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(countable) A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
Any animal that lives exclusively in water.
* 1774 , Oliver Goldsmith, History of the Earth and Animated Nature , Volume IV:
(uncountable) The flesh of the fish used as food.
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(countable) A period of time spent fishing.
(countable) An instance of seeking something.
(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:
(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.
To try to catch fish, whether successfully or not.
To try to find something other than fish in (a body of water).
To attempt to find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.
To attempt to obtain information by talking to people.
(cricket) Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.
To attempt to gain.
(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 silken structure a spider builds using silk secreted from the spinnerets at the caudal tip of its abdomen; a spiderweb.
Any interconnected set of persons, places, or things, which when diagrammed resembles a spider's web.
* Hawthorne
* Washington Irving
Specifically , the World Wide Web (often capitalized Web).
(baseball) The part of a baseball mitt between the forefinger and thumb, the webbing.
A latticed or woven structure.
* George Bancroft
The interconnection between flanges in structural members, increasing the effective lever arm and so the load capacity of the member.
(rail transport) The thinner vertical section of a railway rail between the top (head) and bottom (foot) of the rail.
A fold of tissue connecting the toes of certain birds, or of other animals.
The series of barbs implanted on each side of the shaft of a feather, whether stiff and united together by barbules, as in ordinary feathers, or soft and separate, as in downy feathers.
(manufacturing) A continuous strip of material carried by rollers during processing.
(lithography) A long sheet of paper which is fed from a roll into a printing press, as opposed to individual sheets of paper.
(dated) A band of webbing used to regulate the extension of the hood of a carriage.
A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.
* Fairfax
# The blade of a sword.
#* Fairfax
# The blade of a saw.
# The thin, sharp part of a colter.
# The bit of a key.
: the World Wide Web.
to construct or form a web
to cover with a web or network
to ensnare or entangle
to provide with a web
As proper nouns the difference between fish and web
is that fish is while web is (possibly|informal|outside|attributive use) the world wide web.fish
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{{ picdic , image=Clupea harengus (Pieni).jpg , detail1= , detail2= }}Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (compare (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m).Noun
- 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.
- 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.
- The seafood pasta had lots of fish but not enough pasta.
- The fish at the lake didn't prove successful.
- Merely two fishes for information told the whole story.
- The second and third fish went to the middle of her long superstructure and under her forward deck.
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, donkDerived 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) seafoodSee also
*Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Verb
(es)- She went to the river to fish for trout.
- They fished the surrounding lakes for the dead body.
- Why are you fishing through my things?
- He was fishing for the keys in his pocket.
- The detective visited the local pubs fishing around for more information.
- The actors loitered at the door, fishing for compliments.
- 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 * angleDerived terms
{{der3, fishable , fisher , fishery , fishline , fishnet/fishnet stockings , fish out}}Etymology 3
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English
(wikipedia web)Noun
(en noun)- The sunlight glistened in the dew on the web .
- the sombre spirit of our forefathers, who wove their web of life with hardly a single thread of rose-colour or gold
- Such has been the perplexing ingenuity of commentators that it is difficult to extricate the truth from the web of conjectures.
- Let me search the web for that.
- He caught the ball in the web .
- The gazebo's roof was a web made of thin strips of wood.
- The colonists were forbidden to manufacture any woollen, or linen, or cotton fabrics; not a web might be woven, not a shuttle thrown, on penalty of exile.
- And Christians slain roll up in webs of lead.
- The sword, whereof the web was steel, / Pommel rich stone, hilt gold.
Derived terms
* cobweb * spiderweb * webbed * webbingProper noun
- I found it on the web .