slovo | definícia |
fish (mass) | fish
- rybí, ryba |
fish (encz) | fish,bažant n: nezkušený člověk jose |
fish (encz) | fish,ryba n: |
fish (encz) | fish,Ryba n: člověk narozený ve znamení Ryby jose |
fish (encz) | fish,rybařit v: jose |
fish (encz) | fish,rybí adj: |
fish (encz) | fish,ryby n: Zdeněk Brož |
-fish (gcide) | Crawfish \Craw"fish`\ (kr[add]"f[i^]sh`), Crayfish \Cray"fish`\
(kr[=a]"f[i^]sh`), n.; pl. -fishes or -fish. [Corrupted
fr. OE. crevis, creves, OF. crevice, F. ['e]crevisse, fr.
OHG. krebiz crab, G. krebs. See Crab. The ending -fish
arose from confusion with E. fish.] (Zool.)
Any decapod crustacean of the family Astacid[ae] (genera
Cambarus and Cambarus), resembling the lobster, but
smaller, and found in fresh waters. Crawfishes are esteemed
very delicate food both in Europe and America. The North
American species are numerous and mostly belong to the genus
Cambarus. The blind crawfish of the Mammoth Cave is
Cambarus pellucidus. The common European species is
Astacus fluviatilis.
Syn: crawdad, crawdaddy.
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2. tiny lobsterlike crustaceans usually boiled briefly.
Syn: crawdad, ecrevisse.
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3. a large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace
but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters.
Syn: spiny lobster, langouste, rock lobster, crayfish, sea
crawfish.
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Fish (gcide) | Fish \Fish\ (f[i^]sh), n. [F. fiche peg, mark, fr. fisher to
fix.]
A counter, used in various games.
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Fish (gcide) | Fish \Fish\, n.; pl. Fishes (f[i^]sh"[e^]z), or collectively,
Fish. [OE. fisch, fisc, fis, AS. fisc; akin to D. visch,
OS. & OHG. fisk, G. fisch, Icel. fiskr, Sw. & Dan. fisk,
Goth. fisks, L. piscis, Ir. iasg. Cf. Piscatorial. In some
cases, such as fish joint, fish plate, this word has prob.
been confused with fish, fr. F. fichea peg.]
1. A name loosely applied in popular usage to many animals of
diverse characteristics, living in the water.
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2. (Zool.) An oviparous, vertebrate animal usually having
fins and a covering scales or plates. It breathes by means
of gills, and lives almost entirely in the water. See
Pisces.
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Note: The true fishes include the Teleostei (bony fishes),
Ganoidei, Dipnoi, and Elasmobranchii or Selachians
(sharks and skates). Formerly the leptocardia and
Marsipobranciata were also included, but these are now
generally regarded as two distinct classes, below the
fishes.
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3. pl. The twelfth sign of the zodiac; Pisces.
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4. The flesh of fish, used as food.
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5. (Naut.)
(a) A purchase used to fish the anchor.
(b) A piece of timber, somewhat in the form of a fish,
used to strengthen a mast or yard.
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Note: Fish is used adjectively or as part of a compound word;
as, fish line, fish pole, fish spear, fish-bellied.
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Age of Fishes. See under Age, n., 8.
Fish ball, fish (usually salted codfish) shared fine, mixed
with mashed potato, and made into the form of a small,
round cake. [U.S.]
Fish bar. Same as Fish plate (below).
Fish beam (Mech.), a beam one of whose sides (commonly the
under one) swells out like the belly of a fish. --Francis.
Fish crow (Zool.), a species of crow (Corvus ossifragus),
found on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It feeds
largely on fish.
Fish culture, the artifical breeding and rearing of fish;
pisciculture.
Fish davit. See Davit.
Fish day, a day on which fish is eaten; a fast day.
Fish duck (Zool.), any species of merganser.
Fish fall, the tackle depending from the fish davit, used
in hauling up the anchor to the gunwale of a ship.
Fish garth, a dam or weir in a river for keeping fish or
taking them easily.
Fish glue. See Isinglass.
Fish joint, a joint formed by a plate or pair of plates
fastened upon two meeting beams, plates, etc., at their
junction; -- used largely in connecting the rails of
railroads.
Fish kettle, a long kettle for boiling fish whole.
Fish ladder, a dam with a series of steps which fish can
leap in order to ascend falls in a river.
