| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Fish.[Websters]
2. To be angled. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To have birded, junked or fluked. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To be peached. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To have hauled. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To be fried. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To have hooked, raked or dogged. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To be chapped. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. To have searched, examined, ferreted or scouted. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. To be paired.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb fish.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (fish) | 1. Seek indirectly; "fish for compliments".[Wordnet]. 2. Catch or try to catch fish or shellfish; "I like to go fishing on weekends".[Wordnet]. 3. To attempt to catch fish; to be employed in taking fish, by any means, as by angling or drawing a net.[Websters]. 4. To seek to obtain by artifice, or indirectly to seek to draw forth; as, to fish for compliments.[Websters]. 5. To catch; to draw out or up; as, to fish up an anchor.[Websters]. 6. To search by raking or sweeping.[Websters]. 7. To try with a fishing rod; to catch fish in; as, to fish a stream.[Websters]. 8. 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.[Websters]. 9. Base verb from the following inflections: fishing, fished, fishes, fisher, fishers, fishingly and fishedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "FISHED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Specialty Definition: fish
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Computing | Fish n. [Adelaide University, Australia] 1. Another metasyntactic variable. See foo. Derived originally from the Monty Python skit in the middle of "The Meaning of Life" entitled "Find the Fish". 2. A pun for `microfiche'. A microfiche file cabinet may be referred to as a `fish tank'. Source: Jargon File. | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Noun] An animal that lives in water. Fish is a general name for a class of animals subsisting in water, which were distributed by Linne into six orders. They breathe by means of gills, swim by the aid of fins, and are oviparous. Some of them have the skeleton bony, and others cartilaginous. Most of the former have the opening of the gills closed by a peculiar covering, called the gill-lid; many of the latter have no gill-lid, and are hence said to breathe through apertures. Cetaceous animals, as the whale and dolphin, are, in popular language, called fishes, and have been so classed by some naturalists; but they breathe by lungs, and are viviparous, like quadrupeds. The term fish has been also extended to other aquatic animals, such as shell-fish, lobsters, &c. We use fish, in the singular, for fishes in general or the whole race.. | 2: [Noun] The flesh of fish, used as food. But we usually apply flesh to land animals.. | 3: [Verb] To attempt to catch fish; to be employed in taking fish, by any means, as by angling or drawing nets.. | 4: [Verb] To attempt or seek to obtain by artifice, or indirectly to seek to draw forth; as, to fish for compliments.. | 5: [Verb] To search by raking or sweeping; as, to fish the jakes for papers.. | 6: [Verb] In seamanship, to strengthen, as a mast or yard, with a piece of timber.. | 7: [Verb] To catch; draw out or up; as, to fish up a human body when sunk; to fish an anchor.. | 8: [Noun] In ships, a machine to hoist and draw up the flukes of an anchor, towards the top of the bow.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. |
| Antiquities | Fish. See Diaetetica; Victus. (references) | ||
| Bible | 1: Fish called _dag_ by the Hebrews, a word denoting great fecundity (Gen. 9:2; Num. 11:22; Jonah 2:1, 10). No fish is mentioned by name either in the Old or in the New Testament. Fish abounded in the Mediterranean and in the lakes of the Jordan, so that the Hebrews were no doubt acquainted with many species. Two of the villages on the shores of the Sea of Galilee derived their names from their fisheries, Bethsaida (the "house of fish") on the east and on the west. There is probably no other sheet of water in the world of equal dimensions that contains such a variety and profusion of fish. About thirty-seven different kinds have been found. Some of the fishes are of a European type, such as the roach, the barbel, and the blenny; others are markedly African and tropical, such as the eel-like silurus. There was a regular fish-market apparently in Jerusalem (2 Chr. 33:14; Neh. 3:3; 12:39; Zeph. 1:10), as there was a fish-gate which was probably contiguous to it. Sidon is the oldest fishing establishment known in history. