fish

Signification

Noun

1. A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
2. Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water.
3. Cod; codfish.
4. The flesh of the fish used as food.
5. 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.
6. (slang) A woman.
7. (slang) An easy victim for swindling.
8. (slang) A bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player).
9. A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish, used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.
10. A purchase used to fish the anchor.
11. (slang) A torpedo (self-propelled explosive device).
12. A paraphyletic grouping of the following extant taxonomic groups:
13. A paraphyletic grouping of the following extant taxonomic groups:
14. A paraphyletic grouping of the following extant taxonomic groups:
15. A paraphyletic grouping of the following extant taxonomic groups:
16. The thirty-fourth Lenormand card.
17. (slang) A new (usually vulnerable) prisoner.
18. A male homosexual; a gay man.

Verb

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

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/fɪʃ/

Étymologie

From Middle English fisch, from Old English fisċ (“fish”), from Proto-West Germanic *fisk, from Proto-Germanic *fiskaz (“fish”) (compare West Frisian fisk, Dutch vis, German Fisch, Danish fisk, Norwegian fisk, Swedish fisk, Icelandic fiskur), from Proto-Indo-European *peysk- (“fish”) (compare Irish iasc, Latin piscis).