fish English
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Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (compare (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m).
Noun
(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 Sun Mother created all the fishes of the world.
- The Sun Mother created all the fish of the world.
- We have many fish in our aquarium.
Any animal that lives exclusively in water.
* 1774 , Oliver Goldsmith, History of the Earth and Animated Nature , Volume IV:
- The whale, the limpet, the tortoise and the oyster… as men have been willing to give them all the name of fishes , it is wisest for us to conform.
(uncountable) The flesh of the fish used as food.
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- The seafood pasta had lots of fish but not enough pasta.
(countable) A period of time spent fishing.
- The fish at the lake didn't prove successful.
(countable) An instance of seeking something.
- Merely two fishes for information told the whole story.
(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.
(uncountable, derogatory, slang) A woman.
(countable, slang) An easy victim for swindling.
(countable, poker slang) A bad poker player.
(countable, nautical) A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish, used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.
(nautical) A purchase used to fish the anchor.
(countable, nautical) A torpedo.
* 1977 , (w, Richard O'Kane), Clear the Bridge: The War Patrols of the U.S.S. Tang , Ballantine Books (2003), page 344:
- The second and third fish went to the middle of her long superstructure and under her forward deck.
(zoology) A polyphyletic grouping of the following extant taxonomic groups:
# Class Myxini, the hagfish (no vertebra)
# Class Petromyzontida, the lampreys (no jaw)
# Within infraphylum Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates (also including Tetrapoda)
## Class Chondrichthyes, cartilaginous fish such as sharks and rays
## Superclass Osteichthyes, bony fish.
Usage notes
The collective plural of fish'' is always ''fish'' in the UK; in the US, ''fishes'' is encountered as well. When referring to two or more kinds of fish, the plural is ''fishes .
Synonyms
* (potential swindling victim) mark
* (card game) Go Fish
* (bad poker player) donkey, donk
Related terms
* (adj) piscine, ichthyic, ichthyal (formal), fishy
* (astronomical) The Fish, Pisces
* (collective) piscifauna
* (combinatorial form) ichthyo- (qualifier), pisci- (qualifier)
* (fish-catcher) See fisher
* (fish-eater) ichthyophage
* (fish fossil) ichthyolite
* (fish-infesting) piscolous
* (fish-killing) piscicidal
* (fish-like) icthyoid (formal), piscose (culinary), fishy, fishlike
* (fish science) ichthyology (proper), piscatology
* (fish scientist) ichthyologist
* (fish shape) ichthus
* (fish-shaped) pisciform, ichthyoid, ichthyomorphic
* (fish vendor) fishmonger, piscitarian
* (full of fish) pisculent
* ichthyarchy
* (skin disorder) ichthyosis (formal), fish-skin disease, porcupine disease
* (state of being a fish) piscinity (formal), fishiness
* (writer on fish) ichthyographer
* (writing on fish) ichthyography
Derived terms
{{der3, big fish in a small pond
, bony fish
, cold fish
, dragonfish
, drink like a fish
, fish and chips
, fish bowl/fishbowl
, fishbrain
, fishcake
, fisher
, fisherman
, fish-eating grin
, fish finger
, fishful
, fishgig
, fish hook/fishhook
, fishkill
, fish ladder, fishway
, fishless
, fishlike
, fishling
, fishly
, fishmeal
, fishmonger
, fishmoth
, fish out of water
, fish paste/fishpaste
, fish pond/fishpond
, fishpound
, fishpox
, fishroom
, fish sauce
, fishskin
, fishskin disease
, fish slice
, fish supper
, fishtail
, fish tank/fishtank
, fish tape
, fishwife
, fishwoman
, fishworm
, fishy
,
, goatfish
, goldfish
, have other fish to fry
, like shooting fish in a barrel
, jellyfish
, lumpfish
, overfish
, queer fish
, sailfish
, shellfish
, silverfish
, starfish
, neither fish nor fowl
, surgeonfish
, swim like a fish
, there's plenty more fish in the sea
, tuna fish}}
Hyponyms
* (aquatic cold-blooded vertabrae with gills) Cephalaspidomorphi, Chondrichthyes, Osteichthyes
* (food) seafood
See also
*
Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .
Verb
( es)
To try to catch fish, whether successfully or not.
- She went to the river to fish for trout.
To try to find something other than fish in (a body of water).
- They fished the surrounding lakes for the dead body.
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.
To attempt to obtain information by talking to people.
- The detective visited the local pubs fishing around for more information.
(cricket) Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.
To attempt to gain.
- The actors loitered at the door, fishing for compliments.
(nautical) To repair a spar or mast using a brace often called a fish (see NOUN above).
* 1970 , James Henderson, The Frigates, an account of the lesser warships of the wars from 1793 to 1815 , Wordsworth (1998), page 143:
- the crew were set to replacing and splicing the rigging and fishing the spars.
Synonyms
* (try to catch a fish) angle, drop in a line
* (try to find something) rifle, rummage
* angle
Derived terms
{{der3, fishable
, fisher
, fishery
, fishline
, fishnet/fishnet stockings
, fish out}}
Etymology 3
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Noun
( es)
(obsolete) A counter, used in various games.
( Webster 1913)
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eagle English
Noun
( en noun)
Any of several large carnivorous and carrion-eating birds in the family Accipitridae, having a powerful hooked bill and keen vision.
(heraldiccharge) A representation of such a bird carried as an emblem, e.g. on a coat of arms.
(US, currency) A gold coin with a face value of $10.00 formerly used in the United States.
(golf) A score of two under par for a hole.
Derived terms
(terms derived from the carnivorous bird)
* American eagle
* bald eagle
* eagle-eye, eagle-eyed
* eaglehawk
* eagle owl
* Eagle Scout
* eaglestone
* eaglet
* fish eagle
* golden eagle
* Haast's eagle
* Philippine eagle
* (red-backed sea-eagle)
* sea eagle
* spread eagle
* wedge-tailed eagle
* (white-bellied sea eagle)
* (white-breasted sea eagle)
* white-tailed eagle
* double eagle
* half eagle
Synonyms
* (Accipitridae) erne, broadwing
Verb
(golf) To score an eagle.
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