Dagens Engelsk ord

fish

fisk

Definitioner

Engelsk > Engelsk

fish

1. n. A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.

Salmon is a fish.

The Sun Mother created all the fishes of the world.

The Sun Mother created all the fish of the world.

We have many fish in our aquarium.

2. n. (archaic, or loosely) Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water.

3. n. The flesh of the fish used as food.

The seafood pasta had lots of fish but not enough pasta.

4. n. A card game in which the object is to obtain cards in pairs or sets of four (depending on the variation), by asking the other players for cards of a particular rank.

5. n. (derogatory, slang) A woman.

6. n. (slang) An easy victim for swindling.

7. n. (poker slang) A bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player).

8. n. (nautical) A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish, used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.

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

10. n. (nautical) A torpedo.

11. n. (zoology) A paraphyletic grouping of the following extant taxonomic groups:

12. n. Class Myxini, the hagfish (no vertebra)

13. n. Class Petromyzontida, the lampreys (no jaw)

14. n. Within infraphylum Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates (also including Tetrapoda)

15. n. # Class Chondrichthyes, cartilaginous fish such as sharks and rays

16. n. # Superclass Osteichthyes, bony fish.

17. n. (cartomancy) The thirty-fourth Lenormand card.

18. n. A period of time spent fishing.

The fish at the lake didn't prove successful.

19. n. An instance of seeking something.

Merely two fishes for information told the whole story.

20. v. (intransitive) To hunt fish or other aquatic animals.

She went to the river to fish for trout.

21. v. To search (a body of water) for something other than fish.

They fished the surrounding lakes for the dead body.

22. v. (intransitive) To (attempt to) find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.

Why are you fishing through my things?

He was fishing for the keys in his pocket.

23. v. (intransitive, followed by "for" or "around for") To talk to people in an attempt to get them to say something.

The detective visited the local pubs fishing around for more information.

The actors loitered at the door, fishing for compliments.

24. v. (intransitive, cricket) Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.

25. v. (nautical) To repair a spar or mast by fastening a beam or other long object (often called a fish) over the damaged part (see Noun above).

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

Svenska > Engelsk

fisk

1. n-c. (zoology) fish

2. n-c. Pisces (star sign)

3. adv. (games) low placed (of a hidden hidden object)

(coord, fågel, mittemellan)

– Det börjar brännas. – Fågel, fisk eller mittemellan? - Bird, fish or in-between?

Uttal

Exempelmeningar

The cat made off with a piece of fish from the kitchen.
    Katten flydde med en bit fisk från köket.
Eat the fish as long as it is fresh; marry the daughter as long as she is young.
    Ät fisken medan den är fräsch, gift dig med dottern medan hon är ung.
Is eating fish good for you?
    Är det nyttigt för dig att äta fisk?

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