different between fish vs trevally

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)

1. (countable) A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.

2. (archaic or loosely) Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water.
3. (Newfoundland) Cod; codfish.
4. (uncountable) The flesh of the fish used as food.

5. (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.
6. (uncountable, derogatory, slang) A woman.
7. (countable, slang) An easy victim for swindling.
8. (countable, poker slang) A bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player).
9. (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.
10. (nautical) A purchase used to fish the anchor.
11. (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.

12. (zoology) A paraphyletic grouping of the following extant taxonomic groups:
    1. Class Myxini, the hagfish (no vertebra)
    2. Class Petromyzontida, the lampreys (no jaw)
    3. Within infraphylum Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates (also including Tetrapoda)
       1. Class Chondrichthyes, cartilaginous fish such as sharks and rays
       2. Superclass Osteichthyes, bony fish.
13. (cartomancy) The thirty-fourth Lenormand card.
14. (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)

1. A period of time spent fishing.

2. 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)

1. (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.

2. (transitive) To search (a body of water) for something other than fish.

3. (fishing, transitive) To use as bait when fishing.
4. (intransitive) To (attempt to) find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.

   Synonym: rummage

5. (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.

6. (intransitive, cricket) Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.
7. (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.

8. (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 […]

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)

1. (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)

1. Alternative form of fisch

English

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

Noun

trevally (plural trevallies)

1. Certain fish of family Carangidae
   1. (Australia) Species sold for food

Usage notes

• Not to be confused with trevalla (Hyperoglyphe antarctica).

Synonyms

• (Australian food species): araara (NZ)

Derived terms

• Aldabra trevally (Carangoides dinema)
• armed trevally (Carangoides armatus)
• banded trevally (Carangoides ferdau, Gnathanodon speciosus)
• barcheek trevally (Carangoides plagiotaenia)
• barred trevally (Carangoides ferdau)
• barrier trevally (Caranx ignobilis)
• bigeye trevally (Caranx sexfasciatus)
• black-banded trevally (Seriolina nigrofasciata)
• blacktip trevally (Caranx heberi, Caranx hippos)
• blue trevally (Carangoides ferdau)
• bluefin trevally (Caranx melampygus)
• bluespotted trevally (Caranx bucculentus)
• brassy trevally (Caranx papuensis)
• brownback trevally (Carangoides praeustus)
• brown-backed trevally (Carangoides praeustus)
• bumpnose trevally (Carangoides hedlandensis)
• bludger trevally (Carangoides gymnostethus)
• cale cale trevally (Ulua mentalis)
• Chinese trevally (Alepes melanoptera)
• cleftbelly trevally (Atropus atropos)
• club-nosed trevally (Carangoides chrysophrys)
• coachwhip trevally (Carangoides oblongus)
• coastal trevally (Caranx coeruleopinnatus)
• deep sea trevally (Hyperoglyphe antarctica)
• deepsea trevally (Hyperoglyphe antarctica)
• diamond trevally (Alectis indica)
• dusky trevally (Carangoides chrysophrys)
• duskyshoulder trevally (Carangoides humerosus)
• epaulet trevally (Carangoides humerosus)
• false bluefin trevally (Carangoides orthogrammus)
• false trevally (Lactarius lactarius)
• Ferdau’s trevally (Carangoides ferdau)
• fringefin trevally (Pantolabus radiatus)
• fringe-finned trevally (Pantolabus radiatus)
• giant trevally (Caranx ignobilis)
• golden trevally (Gnathanodon speciosus)
• gold-spotted trevally (Carangoides bajad)
• goldspotted trevally (Carangoides fulvoguttatus)
• great trevally (Caranx sexfasciatus)
• green back trevally (Caranx papuensis)
• grunting trevally (Carangoides chrysophrys)
• horse trevally (Carangoides equula)
• imposter trevally (Carangoides talamparoides)
• island trevally (Carangoides orthogrammus)
• Japanese trevally (Carangoides coeruleopinnatus)
• king trevally (Gnathanodon speciosus)
• Kuweh trevally (Atropus atropos)
• longfin trevally (Carangoides armatus)
• longnose trevally (Carangoides chrysophrys)
• longrakered trevally (Ulua mentalis)
• lowly trevally (Caranx ignobilis)
• Malabar trevally (Carangoides malabaricus, Carangoides oblongus)
• nakedbreast trevally (Carangoides gymnostethus)
• oblong trevally (Carangoides oblongus)
• oblique-banded trevally (Carangoides oblongus)
• onion trevally (Caranx coeruleopinnatus)
• orange-spotted trevally (Carangoides bajad)
• Papuan trevally (Caranx papuensis)
• plumed trevally (Alectis indica)
• round-finned trevally (Pantolabus radiatus)
• six-banded trevally (Caranx sexfasciatus)
• shadow trevally (Carangoides dinema)
• shortridge trevally (Carangoides plagiotaenia)
• short-finned trevally (Alepes melanoptera)
• shortfinned trevally (Alepes melanoptera)
• shortridge trevally (Carangoides plagiotaenia)
• silvermouth trevally (Ulua aurochs)
• six-banded trevally (Caranx sexfasciatus)
• skipjack trevally (Pseudocaranx wrighti)
• slender-scaled trevally (Selaroides leptolepis)
• slender trevally (Selaroides leptolepis)
• smooth-tailed trevally (Selaroides leptolepis)
• spotted trevally (Caranx melampygus)
• tea-leaf trevally (Carangoides chrysophrys, Caranx papuensis)
• thicklip trevally (Carangoides orthogrammus)
• tille trevally (Caranx tille)
• twothread trevally (Carangoides dinema)
• white trevally (Pseudocaranx dentex, Pseudocaranx dinjerra)
• white-tongued trevally (Carangoides talamparoides)
• whitefin trevally (Carangoides equula)
• wide-mouthed trevally (Caranx bucculentus)
• yellow-banded trevally (Selaroides leptolepis)
• yellowspotted trevally (Carangoides fulvoguttatus)
• yellowstripe trevally (Selaroides leptolepis)

Translations

See also

• striped jack (Caranx vinctus)