fish
鱼,鱼类,鱼儿,鱼鱼
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Definitions
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plural fish, fish·es.
- : any of various cold-blooded, aquatic vertebrates, having gills, commonly fins, and typically an elongated body covered with scales.
- : any of various other aquatic animals.
- : the flesh of fishes used as food.
- : Fishes, Astronomy, Astrology. the constellation or sign of Pisces.
- : Informal. a person: an odd fish; a poor fish.
- : a long strip of wood, iron, etc., used to strengthen a mast, joint, etc.
- : Cards Slang. an incompetent player whose incompetence can be exploited.
- : Slang. a dollar: He sold the car for 500 fish.
- : Slang. a new prison inmate.a high school or college freshman; frosh.
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- : to catch or attempt to catch.
- : to try to catch fish in: Let's fish the creek.
- : to draw, as by fishing: He fished a coin out of his pocket for the boy.
- : to search through, as by fishing.
- : Nautical. to secure by raising the flukes.to reinforce by fastening a spar, batten, metal bar, or the like, lengthwise over a weak place.
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- : to catch or attempt to catch fish, as by angling or drawing a net.
- : to search carefully: He fished through all his pockets but his wallet was gone.
- : to seek to obtain something indirectly or by artifice: to fish for compliments; to fish for information.
- : to search for or attempt to catch onto something under water, in mud, etc., by the use of a dredge, rake, hook, or the like.
- : to attempt to recover detached tools or other loose objects from an oil or gas well.
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- : fish out, to deplete of fish by fishing.
Phrases
- fish for
- fishing expedition
- fish in troubled waters
- fish or cut bait
- fish out
- fish out of water, a
- fish story
- big fish in a small pond
- cold fish
- drink like a fish
- goldfish bowl
- kettle of fish
- like shooting fish in a barrel
- neither fish nor fowl
- not the only fish in the sea
- other fish to fry
- smell fishy
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
On March 20, 2019, fish caught in Ohio’s Cuyahoga River were declared safe to eat by federal environmental regulators.
The new work provides important context for data being collected on fish stocks.
Sims and Berni wonder how these ideas might be explored in vertebrates like mice and zebra fish.
For example, fishes who start living and evolving in unlit caves often lose their eyes, because the costs of developing them outweigh their advantages.
This makes the online world an exceptionally volatile environment, where big fishes swallow the small ones.
When Chérif got out of prison, he worked at the fish counter of a supermarket.
“The government just wanted to catch the big fish [in the Juarez cartel] and they ignored everything in between,” Lozoya said.
Kocurek documented the scene with notes and diagrams, and called the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
A U.S. Fish and Wildlife officer corroborated another account.
A Fish and Wildlife special agent collected the bodies of two birds at the site, a redhead duck and a mourning dove.
He must be The saltest fish that swims the sea.And, oh!He has a secret woe!
He looked up from his fish and replied, somewhat cuttingly, "By contesting a borough and getting elected."
Smoking, the angry and fuming king protests, had made our manners as rude as those of the fish-wives of Dieppe.
But what if I catch the fish by using a hired boat and a hired net, or by buying worms as bait from some one who has dug them?
The Taube has been bothering us again, but wound up its manœuvres very decently by killing some fish for our dinner.