FISH
\fˈɪʃ], \fˈɪʃ], \f_ˈɪ_ʃ]\
Definitions of FISH
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills; "the shark is a large fish"; "in the livingroom there was a tank of colorful fish"
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the flesh of fish used as food; "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"
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the twelfth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about February 19 to March 20
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(astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Pisces
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catch or try to catch fish or shellfish; "I like to go fishing on weekends"
By Princeton University
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any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills; "the shark is a large fish"; "in the livingroom there was a tank of colorful fish"
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the flesh of fish used as food; "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"
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the twelfth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about February 19 to March 20
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(astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Pisces
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catch or try to catch fish or shellfish; "I like to go fishing on weekends"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A counter, used in various games.
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A name loosely applied in popular usage to many animals of diverse characteristics, living in the water.
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An oviparous, vertebrate animal usually having fins and a covering scales or plates. It breathes by means of gills, and lives almost entirely in the water. See Pisces.
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The twelfth sign of the zodiac; Pisces.
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The flesh of fish, used as food.
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A purchase used to fish the anchor.
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A piece of timber, somewhat in the form of a fish, used to strengthen a mast or yard.
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To attempt to catch fish; to be employed in taking fish, by any means, as by angling or drawing a net.
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To seek to obtain by artifice, or indirectly to seek to draw forth; as, to fish for compliments.
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To catch; to draw out or up; as, to fish up an anchor.
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To search by raking or sweeping.
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To try with a fishing rod; to catch fish in; as, to fish a stream.
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To strengthen (a beam, mast, etc.), or unite end to end (two timbers, railroad rails, etc.) by bolting a plank, timber, or plate to the beam, mast, or timbers, lengthwise on one or both sides. See Fish joint, under Fish, n.
By Oddity Software
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A counter, used in various games.
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A name loosely applied in popular usage to many animals of diverse characteristics, living in the water.
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An oviparous, vertebrate animal usually having fins and a covering scales or plates. It breathes by means of gills, and lives almost entirely in the water. See Pisces.
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The twelfth sign of the zodiac; Pisces.
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The flesh of fish, used as food.
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A purchase used to fish the anchor.
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A piece of timber, somewhat in the form of a fish, used to strengthen a mast or yard.
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To attempt to catch fish; to be employed in taking fish, by any means, as by angling or drawing a net.
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To seek to obtain by artifice, or indirectly to seek to draw forth; as, to fish for compliments.
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To catch; to draw out or up; as, to fish up an anchor.
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To search by raking or sweeping.
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To try with a fishing rod; to catch fish in; as, to fish a stream.
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To strengthen (a beam, mast, etc.), or unite end to end (two timbers, railroad rails, etc.) by bolting a plank, timber, or plate to the beam, mast, or timbers, lengthwise on one or both sides. See joint, under Fish, n.
By Noah Webster.
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A scaly animal living in water, breathing through gills instead of lungs; the flesh of fish used as food.
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To search in quest of fish; catch (fish); seek for and bring to light; draw up.
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To try to catch fish; seek to gain something by indirect methods.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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An animal that lives in water, and breathes through gills; the flesh of fish; -pl. FISH or FISHES.
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To search for fish; to search by sweeping; to draw out or up; to seek to obtain by artifice.
By Daniel Lyons
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An animal living in the water and breathing by gills.
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To catch, or try to catch, fish; try to obtain by artifice.
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To search for fish, or as for fish; to draw out.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To catch or try to catch, fish in (a stream or the like).
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To catch, as fish, in or under water; search for and bring to light; often with up or out.
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To catch, or try to catch, fish; be employed in catching fish.
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A vertebrate animal with permanent gills, adapted to live under water.
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Loosely, any animal habitually living in the water.
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. [Anglo-Saxon, Gothic, German, Latin] An animal that lives in water;—an oviparous, vertebrate animal, having a covering of scales or plates, and breathing by means of gills or branchiae, and living almost entirely in the water;—the flesh of fish, used as food.
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n. [French] A counter or marker at cards;—a piece of timber used to strengthen a mast or spar when sprung;—a machine for hoisting the flukes of the anchor to the bow.
