fish

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[ US /ˈfɪʃ/ ]
[ UK /fˈɪʃ/ ]

NOUN

any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills
the shark is a large fish
in the living room there was a tank of colorful 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

VERB

catch or try to catch fish or shellfish
I like to go fishing on weekends
seek indirectly
fish for compliments

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Lobefins today have dwindled to the lungfishes and the coelacanths ‘dwindled’ as ‘fish’, that is, but mightily expanded on land: we land vertebrates are aberrant lungfish. THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
They could have been classed as ship-rigged sloops-of-war and were built by Thomas Fishburn in 1770 at Whitby.
I chatter with enthusiasm whilst knobs of butter slide off the fishes' backs and sizzle to blister bubbles.
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I was a little miffed that we'd had such a poor fishing day. Times, Sunday Times
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They also caught a couple of large kingfish and many skipjack.
According to the EPA, fish at the top of the aquatic food chain bioaccumulate methylmercury to a level approximately 1 million to 10 million times greater than dissolved concentrations found in surrounding waters. Field and Stream Report: The Truth about Mercury and the Fish You Eat
I eat a lot of chicken and fish, rice and pasta and maintain an all-round healthy diet. Times, Sunday Times
I don't like swimming in the ocean that much either because the fact that all those fish have pinched a loave in there and it makes me a little squeezy. "It's okay to eat fish 'cause they don't have any feelings..."

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