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How to pronounce fish
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What does fish mean?
nounA 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.”
Any vertebrate, including tetrapods.
Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water.
“Be it known that, waiving all argument, I take the good old fashioned ground that the whale is a fish, and call upon holy Jonah to back me.”
verbTo 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.”
To search (a body of water) for something other than fish.
“They fished the surrounding lakes for the dead body.”
To use as bait when fishing.
“`What you need are frogs,' said the veteran. `Fish them at night. There's nothing like them on big cork floats.'”
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