Dictionary entry details
• FISH (noun)
Meaning:
Any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Context examples:
the shark is a large fish / in the living room there was a tank of colorful fish
Hypernyms ("fish" is a kind of...):
aquatic vertebrate (animal living wholly or chiefly in or on water)
Meronyms (parts of "fish"):
fishbone (a bone of a fish)
caudal fin; tail fin (the tail of fishes and some other aquatic vertebrates)
fin (organ of locomotion and balance in fishes and some other aquatic animals)
lateral line; lateral line organ (sense organs of fish and amphibians; believed to detect pressure changes in the water)
milt (seminal fluid produced by male fish)
roe (eggs of female fish)
fish scale (scale of the kind that covers the bodies of fish)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fish"):
bottom-dweller; bottom-feeder (a fish that lives and feeds on the bottom of a body of water)
A. testudineus; Anabas testudineus; climbing perch (a small perch of India whose gills are modified to allow it to breathe air; has spiny pectoral fins that enable it to travel on land)
bony fish (any fish of the class Osteichthyes)
northern snakehead (a voracious freshwater fish that is native to northeastern China; can use fin to walk and can survive out of water for three days; a threat to American populations of fish)
spawner (a female fish at spawning time)
mouthbreeder (any of various fishes that carry their eggs and their young in their mouths)
young fish (a fish that is young)
rough fish (any fish useless for food or sport or even as bait)
food fish (any fish used for food by human beings)
bottom lurkers (a fish that lurks on the bottom of a body of water)
cartilaginous fish; chondrichthian (fishes in which the skeleton may be calcified but not ossified)
fingerling (a young or small fish)
game fish; sport fish (any fish providing sport for the angler)
Holonyms ("fish" is a member of...):
Pisces (a group of vertebrates comprising both cartilaginous and bony fishes and sometimes including the jawless vertebrates; not used technically)
school; shoal (a large group of fish)
Meaning:
The flesh of fish used as food
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Context examples:
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 / they have a chef who specializes in fish
Hypernyms ("fish" is a kind of...):
food; solid food (any solid substance (as opposed to liquid) that is used as a source of nourishment)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fish"):
hake (the lean flesh of a fish similar to cod)
trout (flesh of any of several primarily freshwater game and food fishes)
rock salmon (any of several coarse fishes (such as dogfish or wolffish) when used as food)
salmon (flesh of any of various marine or freshwater fish of the family Salmonidae)
shad (bony flesh of herring-like fish usually caught during their migration to fresh water for spawning; especially of Atlantic coast)
smelt (small cold-water silvery fish; migrate between salt and fresh water)
haddock (lean white flesh of fish similar to but smaller than cod; usually baked or poached or as fillets sauteed or fried)
schrod; scrod (flesh of young Atlantic cod weighing up to 2 pounds; also young haddock and pollock; often broiled)
panfish (any of numerous small food fishes; especially those caught with hook and line and not available on the market)
stockfish (fish cured by being split and air-dried without salt)
anchovy (tiny fishes usually canned or salted; used for hors d'oeuvres or as seasoning in sauces)
eel (the fatty flesh of eel; an elongate fish found in fresh water in Europe and America; large eels are usually smoked or pickled)
gray mullet; grey mullet; mullet (highly valued lean flesh of marine or freshwater mullet)
alewife (flesh of shad-like fish abundant along the Atlantic coast or in coastal streams)
Meaning:
(astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Pisces
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Pisces; Fish
Hypernyms ("Fish" is a kind of...):
individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)
Domain category:
astrology; star divination (a pseudoscience claiming divination by the positions of the planets and sun and moon)
Meaning:
The twelfth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about February 19 to March 20
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
Pisces; Pisces the Fishes; Fish
Instance hypernyms:
house; mansion; planetary house; sign; sign of the zodiac; star sign ((astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided)
• FISH (verb)
Meaning:
Seek indirectly
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
fish; angle
Context example:
fish for compliments
Hypernyms (to "fish" is one way to...):
look for; search; seek (try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Meaning:
Catch or try to catch fish or shellfish
Classified under:
Verbs of fighting, athletic activities
Context example:
I like to go fishing on weekends
Hypernyms (to "fish" is one way to...):
catch; grab; take hold of (take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "fish"):
still-fish (fish with the line and bait resting still or stationary in the water)
trawl (fish with trawlers)
shark (hunt shark)
net fish (fish with nets)
shrimp (fish for shrimp)
angle (fish with a hook)
brail (haul fish aboard with brails)
rail (fish with a handline over the rails of a boat)
scallop; scollop (fish for scallops)
seine (fish with a seine; catch fish with a seine)
crab (fish for crab)
prawn (fish for prawns)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP
Sentence examples:
The men fish the area for animals
The men fish for animals in the area
