Definitions for Fish

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IPA: /fɪʃ/

Fish is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 20 anagrams from letters in Fish (fhis).

Definitions for Fish

noun

1. any of various cold-blooded, aquatic vertebrates, having gills, commonly fins, and typically an elongated body covered with scales.
2. (loosely) any of various other aquatic animals.
3. the flesh of fishes used as food.
4. Fishes, Astronomy, Astrology. the constellation or sign of Pisces.
5. Informal. a person:
6. a long strip of wood, iron, etc., used to strengthen a mast, joint, etc.
7. Cards Slang. an incompetent player whose incompetence can be exploited.
8. Slang. a dollar:
9. Slang. a new prison inmate.
10. Hamilton, 1808–93, U.S. statesman: secretary of state 1869–77.

Idioms

1. drink like a fish, to drink alcoholic beverages to excess:
2. fish in troubled waters, to take advantage of troubled or uncertain conditions for personal profit.
3. fish or cut bait, to choose a definite course of action, especially to decide whether to participate in or retreat from an activity.
4. fish out of water, a person out of his or her proper or accustomed environment:
5. neither fish nor fowl, having no specific character or conviction; neither one nor the other.
6. other fish to fry, other matters requiring attention:

Verb phrases

1. fish out, to deplete (a lake, stream, etc.) of fish by fishing.

verb (used with object)

1. to catch or attempt to catch (any species of fish or the like).
2. to try to catch fish in (a stream, lake, etc.):
3. to draw, as by fishing (often followed by up or out):
4. to search through, as by fishing.
5. Nautical. to secure (an anchor) by raising the flukes. to reinforce (a mast or other spar) by fastening a spar, batten, metal bar, or the like, lengthwise over a weak place.

verb (used without object)

1. to catch or attempt to catch fish, as by angling or drawing a net.
2. to search carefully:
3. to seek to obtain something indirectly or by artifice:
4. to search for or attempt to catch onto something under water, in mud, etc., by the use of a dredge, rake, hook, or the like.
5. to attempt to recover detached tools or other loose objects from an oil or gas well.

Origin of Fish

before 900; (noun) Middle English fis(c)h, fyssh, Old English fisc; cognate with Dutch vis, German Fisch, Old Norse fiskr, Gothic fisks; akin to Latin piscis, Irish iasc; (v.) Middle English

Examples for Fish

"I feel as if I should like some fish for breakfast," said Robert one morning, on waking up.

Turtles, fish, ospreys and rare freshwater sharks and sawfish thrive there.

A U.S. fish and Wildlife officer corroborated another account.

A fish and Wildlife special agent collected the bodies of two birds at the site, a redhead duck and a mourning dove.

When Chérif got out of prison, he worked at the fish counter of a supermarket.

He did not like his neighbor, Mr. fish, any too well but there was no way out.

"I'll take another piece of fish, mother," said Robert, passing his plate.

He was very glad to earn money in this way, since it seemed he was to have no fish to dispose of.

Kocurek documented the scene with notes and diagrams, and called the U.S. fish and Wildlife Service.

He caught but two fish, and they were so small that he decided not to offer them for sale.