Fish line, or Fishing line, a line made of twisted hair,
silk, etc., used in angling.
Fish louse (Zool.), any crustacean parasitic on fishes,
esp. the parasitic Copepoda, belonging to Caligus,
Argulus, and other related genera. See Branchiura.
Fish maw (Zool.), the stomach of a fish; also, the air
bladder, or sound.
Fish meal, fish desiccated and ground fine, for use in
soups, etc.
Fish oil, oil obtained from the bodies of fish and marine
animals, as whales, seals, sharks, from cods' livers, etc.
Fish owl (Zool.), a fish-eating owl of the Old World genera
Scotopelia and Ketupa, esp. a large East Indian
species (K. Ceylonensis).
Fish plate, one of the plates of a fish joint.
Fish pot, a wicker basket, sunk, with a float attached, for
catching crabs, lobsters, etc.
Fish pound, a net attached to stakes, for entrapping and
catching fish; a weir. [Local, U.S.] --Bartlett.
Fish slice, a broad knife for dividing fish at table; a
fish trowel.
Fish slide, an inclined box set in a stream at a small
fall, or ripple, to catch fish descending the current.
--Knight.
Fish sound, the air bladder of certain fishes, esp. those
that are dried and used as food, or in the arts, as for
the preparation of isinglass.
Fish story, a story which taxes credulity; an extravagant
or incredible narration. [Colloq. U.S.] --Bartlett.
Fish strainer.
(a) A metal colander, with handles, for taking fish from a
boiler.
(b) A perforated earthenware slab at the bottom of a dish,
to drain the water from a boiled fish.
Fish trowel, a fish slice.
Fish weir or Fish wear, a weir set in a stream, for
catching fish.
Neither fish nor flesh, Neither fish nor fowl (Fig.),
neither one thing nor the other.
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Fish (gcide) | Fish \Fish\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fished; p. pr. & vb. n.
Fishing.]
1. To attempt to catch fish; to be employed in taking fish,
by any means, as by angling or drawing a net.
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2. To seek to obtain by artifice, or indirectly to seek to
draw forth; as, to fish for compliments.
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Any other fishing question. --Sir W.
Scott.
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Fish (gcide) | Fish \Fish\, v. t. [OE. fischen, fisken, fissen, AS. fiscian;
akin to G. fischen, OHG. fisc?n, Goth. fisk?n. See Fish the
animal.]
1. To catch; to draw out or up; as, to fish up an anchor.
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2. To search by raking or sweeping. --Swift.
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3. To try with a fishing rod; to catch fish in; as, to fish a
stream. --Thackeray.
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4. To strengthen (a beam, mast, etc.), or unite end to end
(two timbers, railroad rails, etc.) by bolting a plank,
timber, or plate to the beam, mast, or timbers, lengthwise
on one or both sides. See Fish joint, under Fish, n.
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To fish the anchor. (Naut.) See under Anchor.
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fish (wn) | fish
n 1: 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"
2: 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"
3: (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Pisces
[syn: Pisces, Fish]
4: the twelfth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from
about February 19 to March 20 [syn: Pisces, {Pisces the
Fishes}, Fish]
v 1: seek indirectly; "fish for compliments" [syn: fish,
angle]
2: catch or try to catch fish or shellfish; "I like to go
fishing on weekends" |
fish (foldoc) | fish
(Adelaide University, Australia) 1. Another {metasyntactic
variable}. See foo. Derived originally from the Monty
Python skit in the middle of "The Meaning of Life" entitled
"Find the Fish".
2. microfiche. A microfiche file cabinet may be
referred to as a "fish tank".
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fish (jargon) | fish
n.
[Adelaide University, Australia]
1. Another metasyntactic variable. See foo. Derived originally from the
Monty Python skit in the middle of The Meaning of Life entitled Find the
Fish.
2. A pun for microfiche. A microfiche file cabinet may be referred to as a
fish tank.
