fish
1. any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills (Freq. 12)
- the shark is a large fish
- in the living room there was a tank of colorful fish
• Derivationally related forms:
fishy
• Hypernyms:
aquatic vertebrate
• Hyponyms:
bottom-feeder, bottom-dweller, bottom lurkers, cartilaginous fish, chondrichthian,
fingerling, game fish, sport fish, food fish, rough fish, young fish,
young fish, spawner, northern snakehead, bony fish, climbing perch,
Anabas testudineus, A. testudineus
• Member Holonyms:
school, shoal, Pisces
• Part Meronyms:
fish scale, roe, milt, lateral line, lateral line organ,
fin, tail fin, caudal fin, fishbone
2. the flesh of fish used as food (Freq. 3)
- 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
• Hypernyms:
food, solid food
• Hyponyms:
panfish, stockfish, anchovy, eel, mullet,
grey mullet, gray mullet, alewife, schrod, scrod, haddock,
hake, trout, rock salmon, salmon, shad, smelt
1. seek indirectly (Freq. 2)
- fish for compliments
• Syn:
angle
• Hypernyms:
search, seek, look for
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
2. catch or try to catch fish or shellfish (Freq. 1)
- I like to go fishing on weekends
• Derivationally related forms:
fisher, fishing, fishery
• Hypernyms:
catch, grab, take hold of
• Hyponyms:
crab, seine, scallop, scollop, rail,
brail, angle, shrimp, net fish, shark, trawl,
still-fish, prawn
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s PP
- The men fish the area for animals
- The men fish for animals in the area
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