Collins English-English Dictionary

fish [fɪʃ]

1. 1. n tin fish - an informal word for torpedo

2. 2. n any of a large group of cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates having jaws, gills, and usually fins and a skin covered in scales: includes the sharks and rays (class Chondrichthyes: cartilaginous fishes) and the teleosts, lungfish, etc (class Osteichthyes: bony fishes)

3. 3. n (in combination)

   fishpond

4. 4. n any of various similar but jawless vertebrates, such as the hagfish and lamprey

5. 5. n [not in technical use] any of various aquatic invertebrates, such as the cuttlefish, jellyfish, and crayfish

6. 6. n the flesh of fish used as food

7. 7. n [informal] a person of little emotion or intelligence

   a poor fish

8. 8. n short for fishplate

9. 9. vi. [intr] to attempt to catch fish, as with a line and hook or with nets, traps, etc

10. 10. vt. [tr] to fish in (a particular area of water)

11. 11. vt. to search (a body of water) for something or to search for something, esp in a body of water

12. 12. vi. [intr; foll by for] to seek something indirectly

    to fish for compliments

13. 13. vi. See also fish out

14. 14. vi. [Etymology] Old English fisc; related to Old Norse fiskr, Gothic fiscs, Russian piskar, Latin piscis