Dolphin vs. Fish

Dolphinnoun

A carnivorous aquatic mammal in one of several families of order Cetacea, famed for its intelligence and occasional willingness to approach humans.

Dolphinnoun

A fish, the mahi-mahi or dorado, Coryphaena hippurus, with a dorsal fin that runs the length of the body, also known for iridescent coloration.

Dolphinnoun

(heraldry) A depiction of a fish, with a broad indented fin, usually embowed.

Dolphinnoun

The dauphin, eldest son of the kings of France.

Dolphinnoun

(historical) A mass of iron or lead hung from the yardarm, in readiness to be dropped through the deck and the hull of an enemy's vessel to sink it.

Dolphinnoun

(nautical) A kind of wreath or strap of plaited cordage.

Dolphinnoun

(nautical) A spar or buoy held by an anchor and furnished with a ring to which ships may fasten their cables.

Dolphinnoun

A mooring post on a wharf or beach.

Dolphinnoun

A permanent fender around a heavy boat just below the gunwale.

Dolphinnoun

One of the handles above the trunnions by which a gun was lifted.

Dolphinnoun

(nautical) A man-made semi submerged maritime structure, usually installed to provide a fixed structure for temporary mooring, to prevent ships from drifting to shallow water or to serve as base for navigational aids.

Dolphinnoun

A cetacean of the genus Delphinus and allied genera (esp. Delphinus delphis); the true dolphin.

Dolphinnoun

The Coryphæna hippuris, a fish of about five feet in length, celebrated for its surprising changes of color when dying. It is the fish commonly known as the dolphin. The term is also applied to the related Coryphaena equisetis. Called also dolphinfish and (especially in Hawaii) mahimahi. See also dolphinfish and Coryphænoid.

Dolphinnoun

A mass of iron or lead hung from the yardarm, in readiness to be dropped on the deck of an enemy's vessel.

Dolphinnoun

A kind of wreath or strap of plaited cordage.

Dolphinnoun

In old ordnance, one of the handles above the trunnions by which a cannon was lifted.

Dolphinnoun

A small constellation between Aquila and Pegasus. See Delphinus, n., 2.

Dolphinnoun

large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (especially around Hawaii)

Dolphinnoun

any of various small toothed whales with a beaklike snout; larger than porpoises

Dolphin

Dolphin is the common name of aquatic mammals within the infraorder Cetacea. The term dolphin usually refers to the extant families Delphinidae (the oceanic dolphins), Platanistidae (the Indian river dolphins), named Iniidae (the New World river dolphins), and Pontoporiidae (the brackish dolphins), and the extinct Lipotidae (baiji or Chinese river dolphin).

Fishnoun

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

Fishnoun

Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water.

Fishnoun

(uncountable) The flesh of the fish used as food.

Fishnoun

(uncountable) 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.

Fishnoun

A woman.

Fishnoun

An easy victim for swindling.

Fishnoun

A bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player).

Fishnoun

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

Fishnoun

(nautical) A purchase used to fish the anchor.

Fishnoun

A torpedo.

Fishnoun

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

Fishnoun

Class Myxini, the hagfish (no vertebra)

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Class Petromyzontida, the lampreys (no jaw)

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Within infraphylum Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates (also including Tetrapoda)

Fishnoun

(cartomancy) The thirty-fourth Lenormand card.

Fishnoun

A period of time spent fishing.

Fishnoun

An instance of seeking something.

Fishnoun

(obsolete) A counter, used in various games.

Fishverb

(intransitive) To hunt fish or other aquatic animals.

Fishverb

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

Fishverb

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

Fishverb

To talk to people in an attempt to get them to say something.

Fishverb

Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.

Fishverb

(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).

Fishnoun

A counter, used in various games.

Fishnoun

A name loosely applied in popular usage to many animals of diverse characteristics, living in the water.

Fishnoun

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.

Fishnoun

The twelfth sign of the zodiac; Pisces.

Fishnoun

The flesh of fish, used as food.

Fishnoun

A purchase used to fish the anchor.

Fishverb

To attempt to catch fish; to be employed in taking fish, by any means, as by angling or drawing a net.

Fishverb

To seek to obtain by artifice, or indirectly to seek to draw forth; as, to fish for compliments.

Fishverb

To catch; to draw out or up; as, to fish up an anchor.

Fishverb

To search by raking or sweeping.

Fishverb

To try with a fishing rod; to catch fish in; as, to fish a stream.

Fishverb

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.

Fishnoun

any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills;

Fishnoun

the flesh of fish used as food;

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(astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Pisces

Fishnoun

the twelfth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about February 19 to March 20

Fishverb

seek indirectly;

Fishverb

catch or try to catch fish or shellfish;

Fishnoun

a limbless cold-blooded vertebrate animal with gills and fins living wholly in water

Fishnoun

the flesh of fish as food

Fishnoun

the zodiacal sign or constellation Pisces.

Fishnoun

used in names of invertebrate animals living wholly in water, e.g. cuttlefish, shellfish, jellyfish.

Fishnoun

a torpedo.

Fishnoun

a person who is strange in a specified way

Fishnoun

a flat plate that is fixed on a beam or across a joint in order to give additional strength.

Fishnoun

a long, slightly curved piece of wood that is lashed to a ship's damaged mast or spar as a temporary repair.

Fishverb

catch or try to catch fish, typically by using a net or hook and line

Fishverb

catch or try to catch fish in (a particular body of water)

Fishverb

search by groping or feeling for something concealed

Fishverb

try subtly or deviously to elicit a response or some information from someone

Fishverb

pull or take something out of water or a receptacle

Fishverb

mend or strengthen with a fish.

Fishverb

join (rails in a railway track) with a fishplate.

Fish

Fish are aquatic, craniate, gill-bearing animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish as well as various extinct related groups.