Fish

[fɪʃ]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) 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'.

(noun.) 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'.

(verb.) catch or try to catch fish or shellfish; 'I like to go fishing on weekends'.

(verb.) seek indirectly; 'fish for compliments'.

雨果錄入--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) A counter, used in various games.

(pl. ) of Fish

(n.) A name loosely applied in popular usage to many animals of diverse characteristics, living in the water.

(n.) An oviparous, vertebrate animal usually having fins and a covering scales or plates. It breathes by means of gills, and lives almost entirely in the water. See Pisces.

(n.) The twelfth sign of the zodiac; Pisces.

(n.) The flesh of fish, used as food.

(n.) A purchase used to fish the anchor.

(n.) A piece of timber, somewhat in the form of a fish, used to strengthen a mast or yard.

(v. i.) To attempt to catch fish; to be employed in taking fish, by any means, as by angling or drawing a net.

(v. i.) To seek to obtain by artifice, or indirectly to seek to draw forth; as, to fish for compliments.

(v. t.) To catch; to draw out or up; as, to fish up an anchor.

(v. t.) To search by raking or sweeping.

(v. t.) To try with a fishing rod; to catch fish in; as, to fish a stream.

(v. t.) To strengthen (a beam, mast, etc.), or unite end to end (two timbers, railroad rails, etc.) by bolting a plank, timber, or plate to the beam, mast, or timbers, lengthwise on one or both sides. See Fish joint, under Fish, n.

安塞姆校對

同義詞及近義詞：

v. n. Angle, BOB, try to catch fish.

贺拉斯校對

解釋/意思:

n. a vertebrate that lives in water and breathes through gills: the flesh of fish: a piece of wood fixed alongside another for strengthening:—pl. Fish or Fish′es.—v.t. to search for fish: to search by sweeping: to draw out or up: (naut.) to strengthen as a weak spar: to hoist the flukes of: to seek to obtain by artifice.—ns. Fish′-ball -cake a ball of chopped fish and mashed potatoes fried.—adj. Fish′-bell′ied swelled out downward like the belly of a fish.—ns. Fish′-carv′er a large flat implement for carving fish at table—also Fish′-knife Fish′-slice and Fish′-trow′el; Fish′-coop a square box with a hole in its bottom used in fishing through a hole in the ice; Fish′-creel an angler's basket a wicker-basket used for carrying fish; Fish′-day a day on which fish is eaten instead of meat; Fish′er one who fishes or whose occupation is to catch fish: a North American carnivore—a kind of marten or sable the pekan or wood-shock; Fish′erman a fisher; Fish′ery the business of catching fish: a place for catching fish; Fish′-fag a woman who sells fish; Fish′-garth an enclosure on a river for the preserving or taking of fish—also Fish′-weir; Fish′-god a deity in form wholly or partly like a fish like the Philistine Dagon; Fish′-hook a barbed hook for catching fish.—v.t. Fish′ify (Shak.) to turn to fish.—n. Fish′iness.—adj. Fish′ing used in fishery.—n. the art or practice of catching fish.—ns. Fish′ing-frog the angler-fish; Fish′ing-rod a long slender rod to which a line is fastened for angling; Fish′ing-tack′le tackle—nets lines &c.—used in fishing; Fish′-joint a joint or splice made with fish-plates; Fish′-kett′le a long oval dish for boiling fish; Fish′-ladd′er Fish′-way an arrangement for enabling a fish to ascend a fall &c.; Fish′-louse a name widely applied to any of the Copepod crustaceans which occur as external parasites both on fresh-water and marine fishes; Fish′-meal (Shak.) a meal of fish: abstemious diet; Fish′monger a dealer in fish; Fish′-pack′ing the process of packing or canning fish for the market; Fish′-plate an iron plate fitted to the web of a rail used in pairs one on each side of the junction of two rails; Fish′-pond a pond in which fish are kept; Fish′-sales′man one who receives consignments of fish for sale by auction to retail dealers; Fish′-sauce sauce proper to be eaten with fish as anchovy &c.; Fish′-scrap fish or fish-skins from which oil or glue has been extracted; Fish′-spear a spear or dart for striking fish; Fish′-strain′er a metal colander for taking fish from a boiler.—adj. Fish′-tail shaped like the tail of a fish.—ns. Fish′-torpē′do a self-propelling torpedo; Fish′-wife Fish′-wom′an a woman who sells fish about the streets.—adj. Fish′y consisting of fish: like a fish: abounding in fish: dubious as a story: equivocal unsafe.—ns. Bait′-fish such fish as are used for bait fish that may be caught with bait; Bott′om-fish those that feed on the bottom as halibut &c.—Fish for to seek to gain by cunning or indirect means; Fisherman's luck getting wet and catching no fish; Fisherman's ring a signet-ring with the device of St Peter fishing used in signing papal briefs.—A queer fish a person of odd habits; Be neither fish nor flesh or Neither fish flesh nor fowl to be neither one thing nor another in principle &c.; Have other fish to fry to have something else to do or to take up one's mind; Make fish of one and flesh (or fowl) of another to make invidious distinctions show undue partiality.

校對:米里亚姆