Definitions from Wiktionary (FISH)
▸ noun: (countable) A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
▸ noun: (archaic or loosely) Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water.
▸ noun: (Newfoundland) Cod; codfish.
▸ noun: (uncountable) The flesh of the fish used as food.
▸ noun: (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.
▸ noun: (uncountable, derogatory, slang) A woman.
▸ noun: (countable, slang) An easy victim for swindling.
▸ noun: (countable, poker slang) A bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player).
▸ noun: (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.
▸ noun: (nautical) A purchase used to fish the anchor.
▸ noun: (countable, nautical, military, slang) A torpedo (self-propelled explosive device).
▸ noun: (zoology) A paraphyletic grouping of the following extant taxonomic groups:
▸ noun: Class Myxini, the hagfish (no vertebrae)
▸ noun: Class Petromyzontida, the lampreys (no jaw)
▸ noun: Within infraphylum Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates (also including Tetrapoda))
▸ noun: Class Chondrichthyes, cartilaginous fish such as sharks and rays
▸ noun: Superclass Osteichthyes, bony fish.
▸ noun: (cartomancy) The thirty-fourth Lenormand card.
▸ noun: (prison slang) A new (usually vulnerable) prisoner.
▸ noun: (Jamaica, offensive, derogatory) A male homosexual; a gay man.
▸ noun: A period of time spent fishing.
▸ noun: An instance of seeking something.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To hunt fish or other aquatic animals in a body of water.
▸ verb: (transitive) To search (a body of water) for something other than fish.
▸ verb: (fishing, transitive) To use as bait when fishing.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To (attempt to) find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.
▸ verb: (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.
▸ verb: (intransitive, cricket) Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.
▸ verb: (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).
▸ verb: (nautical, transitive) To hoist the flukes of.
▸ noun: (obsolete) A counter, used in various games.
▸ noun: A surname.
▸ noun: (genetics) Acronym of fluorescent in situ hybridization: a molecular cytogenetic technique used to identify whether a DNA sample has a specific sequence.
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▸ noun: (countable) A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
▸ noun: (archaic or loosely) Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water.
▸ noun: (Newfoundland) Cod; codfish.
▸ noun: (uncountable) The flesh of the fish used as food.
▸ noun: (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.
▸ noun: (uncountable, derogatory, slang) A woman.
▸ noun: (countable, slang) An easy victim for swindling.
▸ noun: (countable, poker slang) A bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player).
▸ noun: (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.
▸ noun: (nautical) A purchase used to fish the anchor.
▸ noun: (countable, nautical, military, slang) A torpedo (self-propelled explosive device).
▸ noun: (zoology) A paraphyletic grouping of the following extant taxonomic groups:
▸ noun: Class Myxini, the hagfish (no vertebrae)
▸ noun: Class Petromyzontida, the lampreys (no jaw)
▸ noun: Within infraphylum Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates (also including Tetrapoda))
▸ noun: Class Chondrichthyes, cartilaginous fish such as sharks and rays
▸ noun: Superclass Osteichthyes, bony fish.
▸ noun: (cartomancy) The thirty-fourth Lenormand card.
▸ noun: (prison slang) A new (usually vulnerable) prisoner.
▸ noun: (Jamaica, offensive, derogatory) A male homosexual; a gay man.
▸ noun: A period of time spent fishing.
▸ noun: An instance of seeking something.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To hunt fish or other aquatic animals in a body of water.
▸ verb: (transitive) To search (a body of water) for something other than fish.
▸ verb: (fishing, transitive) To use as bait when fishing.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To (attempt to) find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.
▸ verb: (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.
▸ verb: (intransitive, cricket) Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.
▸ verb: (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).
▸ verb: (nautical, transitive) To hoist the flukes of.
▸ noun: (obsolete) A counter, used in various games.
▸ noun: A surname.
▸ noun: (genetics) Acronym of fluorescent in situ hybridization: a molecular cytogenetic technique used to identify whether a DNA sample has a specific sequence.
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