FISH

Fish

A fish is any member of a paraphyletic group of organisms that consist of all gill-bearing aquatic craniate animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish, as well as various extinct related groups. Most fish are ectothermic, allowing their body temperatures to vary as ambient temperatures change, though some of the large active swimmers like white shark and tuna can hold a higher core temperature. Fish are abundant in most bodies of water. They can be found in nearly all aquatic environments, from high mountain streams to the abyssal and even hadal depths of the deepest oceans .

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fish

Noun

  1. A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
    Salmon is a fish.
    God created all the fishes of the world.
    God created all the fish of the world.
    We have many fish in our aquarium.
  2. Any animal that lives exclusively in water.
  3. The flesh of the fish used as food.
    The seafood pasta had lots of fish but not enough pasta.
  4. A period of time spent fishing.
    The fish at the lake didn't prove successful.
  5. An instance of seeking something.
    Merely two fishes for information told the whole story.
  6. A card game in which the object is to obtain pairs of cards.
  7. A woman.
  8. An easy victim for swindling.
  9. A bad poker player.
  10. A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish, used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.
  11. A purchase used to fish the anchor.
  12. A torpedo.
  13. A polyphyletic grouping of the following extant taxonomic groups:
    1. Class Myxini, the hagfish (no vertebra)
    2. Class Petromyzontida, the lampreys (no jaw)
    3. Within infraphylum Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates (also including Tetrapoda)
      1. Class Chondrichthyes, cartilaginous fish such as sharks and rays
      2. Superclass Osteichthyes, bony fish.

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. A counter, used in various games.

Verb

  1. To try to catch fish, whether successfully or not.
    She went to the river to fish for trout.
  2. To try to find something other than fish in (a body of water).
    They fished the surrounding lakes for the dead body.
  3. 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.
  4. To attempt to obtain information by talking to people.
    The detective visited the local pubs fishing around for more information.
  5. Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.
  6. To attempt to gain.
    The actors loitered at the door, fishing for compliments.
  7. To repair a spar or mast using a brace often called a fish (see NOUN above).

Adjective

  1. Of or relating to fish; piscine; ichthyic.
    It was a fine fish dinner.


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