fish

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills

   the shark is a large fish

2. 2
   noun

   the flesh of fish used as food

   in Japan most fish is eaten raw

3. 3
   verb

   catch or try to catch fish or shellfish

   I like to go fishing on weekends

4. 4
   verb

   seek indirectly

   fish for compliments

5. 5
   noun

   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.

6. 6
   noun

   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.

7. 7
   noun

   The flesh of the fish used as food.

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

8. 8
   noun

   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.

Etymology

From Middle English fisch, from Old English fisċ (“fish”), from Proto-West Germanic *fisk, from Proto-Germanic *fiskaz (“fish”), from Proto-Indo-European *peysk- (“fish”). Cognates Cognate with Yola wish (“fish”), North Frisian fasch, fask, Fesk (“fish”), Saterland Frisian Fisk (“fish”), West Frisian fisk (“fish”), Cimbrian biss, visch, viss (“fish”), Dutch vis, visch (“fish”), Dutch Low Saxon, Mòcheno visch (“fish”), German Fisch (“fish”), German Low German Fösch (“fish”), Luxembourgish Fësch (“fish”), Yiddish פֿיש (fish, “fish”), Danish, Elfdalian, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swe…