Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word FISH

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Definitions of FISH

1. A period of time spent fishing.
2. An instance of seeking something.
3. (archaic or loosely) Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water.
4. (countable) A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
5. (Newfoundland) Cod; codfish.
6. (uncountable) The flesh of the fish used as food.
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. (uncountable, derogatory, slang) A woman.
9. (countable, slang) An easy victim for swindling.
10. (countable, poker slang) A bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player).
11. (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.
12. (nautical) A purchase used to fish the anchor.
13. (countable, nautical, military, slang) A torpedo (self-propelled explosive device).
14. (zoology) A paraphyletic grouping of the following extant taxonomic groups:
15. (cartomancy) The thirty-fourth Lenormand card.
16. (prison slang) A new (usually vulnerable) prisoner.
17. (Jamaica, offensive, derogatory) A male homosexual; a gay man.
18. (intransitive) To hunt fish or other aquatic animals in a body of water.
19. (transitive) To search (a body of water) for something other than fish.
20. (fishing, transitive) To use as bait when fishing.
21. (intransitive) To (attempt to) find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.
22. (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.
23. (intransitive, cricket) Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.
24. (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).
25. (nautical, transitive) To hoist the flukes of.
26. (obsolete) A counter, used in various games.
27. (genetics) Acronym of fluorescent in situ hybridization: a molecular cytogenetic technique used to identify whether a DNA sample has a specific sequence.
28. A surname.

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Examples of Using FISH in a Sentence

• They are so called because of their lightly built fins made of webbings of skin supported by radially extended thin bony spines called lepidotrichia, as opposed to the bulkier, fleshy lobed fins of the sister class Sarcopterygii (lobe-finned fish).
• Aquaculture involves cultivating freshwater, brackish water, and saltwater populations under controlled or semi-natural conditions and can be contrasted with commercial fishing, which is the harvesting of wild fish.
• The series revolves around Calista Flockhart in the title role as a lawyer working in the Boston law firm Cage and Fish.
• In mammals, invertebrates and most fish, the anus (: anuses or ani; from Latin, 'ring' or 'circle') is the external body orifice at the exit end of the digestive tract (bowel), i.
• The Mexican tetra (Astyanax mexicanus), also known as the blind cave fish, blind cave characin or the blind cave tetra, is a freshwater fish in the Characidae family (tetras and relatives) of the order Characiformes.
• The latter almost links its sources with those of the Essequibo; during floods headwaters of the Branco and those of the Essequibo are connected, allowing a level of exchange in the aquatic fauna (such as fish) between the two systems.
• Such knives were originally fixed-blade knives with durable cutting edges suitable for rough work such as cutting cordage, cutting/scraping hides, butchering animals, cleaning fish scales, reshaping timber, and other tasks.
• The zebrafish (Danio rerio) is a freshwater fish belonging to the minnow family (Cyprinidae) of the order Cypriniformes.
• They can be contrasted with the Osteichthyes or bony fish, which have skeletons primarily composed of bone tissue.
• Its name is Latin for "horned goat" or "goat horn" or "having horns like a goat's", and it is commonly represented in the form of a sea goat: a mythical creature that is half goat, half fish.
• The earliest period of settlement began around 10,000 years ago when nomadic people first began to settle, farm and fish in the region.
• As in many other South Pacific nations, the Cook Islands's economy is hindered by the country's isolation from foreign markets, lack of natural resources aside from fish, periodic devastation from natural disasters, and inadequate infrastructure.
• Cyprinidae is a family of freshwater fish commonly called the carp or minnow family, including the carps, the true minnows, and their relatives the barbs and barbels, among others.
• Examples include the mathematical models that describe the swinging of a clock pendulum, the flow of water in a pipe, the random motion of particles in the air, and the number of fish each springtime in a lake.
• After the severe economic troubles of the early 1990s, brought on by a drop in the vital fish catch and poor management of the economy, the Faroe Islands have recently recovered, with unemployment down to 5% in mid-1998, and holding below 3% since 2006, one of the lowest rates in Europe.
• Aquatic plants are used to give the freshwater aquarium a natural appearance, oxygenate the water, absorb ammonia, and provide habitat for fish, especially fry (babies) and for invertebrates.
• Ancient Greek cuisine was characterized by its frugality and was founded on the "Mediterranean triad": wheat, olive oil, and wine, with meat being rarely eaten and fish being more common.
• These extinctions span numerous families of plants and animals, including mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, and invertebrates, and affecting not just terrestrial species but also large sectors of marine life.
• It is an unincorporated, unorganized territory of the United States, administered by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service of the United States Department of the Interior as part of the National Wildlife Refuge system.
• He is known for writing and directing the films The Brother from Another Planet (1984), Matewan (1987), Eight Men Out (1988), Passion Fish (1992), The Secret of Roan Inish (1994), Lone Star (1996), and Men with Guns (1997).
• The reef is administered by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service as the Kingman Reef National Wildlife Refuge.
• Only certain types of mammals, birds, and fish, meeting specific criteria are kosher; the consumption of the flesh of any animals that do not meet these criteria, such as pork, frogs, and shellfish, is forbidden, except for locusts, which are the only kosher invertebrate.
• A kipper is a whole herring, a small, oily fish, that has been split in a butterfly fashion from tail to head along the dorsal ridge, gutted, salted or pickled, and cold-smoked over smouldering wood chips (typically oak).
• Livebearers are fish that retain their eggs inside the body and give birth to live, free-swimming young.
• Flathead grey mullet, or striped mullet, Mugil cephalus, a food fish species in the family Mugilidae.

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