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fish

/fɪʃ/ noun

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In Latin: piscis Wiktionary

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  1. A typically cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills; any vertebrate that is not a tetrapod.
    Salmon is a fish.
  2. Any vertebrate, including tetrapods.
  3. Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water. Now used in combination: (e.g., starfish, cuttlefish, jellyfish, etc).

noun

  1. A period of time spent fishing.
    The fish at the lake didn't prove successful.
  2. An instance of seeking something.
    Merely two fishes for information told the whole story.

verb

  1. To hunt fish or other aquatic animals in a body of water, or to collect coral or pearls from the bottom of the sea.
    We went fishing for crabs by the pier.
  2. To search (a body of water) for something other than fish.
    They fished the surrounding lakes for the dead body.
  3. To use as bait when fishing.

noun

  1. A counter, used in various games.

Origin

From Middle English fisch, from Old English fisċ (“fish”), from Proto-West Germanic *fisk, from Proto-Germanic *fiskaz (“fish”), from Proto-Indo-European *piskós (“fish”).

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