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Substantiivit

1. (countable) A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
2. (obsolete) A counter, used in various games.
3. (possibly archaic) Any animal that lives exclusively in water.
4. (uncountable) The flesh of the fish used as food.
5. (countable) A period of time spent fishing.
6. (countable) An instance of seeking something.
7. (uncountable) 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.
8. (uncountable, derogatory, slang) A woman.
9. (countable, slang) An easy victim for swindling.
10. (countable, poker slang) A bad poker player.
11. (countable, nautical) 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. (nautical) A purchase used to fish the anchor.
13. (countable, nautical) A torpedo.
14. (zoology) A polyphyletic grouping of the following extant taxonomic groups:
15. Class Myxini, the hagfish (no vertebra)
16. Class Petromyzontida, the lampreys (no jaw)
17. Within infraphylum Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates (also including Tetrapoda)
18. Class Chondrichthyes, cartilaginous fish such as sharks and rays
19. Superclass Osteichthyes, bony fish.

Verbit

1. (intransitive) To try to catch fish, whether successfully or not.
2. (transitive) To try to find something other than fish in (a body of water).
3. (intransitive) To attempt to find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.
4. (intransitive, followed by "around") To attempt to obtain information by talking to people.
5. (intransitive, cricket) Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.
6. (transitive, figuratively, followed by "for") To attempt to gain.
7. (nautical) To repair a spar or mast using a brace often called a fish (see NOUN above).