Definition of Fish

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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.

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Fish Quotations

Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.
Mark Twain

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
Mark Twain

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

He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.
John Lennon

Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.
Steven Wright

It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings.
Kurt Cobain

I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.
W. C. Fields

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.
W. C. Fields

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
Henry David Thoreau

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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