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fish
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: f?sh, IPA(key): /f??/
- (General New Zealand) IPA(key): /f??/
- Rhymes: -??
- Homophones: phish, ghoti
Etymology 1
From Middle English fisch, from Old English fis? (“fish”), from Proto-West Germanic *fisk, from Proto-Germanic *fiskaz (“fish”) (compare West Frisian fisk, Dutch vis, Danish fisk, Norwegian fisk, Swedish fisk, German Fisch), from Proto-Indo-European *peys?- (“fish”) (compare Irish iasc, Latin piscis).
Noun
fish (countable and uncountable, plural fish or fishes)
- (countable) A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
- (archaic or loosely) Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water.
- (Newfoundland) Cod; codfish.
- (uncountable) The flesh of the fish used as food.
- (uncountable) 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.
- (uncountable, derogatory, slang) A woman.
- (countable, slang) An easy victim for swindling.
- (countable, poker slang) A bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player).
- (countable, nautical) A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish, used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.
- (nautical) A purchase used to fish the anchor.
- (countable, nautical, military) A torpedo (the self-propelled explosive device).
- 1977, Richard O'Kane, Clear the Bridge: The War Patrols of the U.S.S. Tang, Ballantine Books (2003), page 344:
- The second and third fish went to the middle of her long superstructure and under her forward deck.
- 1977, Richard O'Kane, Clear the Bridge: The War Patrols of the U.S.S. Tang, Ballantine Books (2003), page 344:
- (zoology) A paraphyletic grouping of the following extant taxonomic groups:
- Class Myxini, the hagfish (no vertebra)
- Class Petromyzontida, the lampreys (no jaw)
- Within infraphylum Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates (also including Tetrapoda)
- Class Chondrichthyes, cartilaginous fish such as sharks and rays
- Superclass Osteichthyes, bony fish.
- (cartomancy) The thirty-fourth Lenormand card.
- (prison slang) a new (usually vulnerable) prisoner
Usage notes
The collective plural of fish is normally fish in the UK, except in archaic texts where fishes may be encountered; in the US, fishes is encountered as well, but much less commonly. When referring to two or more kinds of fish, the plural is fishes.
Synonyms
- (potential swindling victim): mark
- (card game): Go Fish
- (bad poker player): donkey, donk
Hyponyms
- (aquatic cold-blooded vertabrae with gills): Cephalaspidomorphi, Chondrichthyes, Osteichthyes
- (food): seafood
Derived terms
Related terms
- (adj): fishly, piscine, fishy (inf.)
- (astronomical): The Fish, Pisces
- (collective): piscifauna
- (combinatorial form): pisci- (Latinate, general)
- (fish-catcher): See fisher
- (fish-eater): piscivore
- (fish-infesting): piscolous
- (fish-killing): piscicidal
- (fish-like): fishly, piscose (culinary), fishy, fishlike (inf.)
- (fish science): fishlore, piscatology (irreg.)
- (fish-shaped): pisciform
- (fish vendor): fishmonger, piscitarian
- (full of fish): fishful, pisculent
- (skin disorder): fish-skin disease
- (state of being a fish): fishdom, fishhood (formal), piscinity (formal), fishiness (inf.)
Descendants
- Sranan Tongo: fisi
- ? Chinook Jargon: pish
- ? Finnish: fisu
- ? Zulu: ufishi
Translations
See fish/translations § Noun.
See also
- Appendix:Fish
Etymology 2
Deverbal from to fish (etymology 3).
Noun
fish (plural fishes)
- A period of time spent fishing.
- An instance of seeking something.
Etymology 3
From Old English fiscian, from Proto-West Germanic *fisk?n, from Proto-Germanic *fisk?n?.
Verb
fish (third-person singular simple present fishes, present participle fishing, simple past and past participle fished)
- (intransitive) To hunt fish or other aquatic animals in a body of water.
- 19th c., anonymous, "The Bonny Ship the 'Diamond'"
- It's cheer up, my lads, let your hearts never fail,
- For the bonny ship the Diamond goes a-fishing for the whale.
- She went to the river to fish for trout.
- 19th c., anonymous, "The Bonny Ship the 'Diamond'"
- (transitive) To search (a body of water) for something other than fish.
- (fishing, transitive) To use as bait when fishing.
- (intransitive) To (attempt to) find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.
- Synonym: rummage
- (intransitive, followed by "for" or "around for") To talk to people in an attempt to get them to say something, or seek to obtain something by artifice.
- 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:
- Laoctonos is fishing for a compliment,
But ’tis his due. Yes, you have drunk more wine,
And shed more blood, than any man in Thebes.
