Synonyms for fish
fɪʃfish

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1. fishnoun

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

   "the shark is a large fish"; "in the living room there was a tank of colorful fish"

2. fishnoun

   the flesh of fish used as food

   "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"

3. Pisces, Fishnoun

   (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Pisces

4. Pisces, Pisces the Fishes, Fishverb

   the twelfth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about February 19 to March 20

5. fish, angleverb

   seek indirectly

   "fish for compliments"

   Synonyms:
   tip, slant, lean, angle, tilt, weight

6. fishverb

   catch or try to catch fish or shellfish

   "I like to go fishing on weekends"

   Synonyms:
   angle

Matched Categories

1. • Aquatic Vertebrate
   • Astrology
   • Catch
   • Food
   • Person

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. fishverb

   Synonyms:
   ANGLE, BOB, try to catch fish

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1. fishnoun

   Synonyms:
   fry, alevin (young fish), ichthyolite, monilife

2. fishverb

   Synonyms:
   angle, trawl, troll, poach (fish unlawfully)

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1. List of paraphrases for "fish":

   fishes, poisson, finfish, fish, fishing, fishery, poissons, pez, fisheries, pisces, piscine, goldfish, vis, rib, fishies, fishy, hal, catch, vascular

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1. List of known nicknames for "Fish":

   Derek William Dick, Marillion, Derek Dick

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How to use fish in a sentence?

1. John Paul:

   Genetically, only .02 percent of imported fish is analyzed.

2. Benjamin Franklin:

   Fish and visitors smell in three days.

3. Jin Dongyan:

   It is 100 or 1,000 times more possible that these fishermen got infected by other fishermen. There's no evidence that the fish can transmit the virus.

4. Victoria Elena Vasquez:

   We’re not totally sure what this one is eating but other lantersharks are eating smaller fish, crustaceans, it’s likely that it’s eating the same things or something similar.

5. John Long:

   I think it is a highly significant discovery, as the origin and diversificationof modern bony-jawed fishesis still shrouded in mystery, but Janiusiscus takes us abig step closer to really understandingthis major evolutionary transition, from primitive jawed fishes to the beginning of themodern jawed fish fauna.