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Definition of Fish

Fish A counter, used in various games. of Fish A name loosely applied in popular usage to many animals of diverse characteristics, living in the water. An oviparous, vertebrate animal usually having fins and a covering scales or plates. It breathes by means of gills, and lives almost entirely in the water. See Pisces. The twelfth sign of the zodiac; Pisces. The flesh of fish, used as food. A purchase used to fish the anchor. A piece of timber, somewhat in the form of a fish, used to strengthen a mast or yard. To attempt to catch fish; to be employed in taking fish, by any means, as by angling or drawing a net. To seek to obtain by artifice, or indirectly to seek to draw forth; as, to fish for compliments. To catch; to draw out or up; as, to fish up an anchor. To search by raking or sweeping. To try with a fishing rod; to catch fish in; as, to fish a stream. To strengthen (a beam, mast, etc.), or unite end to end (two timbers, railroad rails, etc.) by bolting a plank, timber, or plate to the beam, mast, or timbers, lengthwise on one or both sides. See Fish joint, under Fish, n. Related Definitions: Almost, An, Anchor, And, Angling, Animal, Any, Applied, Artifice, As, Attempt, Be, Beam, Bolting, Both, By, Catch, Counter, Covering, Diverse, Draw, Drawing, Employed, End, Entirely, Fish, Fishing, Flesh, Food, For, Form, Forth, Games, Having, In, Indirectly, It, Joint, Lengthwise, Lives, Living, Loosely, Zodiac, Many, Mast, Name, Net, Obtain, Of, On, One, Or, Out, Oviparous, Piece, Pisces, Plank, Plate, Popular, Purchase, Railroad, Raking, Rod, Search, See, Seek, Sign, Somewhat, Stream, Strengthen, Sweeping, Taking, The, Timber, To, Try, Twelfth, Two, Under, Unite, Up, Usage, Used, Various, Vertebrate, Water, With, Yard

Fish Quotations Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Lao Tzu A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats. Benjamin Franklin Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days. Benjamin Franklin Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. Henry David Thoreau You know when they have a fishing show on TV? They catch the fish and then let it go. They don't want to eat the fish, they just want to make it late for something. Mitch Hedberg

Fish Translations fish in Afrikaans is vis, visvang fish in Danish is fisk, fiske fish in Dutch is vissen fish in Finnish is kala fish in German is fischen, Fisch, Fisch, angeln fish in Italian is pescare, pescare, pesce fish in Latin is piscis piscis fish in Norwegian is fisk, fiske fish in Portuguese is peixe, peixes fish in Spanish is pescar, pescado, pescar, pez fish in Swedish is meta, fisk

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