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fish (vera) | FISH
FIle transfer with a SHell, "FiSH"
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| podobné slovo | definícia |
crawfish (mass) | crawfish
- langusta |
creolefish (mass) | creole-fish
- Paranthias furcifer |
fisheries (mass) | fisheries
- oblasti rybolovu |
fisherman (mass) | fisherman
- rybár |
fishery (mass) | fishery
- rybolov |
fishhook (mass) | fish-hook
- rybársky háčik, udica |
jellyfish (mass) | jellyfish
- medúza |
selfish (mass) | selfish
- sebecký |
a different kettle of fish (encz) | a different kettle of fish,jiný adj: Zdeněk Broža different kettle of fish,odlišný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
angelfish (encz) | angelfish,druh ryby Zdeněk Brož |
babelfish (encz) | babelfish,babylónská rybka n: gorn |
bigger fish to fry (encz) | bigger fish to fry,mít na práci důležitější věci Zdeněk Brož |
blowfish (encz) | blowfish,čtverzubec n: Zdeněk Brož |
carangid fish (encz) | carangid fish, n: |
cardinalfish (encz) | cardinalfish, n: |
cartilaginous fish (encz) | cartilaginous fish, n: |
catfish (encz) | catfish,sumec n: Zdeněk Brož |
channel catfish (encz) | channel catfish, n: |
characin fish (encz) | characin fish, n: |
chenfish (encz) | chenfish, n: |
cichlid fish (encz) | cichlid fish, n: |
cigarfish (encz) | cigarfish, n: |
clingfish (encz) | clingfish, n: |
clinid fish (encz) | clinid fish, n: |
clown anemone fish (encz) | clown anemone fish, n: |
clupeid fish (encz) | clupeid fish, n: |
codfish (encz) | codfish,treska n: Zdeněk Brož |
codfish ball (encz) | codfish ball, n: |
codfish cake (encz) | codfish cake, n: |
cold fish (encz) | cold fish,studený čumák cold fish,studený jak psí čumák [fráz.] o člověku tatacold fish,suchar [fráz.] o člověku tata |
common blackfish (encz) | common blackfish, n: |
conchfish (encz) | conchfish, n: |
convict fish (encz) | convict fish, n: |
convictfish (encz) | convictfish, n: |
cool fish (encz) | cool fish,drzoun cool fish,vypečený ptáček |
copper rockfish (encz) | copper rockfish, n: |
cornetfish (encz) | cornetfish, n: |
cowfish (encz) | cowfish, n: |
crampfish (encz) | crampfish, n: |
crawfish (encz) | crawfish,langusta n: Zdeněk Brož |
crawfish out (encz) | crawfish out, v: |
crayfish (encz) | crayfish,rak n: Zdeněk Brož |
creole-fish (encz) | creole-fish, n: |
crucifix fish (encz) | crucifix fish, n: |
cutlassfish (encz) | cutlassfish, n: |
cuttlefish (encz) | cuttlefish,sépie n: [zoo.] Petr Prášek |
cyprinid fish (encz) | cyprinid fish, n: |
cypriniform fish (encz) | cypriniform fish, n: |
damselfish (encz) | damselfish, n: |
dealfish (encz) | dealfish, n: |
deepwater pipefish (encz) | deepwater pipefish, n: |
deepwater squirrelfish (encz) | deepwater squirrelfish, n: |
devilfish (encz) | devilfish,manta Zdeněk Broždevilfish,obrovský rejnok Zdeněk Broždevilfish,velká chobotnice Zdeněk Brož |
doctor-fish (encz) | doctor-fish, n: |
doctorfish (encz) | doctorfish, n: |
dogfish (encz) | dogfish,druh žraloka Jaroslav Šedivý |
dollarfish (encz) | dollarfish, n: |
dolphinfish (encz) | dolphinfish, n: |
driftfish (encz) | driftfish, n: |
drink like a fish (encz) | drink like a fish,pít jak duha n: Zdeněk Brož |
drumfish (encz) | drumfish, n: |
dwarf pipefish (encz) | dwarf pipefish, n: |
dwarfish (encz) | dwarfish,maličký adj: Zdeněk Broždwarfish,trpasličí Zdeněk Broždwarfish,zakrnělý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
dwarfishness (encz) | dwarfishness, n: |
efficiency and fisheries (encz) | efficiency and fisheries,efektivnost rybolovu [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
electric catfish (encz) | electric catfish, n: |
elfish (encz) | elfish,skřítčí Zdeněk Broželfish,skřítkovský adj: Zdeněk Broželfish,uličnický adj: Zdeněk Brož |
filefish (encz) | filefish, n: |
finfish (encz) | finfish,ryba n: Jan Kučera |
fish and chips (encz) | fish and chips, |
fish and company stink after three days (encz) | fish and company stink after three days, |
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