fish

fish is a 4-letter English word with 21 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: of Crayfish. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 9 · 21 senses

Definitions

1. plural. of Crayfish
2. noun. A counter, used in various games.
3. plural. of Fish
4. noun. A name loosely applied in popular usage to many animals of diverse characteristics, living in the water.
5. noun. An oviparous, vertebrate animal usually having fins and a covering scales or plates. It breathes by means of gills, and lives almost entirely in the water. See Pisces.
6. noun. The twelfth sign of the zodiac; Pisces.
7. noun. The flesh of fish, used as food.
8. noun. A purchase used to fish the anchor.
9. noun. A piece of timber, somewhat in the form of a fish, used to strengthen a mast or yard.
10. intransitive verb. To attempt to catch fish; to be employed in taking fish, by any means, as by angling or drawing a net.
11. intransitive verb. To seek to obtain by artifice, or indirectly to seek to draw forth; as, to fish for compliments.
12. transitive verb. To catch; to draw out or up; as, to fish up an anchor.
13. transitive verb. To search by raking or sweeping.
14. transitive verb. To try with a fishing rod; to catch fish in; as, to fish a stream.
15. transitive verb. 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. See Fish joint, under Fish, n.
16. noun. any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills

    "the shark is a large fish"

    "in the living room there was a tank of colorful fish"

17. noun. the flesh of fish used as food

    "in Japan most fish is eaten raw"

    "after the scare about foot-and-mouth disease a lot of people started eating fish instead of meat"

18. noun. the twelfth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about February 19 to March 20

    Synonyms: pisces

19. noun. (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Pisces

    Synonyms: pisces

20. verb. catch or try to catch fish or shellfish

    "I like to go fishing on weekends"

21. verb. seek indirectly

    "fish for compliments"

    Synonyms: angle

Synonyms

pisces, angle

Common word forms

fished, fisher, fishes, fishful, fishing, fishable, fishless

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