Fish vs. Crab

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

Example: ‘Salmon is a fish.’; ‘The Sun Mother created all the fishes of the world.’; ‘The Sun Mother created all the fish of the world.’; ‘We have many fish in our aquarium.’;

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

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

Example: ‘The seafood pasta had lots of fish but not enough pasta.’;

(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.

A woman.

An easy victim for swindling.

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

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

(nautical) A purchase used to fish the anchor.

A torpedo.

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

Class Myxini, the hagfish (no vertebra)

Class Petromyzontida, the lampreys (no jaw)

Within infraphylum Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates (also including Tetrapoda)

(cartomancy) The thirty-fourth Lenormand card.

A period of time spent fishing.

Example: ‘The fish at the lake didn't prove successful.’;

An instance of seeking something.

Example: ‘Merely two fishes for information told the whole story.’;

(obsolete) A counter, used in various games.

(intransitive) To hunt fish or other aquatic animals.

Example: ‘She went to the river to fish for trout.’;

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

Example: ‘They fished the surrounding lakes for the dead body.’;

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

Example: ‘Why are you fishing through my things?’; ‘He was fishing for the keys in his pocket.’;

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

Example: ‘The detective visited the local pubs fishing around for more information.’; ‘The actors loitered at the door, fishing for compliments.’;

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

(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).

A counter, used in various games.

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

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.

The twelfth sign of the zodiac; Pisces.

The flesh of fish, used as food.

A purchase used to fish the anchor.

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

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

Example: ‘Any other fishing question.’;

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

To search by raking or sweeping.

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

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.

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

Example: ‘the shark is a large fish’; ‘in the livingroom there was a tank of colorful fish’;

the flesh of fish used as food;

Example: ‘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’;

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

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

seek indirectly;

Example: ‘fish for compliments’;

catch or try to catch fish or shellfish;

Example: ‘I like to go fishing on weekends’;

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

Example: ‘the huge lakes are now devoid of fish’;

the flesh of fish as food

Example: ‘a dinner of meat, dried fish, and bread’;

the zodiacal sign or constellation Pisces.

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

a torpedo.

a person who is strange in a specified way

Example: ‘he is generally thought to be a bit of a cold fish’;

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

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

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

Example: ‘he was fishing for pike’; ‘I've told the girls we've gone fishing’;

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

Example: ‘many of the lochs we used to fish are now affected by forestry’;

search by groping or feeling for something concealed

Example: ‘he fished for his registration certificate and held it up to the policeman's torch’;

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

Example: ‘I was not fishing for compliments’;

pull or take something out of water or a receptacle

Example: ‘the body of a woman had been fished out of the river’;

mend or strengthen with a fish.

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

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.

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

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

A bad-tempered person.

An infestation of pubic lice (Pthirus pubis).

Example: ‘Although crabs themselves are an easily treated inconvenience, the patient and his partner(s) clearly run major STD risks.’;

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

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

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

The crab apple or wild apple.

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

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

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

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

A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.

A claw for anchoring a portable machine.

The tree species Carapa guianensis, native of South America.

Short for carabiner.

(intransitive) To fish for crabs.

To ruin.

(intransitive) To complain.

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

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

, 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.

(rare) To back out of something.

(obsolete) To irritate, make surly or sour

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

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

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.

The zodiacal constellation Cancer.

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

Example: ‘When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl,Then nightly sings the staring owl.’;

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

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

To make sour or morose; to embitter.

Example: ‘Sickness sours or crabs our nature.’;

To beat with a crabstick.

To drift sidewise or to leeward, as a vessel.

Sour; rough; austere.

Example: ‘The crab vintage of the neighb'ring coast.’;

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

a quarrelsome grouch

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

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

the edible flesh of any of various crabs

infests the pubic region of the human body

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

Example: ‘he caught a crab and lost the race’;

direct (an aircraft) into a crosswind

scurry sideways like a crab

fish for crab

complain;

Example: ‘What was he hollering about?’;

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.

Example: ‘tail’;