fish
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English fisch, from Old English fisċ (“fish”), from Proto-West Germanic *fisk, from Proto-Germanic *fiskaz (“fish”), from Proto-Indo-European *peysk- (“fish”).
Cognates
Cognate with Yola wish (“fish”), North Frisian fasch, fask, Fesk (“fish”), Saterland Frisian Fisk (“fish”), West Frisian fisk (“fish”), Cimbrian biss, visch, viss (“fish”), Dutch vis (“fish”), Dutch Low Saxon and Mòcheno visch (“fish”), German Fisch (“fish”), German Low German Fösch (“fish”), Luxembourgish Fësch (“fish”), Yiddish פֿיש (fish, “fish”), Danish, Elfdalian, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish fisk (“fish”), Faroese and Icelandic fiskur (“fish”), Gothic 𐍆𐌹𐍃𐌺𐍃 (fisks, “fish”), Crimean Gothic fisct (“fish”). Compare Irish iasc (“fish”), Latin piscis (“fish”).
Inflected forms:
form: fish
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fishes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fishes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fishing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fished
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fished
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A typically cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gill; any vertebrate that is not a tetrapod.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Salmon is a fish.
The fishmonger sells fishes from all over the world.
Ichthyologists study the fish of the world.
We have many fish in our aquarium.
gloss: Any vertebrate, including tetrapods.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
broadly
countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
Be it known that, waiving all argument, I take the good old fashioned ground that the whale is a fish, and call upon holy Jonah to back me.
gloss: Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
broadly
countable
uncountable
gloss: Cod; codfish.
pos: noun
tags: Newfoundland
countable
uncountable
gloss: The flesh of the fish used as food.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The seafood pasta had lots of fish but not enough pasta.
Though Lena is a vegetarian, she doesn't have any problem with eating fish.
Include low-mercury fish in your diet (such as salmon) and eat at least five servings a day of fruit and vegetables, especially dark leafy greens, broccoli, and cauliflower. Avoid saturated and trans fats, which may hasten brain aging.
gloss: An aquatic or semiaquatic animal suitable for consumption during fasting on Fridays during Lent.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Since the semi-aquatic beaver was a skilled swimmer, the Church declared it to be a fish for dietary purposes.
Throughout the Catholic Church's long history, archbishops and other prominent church leaders have made numerous declarations about which animals can be considered "fish for the purposes of Lent, even if those animals have virtually no similarities to fish in a scientific sense.
During the 17th and 18th centuries, Catholics around the world began to liberally interpret "fish" as any aquatic-based creature, despite blood temperature, and created local meat exceptions that remain in place today.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: An easy victim for swindling.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
gloss: A bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player).
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
gloss: A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish, used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A purchase used to fish the anchor.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: a wrestler who seldom wins and seldom losing by being pinned.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
examples: The second and third fish went to the middle of her long superstructure and under her forward deck.
As we came off patrol we had some torpedoes fired at us by an enemy submarine but we dived out of the way. About April 10 we fired our fish in two salvoes at a convoy.
gloss: a wrestler who seldom wins and seldom losing by being pinned.
 (countable, nautical, military, slang) A torpedo (self-propelled explosive device).
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
gloss: The thirty-fourth Lenormand card.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A (feminine) woman. (See also fishy.)
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
positive
slang
sometimes
uncountable
gloss: A new (usually vulnerable) prisoner.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
examples: When a young male enters the prison system he is looked over and is labeled a FISH.
gloss: A male homosexual; a gay man.
pos: noun
tags: Jamaica
countable
derogatory
offensive
uncountable
examples: Him father is a fish so mi know say it's sprat dat
Bere gunman deh ya we nuh fren fish (hey bwoy)
gloss: A drag queen or transgender woman who looks like a cisgender woman.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A spaceship.
pos: noun
tags: countable
rare
uncountable
gloss: To hunt fish or other aquatic animals in a body of water, or to collect coral or pearls from the bottom of the sea.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: We went fishing for crabs by the pier.
She went to the river to fish for trout.
19th c., anonymous, "The Bonny Ship the 'Diamond'"
It's cheer up, my lads, let your hearts never fail,
For the bonny ship the Diamond goes a-fishing for the whale.
