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fish
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What does fish mean?
noun
- A typically cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills; any vertebrate that is not a tetrapod.
- Any vertebrate, including tetrapods.
- Cod; codfish.
More meanings (31)
noun
- The flesh of the fish used as food.
- An aquatic or semiaquatic animal suitable for consumption during fasting on Fridays during Lent.
- 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.
- (slang) An easy victim for swindling.
- (slang) A bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player).
- 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 purchase used to fish the anchor.
- (slang) A torpedo (self-propelled explosive device).
- The thirty-fourth Lenormand card.
- (slang) A new (usually vulnerable) prisoner.
- A drag queen or transgender woman who looks like a cisgender woman.
- A period of time spent fishing.
- An instance of seeking something.
- Acronym of fluorescent in situ hybridization, a molecular cytogenetic technique used to identify whether a DNA sample has a specific sequence.
- (archaic) Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water.
- (archaic) Now used in combination: (e.g., starfish, cuttlefish, jellyfish, etc).
- (derogatory, slang) A (feminine) woman. (See also fishy.)
- (derogatory, offensive) A male homosexual; a gay man.
- (rare) A spaceship.
- (obsolete) A counter, used in various games.
verb
- To hunt fish or other aquatic animals in a body of water, or to collect coral or pearls from the bottom of the sea.
- To search (a body of water) for something other than fish.
- To use as bait when fishing.
- 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.
- To draw or guide (a wire or cable) by means of fish tape.
proper noun
- A surname.
- The constellation and zodiacal sign Pisces.
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The eyes, staring at the youth, had changed to the dull hue to be seen on the side of a dead fish.
Start up, then, and, hurrying through the streets, burst in upon the company, that they may begin before the fish is spoiled!
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Indeed, many Russians reduced their consumption of higher priced meat, fish, milk, vegetables, and fruit, in favor of more bread and potatoes.
Finally the old lady was placed so that the light wavered over her, as though she were a fish in a net.
These fish, more numerous than the birds of the air, came, attracted, no doubt, by the brilliant focus of the electric light.