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• WordNet 3.6
  • v fish catch or try to catch fish or shellfish "I like to go fishing on weekends"
  • v fish seek indirectly "fish for compliments"
  • n fish any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills "the shark is a large fish","in the living room there was a tank of colorful fish"
  • n fish 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"
  • n Fish the twelfth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about February 19 to March 20
  • n Fish (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Pisces
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3 Fished and keyed

A boy and a girl fishing

A Chinese man fishing with birds

The boys in the pond, fishing with rods

Cartoon fish

Man selling fish to lady

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• Interesting fact: Ninety-five percent of tropical fish sold in North America originate from Florida
• • n Fish fĭsh A counter, used in various games.
  • Fish A name loosely applied in popular usage to many animals of diverse characteristics, living in the water.
  • Fish (Naut) A piece of timber, somewhat in the form of a fish, used to strengthen a mast or yard.
  • Fish (Naut) A purchase used to fish the anchor.
  • Fish (Zoöl) 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.
  • Fish The flesh of fish, used as food.
  • Fish The twelfth sign of the zodiac; Pisces.
  • Fish To attempt to catch fish; to be employed in taking fish, by any means, as by angling or drawing a net.
  • Fish To catch; to draw out or up; as, to fish up an anchor.
  • Fish To search by raking or sweeping.
  • Fish To seek to obtain by artifice, or indirectly to seek to draw forth; as, to fish for compliments. "Any other fishing question."
  • Fish 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.
  • Fish To try with a fishing rod; to catch fish in; as, to fish a stream.
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• Interesting fact: The list of ingredients that make up lipstick include fish scales
• • n fish A vertebrate which has gills and fins adapting it for living in the water. In this sense the word has been and is still largely used as the equivalent of the former extensive class Pisces, including the leptocardians, myzonts, and selachians, as well as true Pisces. But the differences between these several types of structure are so great that the leptocardians and myzonts have been each contrasted with all remaining vertebrates.
  • n fish In zoology: Any branchiferous vertebrate with a complete cranium and a lyriform shoulder-girdle. In this sense, the leptocardians and myzonts are excluded, but the selachians are included with true Pisces.
  • n fish A branchiferous or teleostomous vertebrate with dermal plates or membrane-bones superadded to the primordial cranium and shoulder-girdle, and with the branchiæ free outwardly. The sturgeons as well as all the osseous fishes are included in the group thus defined.
  • n fish In popular language, any animal that lives entirely in the water; a swimming as distinguished from a flying or walking animal, including cetaceous mammals, batrachians, mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms, as well as fishes proper: commonly distinguished by some specifying word, as blackfish, shellfish, starfish. See these and other compounds.
  • n fish The meat of a fish or of fishes used as food.
  • n fish The codfish: so called specifically by Cape Cod and Cape Ann fishermen, in distinction from fish of other kinds, as mackerel, herring, etc.
  • n fish The zodiacal sign Pisces.
  • n fish Nautical: A purchase used to raise the flukes of an anchor up to the bill-board. Also called a fish-tackle.
  • n fish A long piece of timber or iron used to strengthen a mast or a yard when sprung.
  • n fish In joinery, etc., a piece secured alongside of another to strengthen or stiffen it.
  • n fish Fish that are or may be caught with bait.
  • n fish Fish having a more or less ossified skeleton: thus distinguished from cartilaginous fish. See cut under Esox.
  • n fish See coarse fish.
  • n fish In ichthyology, a fish inhabiting the sea near the shore and in water of moderate depth: thus contrasting with deep-sea fish and pelagic fish.
  • n fish The squid or cuttlefish.
  • n fish See also whitefish.
  • fish To catch or attempt to catch fish; be employed in taking fish by any means, as by angling or drawing nets.
  • fish To be arranged or adjusted so as to catch fish; bo capable of catching fish: as, the net or pound is fishing; the net was set, but was not fishing; the net fishes seven feet (that is, seven feet deep).
  • fish To catch by means of any of the operations or processes of fishing: as, to fish minnows or lobsters.
  • fish To attempt to catch fish in; try with any apparatus for catching fish, as a rod or net.
  • fish To use in or for fishing: as, gill-nets are fished; an oysterman fishes his boat.
  • fish To catch or lay hold of, in water, mud, or some analogous medium or position, as if by fishing; draw out or up; get or secure in any way with some difficulty or search, as if by angling.
  • fish To search by dragging, raking, or sweeping.
  • fish Nautical: To strengthen, as a weak spar, by lashing one or more pieces of wood or iron along the weak place.
  • fish To hoist the flukes of, as an anchor, up to the bill-board.
  • fish In joinery, to strengthen, as a piece of wood, by fastening another piece above or below it, and sometimes both.
  • fish In railroading, to splice, as rails, with a fish-joint.
  • fish To obtain by careful search or study or by artifice; elicit by pains or stratagem: as, to fish out a meaning from an obscure sentence, a secret from a person, or an admission from an adverse witness.
  • fish To pull up or out from or as from some deep place, as if by fishing: as, the boy fished out a top from the depths of his pocket.
  • n fish A counter used in various games.
  • n fish The Southern Fish, Piscis Australis or Austrinus.
  • n fish A name sometimes applied to fishes having ocellated spots of color resembling auxiliary eyes.
  • n fish Chænobryttus gulosus, one of the sun-fishes found in fresh waters of the eastern United States.
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• Interesting fact: Lake Malawi has the largest number of fish species in the world
• • n Fish fish a vertebrate that lives in water, and breathes through gills: the flesh of fish: a piece of wood fixed alongside another for strengthening
  • v.t Fish to search for fish: to search by sweeping: to draw out or up:
  • n Fish the art or practice of catching fish
  • v.t Fish (naut.) to strengthen, as a weak spar: to hoist the flukes of: to seek to obtain by artifice
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• Tom Brokaw

  

  “If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.”
• Ernest Hemingway

  

  “Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.”
• John Ruskin

  

  “No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.”
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  “When a flirt fishes for a man, she fishes merely for the sport.”
• Eric Butterworth

  

  “The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.”
• Danish Proverb

  

  “Fish and guests smell at three days old.”

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