Thou hast fished salmon a thousand times, and mightst have taken a lesson.
gloss: To search (a body of water) for something other than fish.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: They fished the surrounding lakes for the dead body.
gloss: To use as bait when fishing.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: `What you need are frogs,' said the veteran. `Fish them at night. There's nothing like them on big cork floats.'
gloss: To (attempt to) find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Why are you fishing through my things?
He was fishing for the keys in his pocket.
gloss: To talk to people in an attempt to get them to say something, or seek to obtain something by artifice.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The detective visited the local pubs fishing around for more information.
The actors loitered at the door, fishing for compliments.
Laoctonos is fishing for a compliment,
But ’tis his due. Yes, you have drunk more wine,
And shed more blood, than any man in Thebes.
gloss: Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: 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).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: […] the crew were set to replacing and splicing the rigging and fishing the spars.
gloss: To hoist the flukes of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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 […]
gloss: To draw or guide (a wire or cable) by means of fish tape.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Synonyms: fish
angle
Related words: fishly
piscine
fishy
piscifauna
piscicolous
fishlore
piscatology
Actinopterygii
bony fish, cartilaginous fish
finned fish
finfish
Osteichthyes
Sarcopterygii
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List of fish by common name on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
fisher
piscivore
piscose
fishlike
fish-skin disease
fishdom
fishhood
piscinity
fishiness
Derived words: alligatorfish
all's fish that comes to the net
all is fish that comes to the net
amberfish
anemonefish
anemone fish
angelfish
anglerfish
antifish
archerfish
assfish
a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle
a woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle
baitfish
balloonfish
bandfish
bannerfish
barberfish
barfish
barrelfish
batfish
beakfish
beardfish
bellowfish
bellowsfish
beltfish
big fish
big fish eat little fish
big fish in a little pond
big fish in a small pond
big-fish-little-pond effect
bigger fish in the sea
bigger fish to fry
billfish
blackfish
blindfish
blobfish
boarfish
bonefish
bottlefish
boxfish
broodfish
bumperfish
burfish
burrfish
butterfish
butterflyfish
candlefish
cardinalfish
catfish
cavefish
clingfish
clownfish
coalfish
cobblerfish
cockfish
cofferfish
cold fish
combfish
coralfish
cornetfish
cowfish
crabfish
crampfish
creekfish
crestfish
crooked as a barrel of fish hooks
crossfish
cry stinking fish
cucumberfish
cutlassfish
cutlass fish
cuttlefish
damselfish
dartfish
dead fish
defish
dither fish
doctorfish
dollarfish
dolphinfish
doomsday fish
dreamfish
dried-fish woman
driftfish
drink like a fish
drumfish
dull fish
dumb as a fish
dunfish
electrofish
elephantfish
filefish
firefish
fishability
fish acute toxicity syndrome
fish and brewis
fish-and-chipper
fish and chippery
fish and chips
fish 'n' chips
fish and company stink after three days
fishapod
fishbait
fishball
fish ball
fish-ball
fish-basket
fish beam
fish-bellied
fishbelly
fish belly girder
fishberry
fish-blooded
fishboat
fish boil
fishbolt
fishbone
fishborne
fishbowl
fish bowl
fish-brain
fish-brained
fishburger
fish cage
fishcake
fish-cake
fish cake
fish camp
fishcamp
fishcatcher
fish coop
fish cop
