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   Fish

   /fiSH/

   

   noun

   • 1. a limbless cold-blooded vertebrate animal with gills and fins and living wholly in water: "the sea is thick with fish"
   • ▪ the flesh of fish as food: "hot crab appetizers stuffed with fish"
   • ▪ the zodiacal sign or constellation Pisces.
   • ▪ used in names of invertebrate animals living wholly in water, e.g., cuttlefish, shellfish, jellyfish.
   • ▪ a person who is strange in a specified way: "he is generally thought to be a bit of a cold fish"
   • ▪ a torpedo.

   verb

   • 1. catch or try to catch fish, typically by using a net or hook and line: "he was fishing for bluefish" Similar go fishinganglecasttrawl
   • ▪ catch or try to catch fish in (a particular body of water): "they did fish the mountain streams when game grew scarce"
   • ▪ search, typically by groping or feeling for something concealed: "he fished for his registration certificate and held it up to the policeman's flashlight" Similar searchdelvelookhuntcast aroundgropeferret (around)root aroundrummage (around)scrabblefumbleseeklook high and low
   • ▪ try subtly or deviously to elicit a response or some information from someone: "I was not fishing for compliments" Similar try to getseek to obtainsolicitmake a bidangleaimcast aroundhopelookinformal:be after
   • ▪ pull or take something out of water or a container: "the body of a woman had been fished out of the river"

   Word Origin Old Englishfisc (as a noun denoting any animal living exclusively in water), fiscian (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch vis, vissen and German Fisch, fischen.

   Derivatives

   • 1. fishable adjective
   • 2. fishlike adjective

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