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The definition of fish
17 Definitions of: fish
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- noun, a) any of a large group of cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates having jaws, gills, and usually fins and a skin covered in scales: includes the sharks and rays (class Chondrichthyes: cartilaginous fishes) and the teleosts, lungfish, etc (class Osteichthyes: bony fishes) b) (in combination). Related adjs ichthyic, ichthyoid, piscine
- noun, any of various similar but jawless vertebrates, such as the hagfish and lamprey
- noun, any of various aquatic invertebrates, such as the cuttlefish, jellyfish, and crayfish
- noun, the flesh of fish used as food
- noun, a person of little emotion or intelligence
- noun, short for fishplate
- noun, Also called: tin fish. an informal word for torpedo
- noun, a fine kettle of fish an awkward situation; mess
- noun, drink like a fish to drink (esp alcohol) to excess
- noun, have other fish to fry to have other activities to do, esp more important ones
- noun, like a fish out of water out of one's usual place
- noun, neither fish, flesh, nor fowl neither this nor that
- noun, make fish of one and flesh of another to discriminate unfairly between people
- verb, to attempt to catch fish, as with a line and hook or with nets, traps, etc
- verb, to fish in (a particular area of water)
- verb, to search (a body of water) for something or to search for something, esp in a body of water
- verb, to seek something indirectly ▷ See also fish out
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