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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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opah
English
Etymology
From Igbo uba. Earliest attestation in English is the Royal Society’s 1752 Philosophical Transactions, 1749–50 (vol. 46, p. 519): “The black Prince, and his Cousin, from Anamaboe on the Coast of Guinea, and Mr. Creighton, formerly Governor of Capo Corso Castle, upon seeing this Fish immediately knew it, and said it was common on that Coast … The Natives call it Opah, and the English there call it the King-fish”
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /???p?/
- (US) IPA(key): /?o?p?/
Noun
opah (plural opahs or opah)
- Any of various large, colourful, deep-bodied pelagic fish of the family Lamprididae.
- 2003, Margaret M. Smith, Phillip C. Heemstra (editors), Smiths' Sea Fishes (Revision of 1977, James Leonard Brierley Smith, The Sea Fishes of Southern Africa), page 398,
- A member of the lower epipelagic community, the opah feeds on squid and fishes (including some benthic species) and is usually found well offshore.
- 2006, Sharon Hamblin, Adventure Guide Maui, page 36,
- For a long time, opah has been thought to be good luck so it was only given away, never sold. Opah is a nonschooling open-ocean fish so it's not caught in great quantities.
- 2013, Roy Yamaguchi, John Harrisson, Roy's Fish and Seafood: Recipes from the Pacific Rim, page 77,
- Opah is an extraordinary-looking ocean fish, with an almost perfectly round shape; a comparatively thin, flat profile; a silvery skin, and bright crimson fins.
- 2003, Margaret M. Smith, Phillip C. Heemstra (editors), Smiths' Sea Fishes (Revision of 1977, James Leonard Brierley Smith, The Sea Fishes of Southern Africa), page 398,
Synonyms
- (fish of family Lampridae): Jerusalem haddock, kingfish, moonfish, redfin ocean pan, sunfish
Translations
See also
- opah on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Lampridae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
References
Anagrams
- HAPO, poha
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