FISH

noun fish · fishes

1. countable A typically cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills; any vertebrate that is not a tetrapod. Salmon is a fish.
2. countable, uncountable Any vertebrate, including tetrapods.
3. archaic, broadly, countable, uncountable Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water. 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.
4. archaic, broadly, countable, uncountable Now used in combination: (e.g., starfish, cuttlefish, jellyfish, etc).
5. Newfoundland, countable, uncountable Cod; codfish.
6. uncountable The flesh of the fish used as food. The seafood pasta had lots of fish but not enough pasta.
7. countable, uncountable An aquatic or semiaquatic animal suitable for consumption during fasting on Fridays during Lent. Since the semi-aquatic beaver was a skilled swimmer, the Church declared it to be a fish for dietary purposes.
8. 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.
9. countable, slang An easy victim for swindling.
10. countable, slang A bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player).
11. countable A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish, used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.
12. countable, uncountable A purchase used to fish the anchor.
13. countable, slang A torpedo (self-propelled explosive device). The second and third fish went to the middle of her long superstructure and under her forward deck.
14. countable, uncountable The thirty-fourth Lenormand card.
15. derogatory, positive, slang, sometimes, uncountable A (feminine) woman. (See also fishy.)
16. countable, slang, uncountable A new (usually vulnerable) prisoner. When a young male enters the prison system he is looked over and is labeled a FISH.
17. Jamaica, countable, derogatory, offensive, uncountable A male homosexual; a gay man. Him father is a fish so mi know say it's sprat dat
18. countable, uncountable A drag queen or transgender woman who looks like a cisgender woman.
19. countable, rare, uncountable A spaceship.

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noun fishes

1. A period of time spent fishing. The fish at the lake didn't prove successful.
2. An instance of seeking something. Merely two fishes for information told the whole story.

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verb fishes · fishing · fished

1. intransitive, transitive To hunt fish or other aquatic animals in a body of water, or to collect coral or pearls from the bottom of the sea. We went fishing for crabs by the pier.
2. transitive To search (a body of water) for something other than fish. They fished the surrounding lakes for the dead body.
3. transitive To use as bait when fishing. `What you need are frogs,' said the veteran. `Fish them at night. There's nothing like them on big cork floats.'
4. intransitive To (attempt to) find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects. Why are you fishing through my things?
5. intransitive To talk to people in an attempt to get them to say something, or seek to obtain something by artifice. The detective visited the local pubs fishing around for more information.
6. intransitive Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.
7. 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). […] the crew were set to replacing and splicing the rigging and fishing the spars.
8. transitive To hoist the flukes of. Found that the cause of the ship's having drifted on the night of the 19th, was from the bight of the chain span (used to fish the anchor,) having slipped between the shank and upper fluke, thereby preventing the lower fluke from opening […]
9. transitive To draw or guide (a wire or cable) by means of fish tape.

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noun fishes

1. obsolete A counter, used in various games.

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noun

1. abbreviation, acronym, uncountable Acronym of fluorescent in situ hybridization, a molecular cytogenetic technique used to identify whether a DNA sample has a specific sequence.fluorescent in situ hybridization

proper noun Fishes

1. A surname.

proper noun the Fish

1. The constellation and zodiacal sign Pisces. The Fiſh directeth the feet: and theſe three be the ſigns of Winter.