- Laoctonos is fishing for a compliment,
- 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:
- (intransitive, cricket) Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.
- (nautical, transitive) To repair (a spar or mast) by fastening a beam or other long object (often called a fish) over the damaged part (see Noun above).
- 1970, James Henderson, The Frigates, an account of the lesser warships of the wars from 1793 to 1815, Wordsworth (1998), page 143:
- […] the crew were set to replacing and splicing the rigging and fishing the spars.
- 1970, James Henderson, The Frigates, an account of the lesser warships of the wars from 1793 to 1815, Wordsworth (1998), page 143:
- (nautical, transitive) To hoist the flukes of.
- 1860, Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons (page 214)
- Found that the cause of the ship's having drifted on the night of the 19th, was from the bight of the chain span (used to fish the anchor,) having slipped between the shank and upper fluke, thereby preventing the lower fluke from opening […]
- 1860, Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons (page 214)
Synonyms
- (try to catch a fish): angle, drop in a line
- (try to find something): rifle, rummage
- (attempt to gain (compliments, etc)): angle
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 4
Borrowed from French fiche (“peg, mark”).
Noun
fish (plural fishes)
- (obsolete) A counter, used in various games.
References
- fish in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Further reading
- Fish (disambiguation) on the English Wikipedia. English Wikipedia
- fish on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- fish (food) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- fishing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Middle English
Noun
fish (plural fishes or fish)
- Alternative form of fisch
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ant
English
Alternative forms
- ante, ampte (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English ampte, amte, emete, amete, from Old English ?mette (“ant”), from Proto-West Germanic *?maitij? (literally “biting-thing, cutter”), from Proto-Germanic *?- (“off, away”) + *maitan? (“to cut”), from Proto-Indo-European *mai- (“to cut”). Cognate with Scots emmot (“ant”), dialectal Dutch emt, empt (“ant”), German Ameise and Emse (“ant”). See also emmet.
Pronunciation
- (General American, Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?nt, IPA(key): /ænt/
- (General New Zealand) enPR: ?nt, IPA(key): /?nt/
- (Received Pronunciation, obsolete) enPR: änt, IPA(key): /??nt/
- (æ-tensing) IPA(key): [??nt], [e?nt]
- Rhymes: -ænt
- Homophone: aunt (in some accents)
Noun
ant (plural ants)
- Any of various insects in the family Formicidae in the order Hymenoptera, typically living in large colonies composed almost entirely of flightless females.
- (Internet) A Web spider.
Synonyms
- (insect): emmet (archaic), pismire (archaic)
Hyponyms
- (insect in Formicidae): army ant, black garden ant, bull ant, carpenter ant, fire ant, garden ant, honey-pot ant, leafcutter ant, pharaoh ant, piss ant, red ant, sauba ant, thief ant, wood ant
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- ant- (prefix)
- -ant (suffix)
- Appendix: Animals
- army
- bike
- colony
- nest
- Appendix:English collective nouns
Verb
ant (third-person singular simple present ants, present participle anting, simple past and past participle anted)
- (ornithology) To rub insects, especially ants, on one's body, perhaps to control parasites or clean feathers.
References
Anagrams
- NAT, NTA, Nat, Nat., TAN, TNA, Tan, nat, tan
Breton
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
ant m
- furrow
Catalan
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Valencian) IPA(key): /?ant/
- (Central) IPA(key): /?an/
Noun
ant m (plural ants)
- elk, moose
Crimean Tatar
Noun
ant
- oath
Declension
Synonyms
- yemin
References
- Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajins?ko-kryms?kotatars?kyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]?[3], Simferopol: Dolya, ?ISBN
Egyptian
Romanization
ant
- Manuel de Codage transliteration of ?nt.
Haitian Creole
Etymology
From French entre (“between”).
Preposition
ant
- between
Lithuanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?nt]
Preposition
añt (with genitive)
- on
Meroitic
Romanization
ant
- Romanization of ?????????????
Middle Welsh
Alternative forms
- aant
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a?nt/
Verb
ant
- third-person plural present indicative of mynet
Norwegian Bokmål
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???nt/
- Rhymes: -??nt
- Hyphenation: ant
Verb
ant
- past participle of ane
- past participle common of ane
- past participle neuter of ane
Anagrams
- nat, tan
Turkish
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *?nt (“oath”). Cognate with Old Turkic ????? (nt), Azerbaijani and, etc.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ant/
- Hyphenation: ant
Noun
ant (definite accusative and?, plural antlar)
- oath
Synonyms
- kasem
- yemin
Turkmen
Noun
ant (definite accusative ?, plural ?)
- oath
Declension
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Vilamovian
Pronunciation
Noun
?nt f (plural anta)
- duck
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