Fish vs. Crab

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.

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(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.

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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.

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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;

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the flesh of fish used as food;

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

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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

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the zodiacal sign or constellation Pisces.

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

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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.

Crabnoun

A crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace.

Crabnoun

(uncountable) The meat of this crustacean, served as food; crabmeat

Crabnoun

A bad-tempered person.

Crabnoun

An infestation of pubic lice (Pthirus pubis).

Crabnoun

(slang) A playing card with the rank of three.

Crabnoun

(rowing) A position in rowing where the oar is pushed under the rigger by the force of the water.

Crabnoun

A defect in an outwardly normal object that may render it inconvenient and troublesome to use.

Crabnoun

The crab apple or wild apple.

Crabnoun

The tree bearing crab apples, which has a dogbane-like bitter bark with medical use.

Crabnoun

A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.

Crabnoun

A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.

Crabnoun

A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.

Crabnoun

A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.

Crabnoun

A claw for anchoring a portable machine.

Crabnoun

The tree species Carapa guianensis, native of South America.

Crabnoun

Short for carabiner.

Crabverb

(intransitive) To fish for crabs.

Crabverb

To ruin.

Crabverb

(intransitive) To complain.

Crabverb

(intransitive) To drift or move sideways or to leeward by analogy with the movement of a crab.

Crabverb

(transitive) To navigate (an aircraft, e.g. a glider) sideways against an air current in order to maintain a straight-line course.

Crabverb

, to fly slightly off the straight-line course towards an enemy aircraft, as the machine guns on early aircraft did not allow firing through the propeller disk.

Crabverb

(rare) To back out of something.

Crabverb

(obsolete) To irritate, make surly or sour

Crabverb

To be ill-tempered; to complain or find fault.

Crabverb

(British dialect) To cudgel or beat, as with a crabstick

Crabnoun

One of the brachyuran Crustacea. They are mostly marine, and usually have a broad, short body, covered with a strong shell or carapace. The abdomen is small and curled up beneath the body.

Crabnoun

The zodiacal constellation Cancer.

Crabnoun

A crab apple; - so named from its harsh taste.

Crabnoun

A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.

Crabnoun

A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.

Crabverb

To make sour or morose; to embitter.

Crabverb

To beat with a crabstick.

Crabverb

To drift sidewise or to leeward, as a vessel.

Crabadjective

Sour; rough; austere.

Crabnoun

decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers

Crabnoun

a quarrelsome grouch

Crabnoun

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

Crabnoun

the fourth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about June 21 to July 22

Crabnoun

the edible flesh of any of various crabs

Crabnoun

infests the pubic region of the human body

Crabnoun

a stroke of the oar that either misses the water or digs too deeply;

Crabverb

direct (an aircraft) into a crosswind

Crabverb

scurry sideways like a crab

Crabverb

fish for crab

Crabverb

complain;

Crab

Crabs are decapod crustaceans of the infraorder Brachyura, which typically have a very short projecting (abdomen) (Greek: βραχύς, romanized: brachys = short, οὐρά / οura = tail), usually hidden entirely under the thorax. They live in all the world's oceans, in fresh water, and on land, are generally covered with a thick exoskeleton, and have a single pair of pincers.