fish

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. (countable) A typically cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
2. (countable, uncountable) A paraphyletic grouping of the following taxonomic groups:
3. (countable, uncountable) A paraphyletic grouping of the following taxonomic groups:
4. (countable, uncountable) A paraphyletic grouping of the following taxonomic groups:
5. (countable, uncountable) A paraphyletic grouping of the following taxonomic groups:
6. (countable, uncountable) A paraphyletic grouping of the following taxonomic groups:
7. (archaic, broadly, countable, uncountable) Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water.
8. (archaic, broadly, countable, uncountable) Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water.
9. (Newfoundland, countable, uncountable) Cod; codfish.
10. (uncountable) The flesh of the fish used as food.
11. (countable, uncountable) An aquatic or semiaquatic animal suitable for consumption during fasting on Fridays during Lent.
12. (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.
13. (countable, slang) An easy victim for swindling.
14. (countable, slang) A bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player).
15. (countable) A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish, used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.
16. (countable, uncountable) A purchase used to fish the anchor.
17. (countable, slang) A torpedo (self-propelled explosive device).
18. (countable, uncountable) The thirty-fourth Lenormand card.
19. (derogatory, positive, slang, sometimes, uncountable) A (feminine) woman. (See also fishy.)
20. (countable, slang, uncountable) A new (usually vulnerable) prisoner.
21. (Jamaica, countable, derogatory, offensive, uncountable) A male homosexual; a gay man.
22. (countable, uncountable) A drag queen or transgender woman who looks like a cisgender woman.
23. (countable, rare, uncountable) A spaceship.

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.
2. (transitive) To search (a body of water) for something other than fish.
3. (transitive) To use as bait when fishing.
4. (intransitive) To (attempt to) find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.
5. (intransitive) To talk to people in an attempt to get them to say something, or seek to obtain something by artifice.
6. (intransitive) Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.
7. (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) To hoist the flukes of.
9. (transitive) To draw or guide (a wire or cable) by means of fish tape.

Sinonieme

catch fish

angle

meat

🥩

river fish

fishy

hunt

ray

net

fishing

🎣

go fishing

tadpole

animal

🐾

generic

salmon

trawl

spawner

counter

flathead goby

pisces

fish meat

seize

stonefish

bird

🐦

chip

clamp

🗜️

catch

smell

👃

fastening

scale

beg

snare

pufferfish

oyster

🦪

odor

piscatorial

husk

piscatory

piscine

dredge

dish

seahorse

dairy

croaker

bob

codfish

blood

🩸

ants

clownfish

birds

fumble

Vertalings

poisson

🐟

Fisch

🐟

pescado

🎣

pesce

🐟

peixe

🐟

pez

vis

🐟

ψάρι

pêcher

🐟

balık

🐟

peix

🐟

piscis

🐟

fischen

🐟

pescar

🐟

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/fɪʃ/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: fisch

Geërf van Old English: fisċ

Verwante met Fries: fisk

Verwante met Nederlands: vis

Verwante met Duits: Fisch

Verwante met Deens: fisk

Verwante met Noors: fisk

Verwante met Sweeds: fisk

Verwante met Yslands: fiskur

Verwante met Iers: iasc

Verwante met Latyn: piscis

Geërf van Old English: fiscian

In summary

From Middle English fisch, from Old English fisċ (“fish”), from Proto-West Germanic *fisk, from Proto-Germanic *fiskaz (“fish”), from Proto-Indo-European *peysk- (“fish”).
Cognates
Cognate with Yola wish (“fish”), North Frisian fasch, fask, Fesk (“fish”), Saterland Frisian Fisk (“fish”), West Frisian fisk (“fish”), Cimbrian biss, visch, viss (“fish”), Dutch vis, visch (“fish”), Dutch Low Saxon, Mòcheno visch (“fish”), German Fisch (“fish”), German Low German Fösch (“fish”), Luxembourgish Fësch (“fish”), Yiddish פֿיש (fish, “fish”), Danish, Elfdalian, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish fisk (“fish”), Faroese, Icelandic fiskur (“fish”), Gothic 𐍆𐌹𐍃𐌺𐍃 (fisks, “fish”), Crimean Gothic fisct (“fish”). Compare Irish iasc (“fish”), Latin piscis (“fish”).

Sinne

Drink like a fish , water only .

I locked eyes with a fish in the tank .

Salmon is one of the most popular fish and very delicious , though usually not sustainable .

We got few vegetables and fruits , and became fish eaters .

A so-called " golden giant danio ", sometimes seen , is in reality a partial albino fish .