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1.nounA cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills."Salmon is a fish."
2.nounAny animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water.
3.nounThe flesh of the fish used as food."The seafood pasta had lots of fish but not enough pasta."
4.nounA 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.
5.nounA woman.
6.nounAn easy victim for swindling.
7.nounA bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player).
8.nounA makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish, used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.
9.nounA purchase used to fish the anchor.
10.nounA torpedo.
11.nounA paraphyletic grouping of the following extant taxonomic groups:
12.nounThe thirty-fourth Lenormand card.
13.nounA period of time spent fishing."The fish at the lake didn't prove successful."
14.nounAn instance of seeking something."Merely two fishes for information told the whole story."
15.verbTo hunt fish or other aquatic animals."She went to the river to fish for trout."
16.verbTo search (a body of water) for something other than fish."They fished the surrounding lakes for the dead body."
17.verbTo use as bait when fishing.
18.verbTo (attempt to) find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects."He was fishing for the keys in his pocket."
19.verb(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."The actors loitered at the door, fishing for compliments."
20.verbOf a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.
21.verbTo repair (a spar or mast) by fastening a beam or other long object (often called a fish) over the damaged part (see Noun above).
22.verbTo hoist the flukes of.
23.nounA counter, used in various games.