fish corral
fish crow
fishculture
fish duck
fish eagle
fish-eating
fish-eating crocodile
fish-eating grin
fish-eating rat
fishen
fisher cat
fisherman
fishetarian
fisheye
fish eye
fish-eyed
fish-eye lens
fish-fag
fishfag
fish farm
fish farmer
fish farming
fish feed
fish-filled
fishfinder
fishfinding
fish finger
fishfly
fish food
fish fork
fish fry
fishful
fish fur
fish garth
fishgarth
fishgig
fish gig
fish glue
fish-handler's disease
fish-hawk
fish hawk
fishhawk
fishhead
fish-head
fish head
fishhook
fish hook
fish-hook theory
fish-horn
fish horn
fish-house
fish house
fishhouse
fish hurricane
fishie
fishify
fish in troubled waters
fishish
fishjoint
fishkeeper
fishkeeping
fish kettle
fishkill
fish kill
fishkind
fish-knife
fish knife
fish kropeck
fish ladder
Fish Lake
fishless
fishlet
fishlife
fishlike
fishling
fish lips
fish louse
fishlouse
fishly
fish malodor syndrome
fishman
fishmarket
fishmeal
fish meal
fishmonger
fish-mongress
fish mongress
fish moon
fishmoth
fishmouth
fisho
fish odor syndrome
fish oil
fish or cut bait
fish-out-of-water
fish out of water
fish owl
fish paper
fish pass
fishpaste
fish paste
fish pedicure
fishplate
Fish Point
fish poison tree
fish pole
fishpole
fishpond
fish-pond
fish pond
fishpool
fishpot
fish pot
fishpound
fish pound
fishpox
fishroom
fish sauce
fishscale
fish-scale
fish scale
fish science
fish sciences
fish scrap
fishseller
fish shambles
fishsicle
fish skin
fishskin
fishskin disease
Fish-skin Tartar
fish slice
fishspear
fish steps
fish stick
fish stock
fish storm
fish story
fish strainer
fish supper
fishtail
fish-tail
fish tail
fish tale
fishtank
fish tank
fish tape
Fishtar
fish tea
fish therapy
fish to fry
fish-trap
fish trap
fish trowel
fish warden
fish water
fishway
fishweir
fish wheel
fishwich
fishwife
fishwoman
fishworker
fishworks
fishworm
fishwort
fish wrap
fish-wrap
fish wrapper
fishy
fishyback
flagfish
flatfish
flyfish
fly-fish
footballfish
foxfish
Frankenfish
frogfish
frostfish
gamefish
garfish
gemfish
ghostfish
give a man a fish
give a man a fish and you feed him for a day
teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime
glassfish
globefish
go fish
goosefish
greenfish
groundfish
ground fish
guardfish
guitarfish
gunnel fish
haaf fish
hagfish
hairyfish
hammerfish
handfish
harvestfish
hatchetfish
hatfish
have other fish to fry
headfish
henfish
hogfish
horsefish
houndfish
ice fish
icefish
I don't eat fish
inkfish
jackfish
janitor fish
jawfish
jellyfish
jelly-fish
jelly fish
jewelfish
jugfish
kelpfish
kettle of fish
kingfish
knifefish
ladyfish
lancefish
lancetfish
lanternfish
leaffish
lemonfish
like shooting fish in a barrel
line fisher
line fishing
lionfish
lizardfish
loose fish
lungfish
lutefish
mad as a fish
make fish of one and flesh of another
make fish of one and fowl of another
marblefish
mayfish
medusafish
megafish
milkfish
mock fish
moonfish
more important fish to fry
mosquitofish
mosquito fish
mousefish
mudfish
muttonfish
needlefish
neither fish, flesh, nor fowl
neither fish, flesh, nor good red herring
neither fish nor flesh, nor good red herring
neither fish nor flesh
neither fish nor fowl
nonfish
noodlefish
numbfish
nurseryfish
oarfish
odd fish
oilfish
one man's fish is another man's poison
one man's fish is another man's poisson
only dead fish go with the flow
other fish in the sea
outfish
overfish
oysterfish
paddlefish
paleofish
panfish
pan fish
paradisefish
parrotfish
pearlfish
penfish
pigfish
pinfish
pipefish
platyfish
plunderfish
pondfish
poolfish
porcupinefish
pricklefish
pufferfish
puff-fish
pupfish
purple-fish
queenfish
queer fish
quillfish
rabbitfish
ragfish
rainbowfish
ratfish
razorfish
redfish
reedfish
reef fish
ribbonfish
ricefish
robofish
rockfish
roosterfish
ropefish
