fish
/fɪʃ/ noun A1- A typically cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills; any vertebrate that is not a tetrapod. · Salmon is a fish.· The fishmonger sells fishes from all over the world.
- Any vertebrate, including tetrapods.
- Cod; codfish.
- The flesh of the fish used as food. · The seafood pasta had lots of fish but not enough pasta.· Though Lena is a vegetarian, she doesn't have any problem with eating fish.
- An aquatic or semiaquatic animal suitable for consumption during fasting on Fridays during Lent.
- 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.
- An easy victim for swindling.
- A bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player).
Plural fish
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Then suddenly he hauled something in as a fisherman lands a fish—some large, round object which obscured the light as it was dragged through the open casement.
Picture to yourself the pilot fish with the shark, the jackal with the lion—anything that is insignificant in companionship with what is formidable: not only formidable, Watson, but sinister—in the highest degree sinister.
The latter seemed to have resigned himself; he drew the corks, and partook largely of the fish with the garlic and fat.
When they had dragged the nets to the shore they found but few fish: the nets were full of sand and stones, and the men were beyond measure cast down so much at the disappointment which had befallen them, but because they had formed such very different expectations.
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