fish

A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.

“Salmon is a fish.”

Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water.

The flesh of the fish used as food.

“The seafood pasta had lots of fish but not enough pasta.”

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.

A woman.

An easy victim for swindling.

A bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player).

A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish, used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.

A purchase used to fish the anchor.

A torpedo.

A paraphyletic grouping of the following extant taxonomic groups:

The thirty-fourth Lenormand card.

A period of time spent fishing.

“The fish at the lake didn't prove successful.”

An instance of seeking something.

“Merely two fishes for information told the whole story.”

To hunt fish or other aquatic animals.

“She went to the river to fish for trout.”

To search (a body of water) for something other than fish.

“They fished the surrounding lakes for the dead body.”

To use as bait when fishing.

To (attempt to) find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.

“He was fishing for the keys in his pocket.”

(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 actors loitered at the door, fishing for compliments.”

Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.

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).

To hoist the flukes of.

A counter, used in various games.