Fish

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A typically cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gill; any vertebrate that is not a tetrapod.

   “Salmon is a fish.”

2. isim Any vertebrate, including tetrapods.
3. isim Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water.

   “The whale, the limpet, the tortoise and the oyster… as men have been willing to give them all the name of fishes, it is wisest for us to conform.”

4. isim Now used in combination: (e.g., starfish, cuttlefish, jellyfish, etc).
5. isim Cod; codfish.
6. isim The flesh of the fish used as food.

   “The seafood pasta had lots of fish but not enough pasta.”

7. isim An aquatic or semiaquatic animal suitable for consumption during fasting on Fridays during Lent.

   “Since the semi-aquatic beaver was a skilled swimmer, the Church declared it to be a fish for dietary purposes.”

8. isim A card game in which the object is to obtain cards in pairs or sets of four (depending on the variation), by asking the other players for cards of a particular rank.
9. isim An easy victim for swindling.
10. isim A bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player).
11. isim A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish, used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.
12. isim A purchase used to fish the anchor.
13. isim a wrestler who seldom wins and seldom losing by being pinned.

    “The second and third fish went to the middle of her long superstructure and under her forward deck.”

14. isim A torpedo (self-propelled explosive device).
15. isim The thirty-fourth Lenormand card.
16. isim A (feminine) woman. (See also fishy.)
17. isim A new (usually vulnerable) prisoner.

    “When a young male enters the prison system he is looked over and is labeled a FISH.”

18. isim A male homosexual; a gay man.

    “Him father is a fish so mi know say it's sprat dat”

19. isim A drag queen or transgender woman who looks like a cisgender woman.
20. isim A spaceship.
21. isim A period of time spent fishing.

    “The fish at the lake didn't prove successful.”

22. isim An instance of seeking something.

    “Merely two fishes for information told the whole story.”

23. fiil 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.”

24. fiil To search (a body of water) for something other than fish.

    “They fished the surrounding lakes for the dead body.”

25. fiil 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.'”

26. fiil To (attempt to) find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.

    “Why are you fishing through my things?”

27. fiil To talk to people in an attempt to get them to say something, or seek to obtain something by artifice.

    “The detective visited the local pubs fishing around for more information.”

28. fiil Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.
29. fiil To repair (a spar or mast) by fastening a beam or other long object (often called a fish) over the damaged part (see Noun above).

    “[…] the crew were set to replacing and splicing the rigging and fishing the spars.”

30. fiil To hoist the flukes of.

    “Found that the cause of the ship's having drifted on the night of the 19th, was from the bight of the chain span (used to fish the anchor,) having slipped between the shank and upper fluke, thereby preventing the lower fluke from opening […]”