' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1088

  3. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'FISH' in Nouns Frequency: #423

  4. Verbs Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'FISH' in Verbs Frequency: #1075

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of FISH in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of FISH in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of FISH in a Sentence

  1. Mike Dunleavy:

    EPA’s veto sets a dangerous precedent. Alarmingly, it lays the foundation to stop any development project, mining or non-mining, in any area of Alaska with wetlands and fish-bearing streams.

  2. Rogelio Zedillo:

    I think its a pity that they have closed what could have been a model prison, they were self-supporting, they (inmates) were producing. They grew vegetables. They had cattle, goats, pigs. There was a fish farm and a salt works ... the problem was political, the authorities decided not to continue as a penal colony, and so little by little it fell apart.

  3. Unknown:

    Fishing gives you a sense of where you fit in the sceme of things - Your place in the universe...I, mean, here I am, one small guy with a fishing pole on this vast beach and out there in the blue expanse of ocean are these hundreds of millions of fish...laughing at me.

  4. Adam Drewnowski:

    Food stores in low income neighborhoods will have a limited range of luxury goods like fresh fruit and vegetables or fish and poultry, yes, those have become luxury goods, like it or not.

  5. Ed Kolodziej:

    It would be surprising that these salmon are the only sensitive species of fish, to me, it's a simple probability argument. There are over 30,000 species of fish, and it would just be really unlikely that coho salmon are the only one.

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