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. | 2: The Hebrews recognized fish as one of the great divisions of the animal kingdom, and as such gave them a place in the account of the creation, (Genesis 1:21,28) as well as in other passages where an exhaustive description of living creatures is intended. (Genesis 9:2; Exodus 20:4; 4:18; 1 Kings 4:33) The Mosaic law, (Leviticus 11:9,10) pronounced unclean such fish as were devoid of fins and scales; these were and are regarded as unwholesome in Egypt. Among the Philistines Dagon was represented by a figure half man and half fish. (1 Samuel 5:4) On this account the worship of fish is expressly prohibited. (4:18) In Palestine, the Sea of Galilee was and still is remarkable well stored with fish. (Tristram speaks of fourteen species found there, and thinks the number inhabiting it at least three times as great.) Jerusalem derived its supply chiefly from the Mediterranean. Comp. (Ezekiel 47:10) The existence of a regular fish-market is implied in the notice of the fish-gate, which was probably contiguous to it. (2 Chronicles 33:14; Nehemiah 3:3; 12:39; Zephaniah 1:10) The Orientals are exceedingly fond of fish as an article of diet. Numerous allusions to the art of fishing occur in the Bible. The most usual method of catching fish was by the use of the net, either the casting net, (Ezekiel 26:5,14; 47:10); Habb 1:15 probably resembling the one used in Egypt, as shown in Wilkinson (iii. 55), or the draw or drag net, (Isaiah 19:8); Habb 1:15 which was larger, and required the use of a boat. The latter was probably most used on the Sea of Galilee, as the number of boats kept on it was very considerable. (references) | |
| Biology & Biotechnology | Any of numerous cold-blooded strictly aquatic waterbreathing craniate vertebrates. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Dream Interpretation | 1: Dead fish, signifies the loss of wealth and power through some dire calamity. 2: Eating fish, denotes warm and lasting attachments. 3: For a young woman to dream of seeing fish, portends that she will have a handsome and talented lover. 4: To dream of catching a catfish, denotes that you will be embarrassed by evil designs of enemies, but your luck and presence of mind will tide you safely over the trouble. 5: To dream of fishing, denotes energy and economy; but if you do not succeed in catching any, your efforts to obtain honors and wealth will be futile. 6: To dream that you see fish in clear-water streams, denotes that you will be favored by the rich and powerful. 7: To wade in water, catching fish, denotes that you will possess wealth acquired by your own ability and enterprise. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... | ||
| Geography | 1: Fish is geographically located in Canada. Its features include a lake (a large inland body of standing water), and a stream (a body of running water moving to a lower level in a channel on land). Its geographic coordinates are 48.983333 degrees North latitude and 100.35 degrees West longitude. (references) | 2: Fish is geographically located in Namibia. Its features include an intermittent stream. Its geographic coordinates are 28.133333 degrees South latitude and 17.183333 degrees East longitude. (references) | 3: Fish is geographically located in South Africa. Its features include an intermittent stream, and a stream (a body of running water moving to a lower level in a channel on land). Its geographic coordinates are 30.833333 degrees South latitude and 20.383333 degrees East longitude. (references) |
| Health | Florescent NC2 hybridization. (references) | ||
| Law | FISH. 1. An animal which inhabits the water, breathes by the means of gills, and swims by the aid of fins, and is oviparous. 2. Fishes in rivers and in the sea, are considered as animals ferae naturae, and consequently no one has any property in them until they have been captured; and, like other wild animals, if having been taken, they escape and. regain their liberty, the captor loses his property in them. Vide Ferae Naturae. The owner of a fishery in the lower part of a stream cannot construct any contrivance by which to obstruct the passage of fish up the stream. 5 Pick. R. 199. (references) | ||
| Literature | 1: "She would be a betwixt-and-between ... neither fish nor fowl." - Mrs. Lynn Linton. 2: Fish comes first because in the Middle Ages the clergy took precedence of the laity. 3: Fish It is neither fish, flesh, nor fowl, or Neither fish, flesh, nor good red herring. Not fish (food for the monk), not flesh (food for the people generally), nor yet red herring (food for paupers). Suitable to no class of people, fit for neither one thing nor another. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
| Mining | 1: 1. To recover from a well any equipment left there during drilling operations, such as a lost bit or drill collar or part of the drill string. 2. To remove from an older well certain pieces of equipment (such as packers, liners, or screen liner) to allow reconditioning of the well. (references) | 2: A. To join two beams, rails, etc., by long pieces at their sides b. The article recovered and/or the act or processes involved in the recovery of lost drilling tools, casing, or other articles from a borehole. Also called fishing. (references) | 3: Any piece of drilling equipment accidentally left in the hole. Source: European Union. (references) | 4: The article recovered and/or the act or processes involved in the recovery of lost drilling tools, casing, or other articles from a borehole. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Slang | The putatively offensive odor emitted by female genitalia, woman. (references) | ||
| Slang in 1811 | FISH. A seaman. A scaly fish; a rough, blunt tar. To have other fish to fry; to have other matters to mind, something else to do. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | ||
