Englisch > Deutsch | |
fish | |
1. Substantiv: | |
2. [1] Fisch | |
[1] The trout is a freshwater fish. | |
Die Forelle ist ein Süßwasserfisch. | |
3. Verb: | |
4. [1] Fische fangen | |
[1] He fishes with a fishing rod. | |
Er fischt mit einer Angel. | |
Englisch > Englisch | |
fish | |
1. subst. 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. subst. (archaic, or loosely) Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water. | |
3. subst. The flesh of the fish used as food. | |
The seafood pasta had lots of fish but not enough pasta. | |
4. subst. 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. subst. (derogatory, slang) A woman. | |
6. subst. (slang) An easy victim for swindling. | |
7. subst. (poker slang) A bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player). | |
8. subst. (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. subst. (nautical) A purchase used to fish the anchor. | |
10. subst. (nautical) A torpedo. | |
11. subst. (zoology) A paraphyletic grouping of the following extant taxonomic groups: | |
12. subst. Class Myxini, the hagfish (no vertebra) | |
13. subst. Class Petromyzontida, the lampreys (no jaw) | |
14. subst. Within infraphylum Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates (also including Tetrapoda) | |
15. subst. # Class Chondrichthyes, cartilaginous fish such as sharks and rays | |
16. subst. # Superclass Osteichthyes, bony fish. | |
17. subst. (cartomancy) The thirty-fourth Lenormand card. | |
18. subst. A period of time spent fishing. | |
The fish at the lake didn't prove successful. | |
19. subst. 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. subst. (obsolete) A counter, used in various games. | |
Deutsch > Englisch | |
Fisch | |
1. subst. fish (cold-blooded vertebrates living in water) | |
Wir haben jeder einen Fisch gefangen. - Each one of us has caught a fish. | |
Ob ein Wal ein Fisch ist, hängt von der Definition ab. - Whether a whale is a fish depends on the definition. | |
2. subst. fish (food) | |
Freitags essen viele Leute Fisch. - Many people eat fish on Fridays. | |