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Sounds | fih'sh |
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Rhymes | abolish, accomplish, admonish, and 155 more rhymes in ihsh at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | Any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills. |
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Examples | "the shark is a large fish"; "in the livingroom there was a tank of colorful fish" |
Member of | Pisces; school, shoal |
Parts | fish scale; roe; milt; lateral line, lateral line organ; fin; tail fin, caudal fin; fishbone |
Narrower | bottom feeder; cartilaginous fish, chondrichthian; fingerling; game fish, sport fish; food fish; rough fish; young fish; mouthbreeder; spawner; northern snakehead; bony fish; climbing perch, Anabas testudineus, A. testudineus |
Broader | aquatic vertebrate |
Adjectives | piscine |
Verbs | fish; fish |
Meaning | The flesh of fish used as food. |
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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" |
Narrower | panfish; stockfish; anchovy; eel; mullet, gray mullet; alewife; schrod, scrod; haddock; hake; trout; rock salmon; salmon; shad; smelt |
Broader | food |
Verbs | fish |
Meaning | (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Pisces. |
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Synonyms | Pisces |
Category | astrology, star divination |
Broader | person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, human, soul |
Meaning | The twelfth sign of the zodiac. The sun is in this sign from about February 19 to March 20. |
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Synonyms | Pisces, Pisces the Fishes |
Broader | sign of the zodiac, star sign, sign, mansion, house, planetary house |
Meaning | Seek indirectly. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s |
Examples | "fish for compliments" |
Synonyms | angle |
Broader | search, seek, look for |
Nouns | fish |
Meaning | Catch or try to catch fish or shellfish. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s PP |
Model | The men fish the area for animals; The men fish for animals in the area |
Examples | "I like to go fishing on weekends" |
Narrower | crab; seine; scallop, scollop; rail; brail; angle; shrimp; net fish; shark; trawl; still-fish; prawn |
Broader | catch, grab, take hold of |
Nouns | fish; fishing; fisher; fishery; fish; fishing |