| Tips from 1870 | 1: Most words ending in y change this termination into ies, as duties, cities, etc. The plural of fly, the insect, is formed in the usual manner, but fly, a light carriage, adds s; as, "Six flys carried the guests to their homes." 2: Usage: Fish, Fly. The plural of fish is fishes when considered individually, and fish when considered collectively. "My three pet fishes feed out of my hand." "Six barrels of fish were landed from the schooner." Source: Slips of Speech. | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Etymology 1] (collectively) Plural form of fish. (references) | 2: [Etymology 1] (countable) A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills. We have many fish in our aquarium. (references) | 3: [Etymology 1] (countable) A period of time spent fishing. The fish at the lake didn't prove successful. (references) | 4: [Etymology 1] (countable) An instance of seeking something. Merely two fishes for information told the whole story. (references) | 5: [Etymology 1] (possibly archaic) Any vertebrates that lives in water and cannot live outside it. (references) | 6: [Etymology 1] (slang) An easy victim for swindling. (references) | 7: [Etymology 1] (uncountable) A card game in which the object is to obtain pairs of cards. (references) | 8: [Etymology 1] (uncountable) The flesh of the fish used as food. The seafood pasta had lots of fish but not enough pasta. (references) | 9: [Etymology 1] (uncountable, derogatory, slang) Women. (references) | 10: [Etymology 2] (intransitive) To try to catch fish, whether successfully or not. She went to the river to fish for trout. (references) | 11: [Etymology 2] (intransitive, cricket) Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it. (references) | 12: [Etymology 2] (intransitive, followed by "about," "around," "through," etc.) To attempt to find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects. Why are you fishing through in my things?. (references) | 13: [Etymology 2] (intransitive, followed by "around") To attempt to obtain information by talking to people. The detective visited the local pubs fishing around for more information. (references) | 14: [Etymology 2] (transitive, figuratively, followed by "for") To attempt to gain. The actors loitered at the door, fishing for compliments. (references) | 15: [Etymology 2] (transitive, followed by "for") To attempt to get hold of (an object) that is among other objects. He was fishing for in his pocket the keys. (references) | 16: [Etymology 2] Of or relating to fish. It was a fine fish dinner. She went to the river to fish for trout. (references) | 17: [Etymology 2] Of or relating to fishing. Put the worm on a fish hook. Why are you fishing through in my things?. (references) | 18: [Initialism] (genetics) fluorescent in-situ hybridization; a technique used to identify whether a DNA sample has a specific sequence. (references) |
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Common Expressions: fish
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| A Fish Out of Water | A Fish Out of Water is an episode of Family Guy that first aired November 19, 2001. This episode was scheduled to air on September 12, but was postponed due to the September 11, 2001 attacks. (references) | ||
| African Fish Eagle | The African Fish Eagle, Haliaeetus vocifer, is a large species of eagle and a bird of prey. (references) | ||
| Alligator fish | (Zo["o]l.), a marine fish of northwestern America (Podothecus acipenserinus). Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Amber fish | A fish of the southern Atlantic coast (Seriola Carolinensis.). Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Anemone fish | Live associated with sea anemones. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Angel fish | See under Angel. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Angler fish | Fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Archer fish | A small fish (Toxotes jaculator), of the East Indies; -- so called from its ejecting drops of water from its mouth at its prey. The name is also applied to Chaetodon rostratus. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Asam fish | Asam fish is a type of dish where fish is cooked in the juice of the tamarind (asam) fruit. The cooking process involves soaking the pulp of the fruit until it is soft and then squeezing out the juice for cooking the fish. Asam paste may be substituted for convenience. Various vegetables such as brinjals (Indian eggplants), okra and tomatoes are added. Fish (such as mackerel or red snapper) or fish heads are also added to make a spicy and tart fish stew. It is important that the fish remain intact for serving so generally the fish is added last. (references) | ||
| Babel Fish Corporation | Babel Fish Corporation is a language-software company based in Canada. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: FISHED
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Fished joint | Mining | A rail joint made by means of fishplates. (references) | |
| Hours fished | Statistics | The amount of time an angler actively fished in a mode with fishing gear in the water. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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Abbreviations & Acronyms: fish
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | ||||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field | |
| FISH | Danish | Fluorescens-in-situ-hybridisering | Chemistry | |
| FISH | Dutch | Fluorescente in situ-hybridisatie | Chemistry | |
| FISH | English | Committee on Fisheries | N/A | |
| FISH | French | Méthode FISH | Medicine | |
| FISH | German | Ausschuss für Fischerei | N/A | |
| FISH | Italian | Direzione generale della Pesca | European Union | |
| FID | English | Orfe(= fish) | Food & Agriculture, Biology & Biotechnology | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | Top | |||
