Definitions for Fishes

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Fishes fish

Spelling: [fish]

IPA: /fɪʃ/

Fishes is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 50 anagrams from letters in Fishes (efhiss).

Definitions for Fishes

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.

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 Fishes

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 Fishes

"Thou wouldst feed the fishes of the Darro," interrupted Ximen.

Fortunately for libertarian-minded voters, Palin and Cruz are hardly the only fishes in the sea.

His most famous miracle was making a few loaves and fishes feed a multitude.

"I fancy it must be because you call them fishes and not fish," replied Vavasor.

Then he strayed down by the creek, as I have said, to tell his grief to the fishes.

He 'blessed the condition of the birds, beasts, and fishes, for they had not a sinful nature.

I kept thinking of that line in The Godfather, “Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.”

But fans say they miss them already—even if some are sleeping with the fishes.

In the walls were cages and ponds, where fishes and birds moved as though alive.

Here we have the collision of The Godfather “sleep with the fishes” line with the world of underwater creatures.