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(uncountable) A sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets.
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=, title=“Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=3/19/2
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(British) A soft drink made from a fruit-based concentrate diluted with water.
A place or a situation where people have limited space to move.
(obsolete, countable) Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of peas.
(obsolete, countable, pejorative) Something unripe or soft.
(obsolete, countable) A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies.
To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.
(intransitive) To compress or restrict (oneself) into a small space; to squeeze.
(countable) A plant and its fruit of five species of the genus Cucurbita , or gourd kind.
# Cucurbita maxima , including , and some varieties of pumpkins.
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# Cucurbita moschata , butternut squash, .
# Cucurbita pepo , most pumpkins, acorn squash, summer squash, zucchini.
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The edible or decorative fruit of these plants, or this fruit prepared as a dish.
(obsolete, zoo, countable) Muskrat.
* Dampier
(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:
As a noun squash
is (uncountable) a sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets or squash can be (countable) a plant and its fruit of five species of the genus cucurbita , or gourd kind or squash can be (obsolete|zoo|countable) muskrat.As a verb squash
is to beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.As a proper noun fish is
.squash
English
(wikipedia squash)Etymology 1
From (etyl) squachen, from (etyl) esquasser, + .Noun
(wikipedia squash)citation
- When I'm thirsty I drink squash ; it tastes much nicer than plain water.
- It's a bit of a squash in this small room.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "squash")Derived terms
* squashable * squash ball * squash court * squash player * squash racketSee also
* racketballVerb
(es)- Somehow, she squashed all her books into her backpack, which was now too heavy to carry.
- We all managed to squash into Mum's tiny car.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "squash")Derived terms
* squash up * squashy * squishEtymology 2
Shortening of askutasquash , (etyl) ("[a vegetable] eaten green (or raw)"). (Cucurbita)Noun
- We ate squash and green beans.
Derived terms
* ) * (Coreidae) * opo squash (Lagenaria spp. ) * winter squash * summer squashEtymology 3
shortening of musquashNoun
(es)- The squash is a four-footed beast, bigger than a cat.
fish
English
{{ 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
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* (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.