fish
IPA: fˈɪʃ
noun
- (countable) A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
- (archaic or loosely) Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water.
- (Newfoundland) Cod; codfish.
- (uncountable) The flesh of the fish used as food.
- (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. Compare shark (a good 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, military, slang) A torpedo (self-propelled explosive device).
- (zoology) A paraphyletic grouping of the following extant taxonomic groups:
- Class Myxini, the hagfish (no vertebrae)
- 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.
- (cartomancy) The thirty-fourth Lenormand card.
- (prison slang) A new (usually vulnerable) prisoner.
- (Jamaica, offensive, derogatory) A male homosexual; a gay man.
- A period of time spent fishing.
- An instance of seeking something.
- (obsolete) A counter, used in various games.
- A surname.
- (genetics) Acronym of fluorescent in situ hybridization: a molecular cytogenetic technique used to identify whether a DNA sample has a specific sequence.
verb
- (intransitive) To hunt fish or other aquatic animals in a body of water.
- (transitive) To search (a body of water) for something other than fish.
- (fishing, transitive) To use as bait when fishing.
- (intransitive) To (attempt to) find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.
- (intransitive, followed by "for" or "around for") To talk to people in an attempt to get them to say something, or seek to obtain something by artifice.
- (intransitive, cricket) Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.
- (nautical, transitive) 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).
- (nautical, transitive) To hoist the flukes of.
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