fish
noun
[ fɪʃ ]
• a limbless cold-blooded vertebrate animal with gills and fins living wholly in water.
• "the huge lakes are now devoid of fish"
• a person who is strange in a specified way.
• "he is generally thought to be a bit of a cold fish"
fish
verb
• catch or try to catch fish, typically by using a net or hook and line.
• "he was fishing for pike"
• search by groping or feeling for something concealed.
• "he fished for his registration certificate and held it up to the policeman's torch"
Similar:
search,
delve,
look,
hunt,
cast about,
cast round,
cast around,
grope,
ferret (about),
ferret (around),
root about,
root around,
rummage (about),
rummage (round),
rummage (around),
scrabble,
fumble,
seek,
look high and low,
Origin:
Old English fisc (as a noun denoting any animal living exclusively in water), fiscian (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch vis, vissen and German Fisch, fischen .
fish
noun
• a flat plate that is fixed on a beam or across a joint in order to give additional strength.
fish
verb
• mend or strengthen with a fish.
• join (rails in a railway track) with a fishplate.
Origin:
early 16th century: probably from French fiche, from ficher ‘to fix’, based on Latin figere .
