fish (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 6 senses of the word *fish / Fish*:
NOUN	animal	fish	any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills
food	fish	the flesh of fish used as food
person	Fish, Pisces	(astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Pisces
location	Fish, Pisces, Pisces the Fishes	the twelfth sign of the zodiac
VERB	contact	fish, angle	seek indirectly
competition	fish	catch or try to catch fish or shellfish

fish / Fish > pronunciation
Sounds	fih'sh
Rhymes	abolish ... Yiddish: 161 rhymes with ihsh...

English > *fish*: 6 senses > noun 1, animal
Meaning	Any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills.
Examples	"the shark is a large fish" "in the living room there was a tank of colorful fish"
Member of	Pisces	A group of vertebrates comprising both cartilaginous and bony fishes and sometimes including the jawless vertebrates
Member of	school, shoal	A large group of fish
Parts	fin	organ of locomotion and balance in fishes and some other aquatic animals
	fish scale	scale of the kind that covers the bodies of fish
	fishbone	A bone of a fish
	lateral line, lateral line organ	sense organs of fish and amphibians
	milt	seminal fluid produced by male fish
	roe	eggs of female fish
	tail fin, caudal fin	The tail of fishes and some other aquatic vertebrates
Narrower	bony fish	Any fish of the class Osteichthyes
	bottom-feeder, bottom-dweller	A fish that lives and feeds on the bottom of a body of water
	bottom lurkers	A fish that lurks on the bottom of a body of water
	cartilaginous fish, chondrichthian	fishes in which the skeleton may be calcified but not ossified
	climbing perch, Anabas testudineus, A. testudineus	A small perch / perch of India whose gills are modified to allow it to breathe air
	fingerling	A young or small fish
	food fish	Any fish used for food by human beings
	game fish, sport fish	Any fish providing sport for the angler
	mouthbreeder	Any of various fishes that carry their eggs and their young in their mouths
	northern snakehead	A voracious freshwater fish that is native to northeastern China
	rough fish	Any fish useless for food or sport or even as bait
	spawner	A female fish at spawning time
	young fish	A fish that is young
Broader	aquatic vertebrate	animal living wholly or chiefly in or on water
Spanish	peces, pescado, pez, pisces
Catalan	peix
Adjectives	fishy	of or relating to or resembling fish
Adjectives	piscine	of or relating to fish
Verbs	fish	catch or try to catch fish or shellfish
Verbs	fish	seek indirectly

English > *fish*: 6 senses > noun 2, food
Meaning	The flesh of fish used as food.
Examples	"in Japan most fish is eaten raw" "after the scare about foot-and-mouth disease a lot of people started eating fish instead of meat" "they have a chef who specializes in fish"
Narrower	alewife	flesh of shad-like fish abundant along the Atlantic coast or in coastal streams
	anchovy	tiny fishes usually canned or salted
	eel	The fatty flesh of eel
	haddock	Lean white flesh of fish similar to but smaller than cod
	hake	The lean flesh of a fish similar to cod
	mullet, grey mullet, gray mullet	Highly valued lean flesh of marine or freshwater mullet
	panfish	Any of numerous small food fishes
	rock salmon	Any of several coarse fishes (such as dogfish or wolffish) when used as food
	salmon	flesh of any of various marine or freshwater fish of the family Salmonidae
	schrod, scrod	flesh of young Atlantic cod weighing up to 2 pounds
	shad	bony flesh of herring-like fish usually caught during their migration to fresh water for spawning
	smelt	small cold-water silvery fish
	stockfish	fish cured by being split and air-dried without salt
	trout	flesh of any of several primarily freshwater game and food fishes
Broader	food, solid food	Any solid substance (as opposed to liquid / liquid) that is used as a source of nourishment
Spanish	pescado, pescar
Catalan	peix, pescar
Verbs	fish	catch or try to catch fish or shellfish

English > *Fish*: 6 senses > noun 3, person
Meaning	(astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Pisces.
Synonym	Pisces
Category	astrology, star divination	A pseudoscience claiming divination by the positions of the planets and sun and moon
Broader	person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul	A human being

English > *Fish*: 6 senses > noun 4, location
Meaning	The twelfth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about February 19 to March 20.
Synonyms	Pisces, Pisces the Fishes
Instance of	sign of the zodiac, star sign, sign, mansion, house, planetary house	(astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided
Spanish	piscis
Catalan	Peixos, peixos, Pisces

English > *fish*: 6 senses > verb 1, contact
Meaning	seek indirectly.
Pattern	Somebody ----s
Example	"fish for compliments"
Synonym	angle
Broader	search, seek, look for	try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of
Spanish	pescar
Nouns	fish	any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills

English > *fish*: 6 senses > verb 2, competition
Meaning	catch or try to catch fish or shellfish.
Pattern	Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s PP
Model	The men fish the area for animals; The men fish for animals in the area
Example	"I like to go fishing on weekends"
Narrower	angle	fish with a hook
	brail	haul fish aboard with brails
	crab	fish for crab
	net fish	fish with nets
	prawn	fish for prawns
	rail	fish with a handline over the rails of a boat
	scallop, scollop	fish for scallops
	seine	fish with a seine
	shark	hunt shark
	shrimp	fish for shrimp
	still-fish	fish with the line and bait resting still or stationary in the water
	trawl	fish with trawlers
Broader	catch, grab, take hold of	take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of
Spanish	faenar, pescar
Catalan	pescar
Nouns	fish	any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills
	fish	the flesh of fish used as food
	fisher	someone whose occupation is catching fish
	fishery	a workplace where fish are caught and processed and sold
	fishing	the act of someone who fishes as a diversion
	fishing	the occupation of catching fish for a living

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