Dictionary Entry
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
- 1plural
of Crayfish
- 2noun
A counter, used in various games.
- 3plural
of Fish
- 4noun
A name loosely applied in popular usage to many animals of diverse characteristics, living in the water.
- 5noun
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.
- 6noun
The twelfth sign of the zodiac; Pisces.
- 7noun
The flesh of fish, used as food.
- 8noun
A purchase used to fish the anchor.
- 9noun
A piece of timber, somewhat in the form of a fish, used to strengthen a mast or yard.
- 10intransitive verb
To attempt to catch fish; to be employed in taking fish, by any means, as by angling or drawing a net.
- 11intransitive verb
To seek to obtain by artifice, or indirectly to seek to draw forth; as, to fish for compliments.
- 12transitive verb
To catch; to draw out or up; as, to fish up an anchor.
- 13transitive verb
To search by raking or sweeping.
- 14transitive verb
To try with a fishing rod; to catch fish in; as, to fish a stream.
- 15transitive 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.
- 16noun
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"
- 17noun
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"
- 18noun
the twelfth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about February 19 to March 20
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- 19noun
(astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Pisces
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- 20verb
catch or try to catch fish or shellfish
"I like to go fishing on weekends"
- 21verb
seek indirectly
"fish for compliments"
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