fish
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noun- 1.
(countable)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.
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.
- 2.
(countable, uncountable)(cladistically) Any vertebrate, including tetrapods.
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(archaic, broadly, countable, uncountable)(archaic or loosely) Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water.
- 4.
(Newfoundland, countable, uncountable)Cod; codfish.
- 5.
(uncountable)The flesh of the fish used as food.
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.
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(countable, uncountable)(Roman Catholicism) An aquatic or semiaquatic animal suitable for consumption during fasting on Fridays during Lent.
- 7.
(uncountable)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.
- 8.
(countable, slang)An easy victim for swindling.
- 9.
(countable, slang)(countable, poker slang) A bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player).
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(countable)(countable, nautical) A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish, used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.
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(countable, uncountable)(nautical) A purchase used to fish the anchor.
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(countable, slang)(countable, nautical, military, slang) A torpedo (self-propelled explosive device).
Động từ
verb- 1.
(intransitive, transitive)To hunt fish or other aquatic animals in a body of water, or to collect coral or pearls from the bottom of the sea.
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.
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(transitive)To search (a body of water) for something other than fish.
They fished the surrounding lakes for the dead body.
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(transitive)(fishing, transitive) To use as bait when fishing.
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(intransitive)To (attempt to) find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.
Why are you fishing through my things?
He was fishing for the keys in his pocket.
Đồng nghĩa: rummage
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(intransitive)(intransitive, followed by "for" or "around for") To talk to people in an attempt to get them to say something, or seek to obtain something by artifice.
The detective visited the local pubs fishing around for more information.
The actors loitered at the door, fishing for compliments.
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(intransitive)(intransitive, cricket) Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.
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(transitive)(nautical, transitive) 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).
- 8.
(transitive)(nautical, transitive) To hoist the flukes of.
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(transitive)To draw or guide (a wire or cable) by means of fish tape.
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ine péysks From Middle English fisch, from Old English fisċ (fish), from *fisk, from Proto-Germanic *fiskaz (fish), from Proto-Indo-European *piskós (fish). 2 cog Cognate with wish fish, fasch, fask, Fesk (fish), Fisk fish, fisk fish, biss, visch, viss (fish), vis fish, visch fish, Fisch fish, Fösch fish, Fësch fish, fish, fisk, fiskur fish, 𐍆𐌹𐍃𐌺𐍃 fish, fisct fish.