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English noun: fish | |||
| 1. | fish (animal) any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills | ||
| Samples | The shark is a large fish. In the living room there was a tank of colorful fish. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | aquatic vertebrate | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | A. testudineus, Anabas testudineus, bony fish, bottom lurkers, bottom-dweller, bottom-feeder, cartilaginous fish, chondrichthian, climbing perch, fingerling, food fish, game fish, mouthbreeder, northern snakehead, rough fish, spawner, sport fish, young fish | ||
| Part holonym | caudal fin, fin, fish scale, fishbone, lateral line, lateral line organ, milt, roe, tail fin | ||
| Member meronym | Pisces, school, shoal | ||
| 2. | fish (food) the flesh of fish used as food | ||
| Samples | 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. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | food, solid food | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | alewife, anchovy, eel, gray mullet, grey mullet, haddock, hake, mullet, panfish, rock salmon, salmon, schrod, scrod, shad, smelt, stockfish, trout | ||
| 3. | Fish (person) (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Pisces | ||
| Synonyms | Pisces | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul | ||
| Domain category | astrology, star divination | ||
| 4. | Fish (location) the twelfth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about February 19 to March 20 | ||
| Synonyms | Pisces, Pisces the Fishes | ||
| Instance hypernym | house, mansion, planetary house, sign, sign of the zodiac, star sign | ||
English verb: fish | |||
| 1. | fish (contact) seek indirectly | ||
| Samples | Fish for compliments. | ||
| Synonyms | angle | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | look for, search, seek | ||
| 2. | fish (competition) catch or try to catch fish or shellfish | ||
| Samples | I like to go fishing on weekends. | ||
| Examples | The men fish the area for animals , The men fish for animals in the area | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s. Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s PP | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | catch, grab, take hold of | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | angle, brail, crab, net fish, prawn, rail, scallop, scollop, seine, shark, shrimp, still-fish, trawl | ||
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