roundfish
rudderfish
sablefish
sabrefish
salamanderfish
saltfish
sandfish
sawfish
scabbardfish
scabbard fish
scalefish
scorpionfish
sergeant fish
sheathfish
shellfish
shorefish
shovelfish
shrimpfish
silver dollar fish
silverfish
skatefish
skyfish
sleep with the fishes
snailfish
snakefish
snipefish
soapfish
soldierfish
so long, and thanks for all the fish
soup and fish
soup-and-fish
soup-and-fish suit
spadefish
spearfish
spikefish
spookfish
sportfish
spoutfish
squawfish
squirefish
squirrelfish
squirrel fish
starfish
steakfish
stingfish
stockfish
stonefish
strange fish
studfish
suckerfish
suckfish
sunfish
swallowfish
swellfish
swim like a fish
swordfish
telescopefish
the cat would eat fish but would not wet her feet
the fish rots from the head
there are plenty more fish in the sea
there are plenty of fish in the sea
there's always a bigger fish
there's plenty more fish in the sea
thornfish
threadfish
Threefish
tigerfish
tilefish
tinfish
tin fish
toadfish
tofish
tonguefish
toothfish
torrentfish
towfish
treefish
triggerfish
trumpetfish
trunkfish
tunnyfish
turbofish
turkeyfish
underfish
unfishiness
unfishy
unicornfish
velvetfish
victor fish
viperfish
wallfish
weakfish
weatherfish
wedgefish
weedfish
weeverfish
whalefish
what does that have to do with the price of fish
whistlefish
whitefish
wingfish
wolffish
wooden fish
wormfish
wreckfish
yellowfish
yellowtail reef fish
zebrafish
fisher
don't fish off the company dock
fishable
fish down
fished out
fishery
fish for compliments
fishline
fishnet
fishnet stockings
fish one's wish
fish out
fish up
underfished
unfished
you don't fish off the company pier
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: سَمَك
roman: samak
lang: Arabic
word: سمك
roman: samak
lang: Armenian
word: ձկներ
roman: jkner
lang: Bulgarian
word: ри́би
roman: ríbi
lang: Chinese
word: 魚 /鱼
roman: hî/hû/gû
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 魚 /鱼
roman: yú
lang: Danish
word: fisk
lang: Finnish
word: kala
lang: French
word: poisson
lang: French
word: poissons
lang: Fula
word: liɗɗi
lang: Fula
word: liƴƴi
lang: Galician
word: peixes
lang: Greek
word: ψάρια
roman: psária
lang: Ido
word: fisharo
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Fesch (nds)
lang: Portuguese
word: peixes
lang: Portuguese
word: cardume
lang: Russian
word: ры́ба
roman: rýba
lang: Russian
word: ры́бы
roman: rýby
lang: Slovak
word: ryby
lang: Swahili
word: samaki
lang: Swedish
word: fiskar
lang: Turkish
word: balıklar
lang: Ukrainian
word: ри́би
roman: rýby
lang: Venetan
word: pési
lang: Volapük
word: fitem
lang: Welsh
word: pysgod
lang: Bulgarian
word: риболо́в
roman: ribolóv
lang: Finnish
word: kalastus
lang: Finnish
word: kala
lang: French
word: pêche
lang: German
word: Fischzug
lang: Greek
word: ψάρεμα
roman: psárema
lang: Hungarian
word: halászat
lang: Hungarian
word: halászás
lang: Italian
word: pesca
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: masîgirî
lang: Polish
word: łowienie ryb
lang: Portuguese
word: pesca
lang: Portuguese
word: pescaria
lang: Romanian
word: pescuit
lang: Romanian
word: pescuire
lang: Russian
word: рыба́лка
roman: rybálka
lang: Russian
word: ры́бная ло́вля
roman: rýbnaja lóvlja
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ри̏боло̄в
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: rȉbolōv
lang: Slovak
word: rybačka
lang: Slovak
word: rybárčenie
lang: Slovak
word: rybárstvo
lang: Slovak
word: rybolov
lang: Spanish
word: pesca
lang: Swahili
word: samaki
lang: Swedish
word: fiske
lang: Venetan
word: pesca
lang: Finnish
word: kalastella
lang: Finnish
word: kerjätä
lang: Finnish
word: vongata
lang: Russian
word: выла́вливать
roman: vylávlivatʹ
lang: Russian
word: вы́ловить
roman: výlovitʹ