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Noun fish has 4 senses

fish - any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills; "the shark is a large fish"; "in the livingroom there was a tank of colorful fish"
--₁ is a kind of aquatic vertebrate
--₁ is a member of school, shoal; Pisces
--₁ has parts:

fish scale; roe; milt; lateral line, lateral line organ; fin; tail fin, caudal fin; fishbone

--₁ has particulars:

bottom feeder; cartilaginous fish, chondrichthian; fingerling; game fish, sport fish; food fish; rough fish; young fish; mouthbreeder; spawner; northern snakehead; bony fish; climbing perch, Anabas testudineus, A. testudineus

Derived forms: verb fish₂, verb fish₁

fish - 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"
--₂ is a kind of food
--₂ has particulars:
panfish; stockfish; anchovy; eel; mullet, gray mullet; alewife; schrod, scrod; haddock; hake; trout; rock salmon; salmon; shad; smelt

Derived form: verb fish₂
Pisces, Fish - (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Pisces
--₃ is a kind of person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, human, soul
Pisces, Pisces the Fishes, Fish - the twelfth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about February 19 to March 20
--₄ is a kind of sign of the zodiac, star sign, sign, mansion, house, planetary house

Verb fish has 2 senses

fish, angle - seek indirectly; "fish for compliments"
--₁ is one way to search, seek, look for

Derived form: noun fish₁
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
fish - catch or try to catch fish or shellfish; "I like to go fishing on weekends"
--₂ is one way to catch, grab, take hold of

Derived forms: noun fish₂, noun fish₁, noun fisher₁, noun fishing₂, noun fishing₁, noun fishery₁
Sample sentences:
The men fish the area for animals
The men fish for animals in the area