fish
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.
Noun 4 meanings
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.”
Any vertebrate, including tetrapods.
Cod; codfish.
The flesh of the fish used as food.
“The seafood pasta had lots of fish but not enough pasta.”
Verb 4 meanings
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.”
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.
To (attempt to) find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.
“Why are you fishing through my things?”
Etymology
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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FISH at a glance
FISH has 4 letters and scores 10 points in Scrabble (F 4 + I 1 + S 1 + H 4) and 9 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #1,299 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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