Fish vs. Horse

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:

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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

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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.

Horsenoun

Any of several animals related to Equus ferus caballus.

Horsenoun

A hoofed mammal, of the genus Equus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.

Horsenoun

(zoology) Any current or extinct animal of the family Equidae, including the zebra or the ass.

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Cavalry soldiers (sometimes capitalized when referring to an official category).

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The chess piece representing a knight, depicted as a horse.

Horsenoun

(slang) A large person.

Horsenoun

(historical) A timber frame shaped like a horse, which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.

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Equipment with legs.

Horsenoun

In gymnastics, a piece of equipment with a body on two or four legs, approximately four feet high, sometimes (pommel horse) with two handles on top .

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A frame with legs, used to support something.

Horsenoun

(nautical) Type of equipment.

Horsenoun

A rope stretching along a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling the sails; footrope.

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A breastband for a leadsman.

Horsenoun

An iron bar for a sheet traveller to slide upon.

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A jackstay.

Horsenoun

(mining) A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse (said of a vein) is to divide into branches for a distance.

Horsenoun

(slang) The sedative, antidepressant, and anxiolytic drug morphine, chiefly when used illicitly.

Horsenoun

(US) An informal variant of basketball in which players match shots made by their opponent(s), each miss adding a letter to the word "horse", with 5 misses spelling the whole word and eliminating a player, until only the winner is left. Also HORSE, H-O-R-S-E or H.O.R.S.E. (see H-O-R-S-E).

Horsenoun

A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination.

Horsenoun

horseplay; tomfoolery

Horsenoun

Heroin drug.

Horseverb

(intransitive) To frolic, to act mischievously. (Usually followed by "around".)

Horseverb

(transitive) To provide with a horse.

Horseverb

(obsolete) To get on horseback.

Horseverb

To sit astride of; to bestride.

Horseverb

(of a male horse) To copulate with (a mare).

Horseverb

To take or carry on the back.

Horseverb

To place on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, etc., to be flogged; to subject to such punishment.

Horsenoun

A hoofed quadruped of the genus Equus; especially, the domestic horse (Equus caballus), which was domesticated in Egypt and Asia at a very early period. It has six broad molars, on each side of each jaw, with six incisors, and two canine teeth, both above and below. The mares usually have the canine teeth rudimentary or wanting. The horse differs from the true asses, in having a long, flowing mane, and the tail bushy to the base. Unlike the asses it has callosities, or chestnuts, on all its legs. The horse excels in strength, speed, docility, courage, and nobleness of character, and is used for drawing, carrying, bearing a rider, and like purposes.

Horsenoun

The male of the genus Equus, in distinction from the female or male; usually, a castrated male.

Horsenoun

Mounted soldiery; cavalry; - used without the plural termination; as, a regiment of horse; - distinguished from foot.

Horsenoun

A frame with legs, used to support something; as, a clotheshorse, a sawhorse, etc.

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A frame of timber, shaped like a horse, on which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.

Horsenoun

Anything, actual or figurative, on which one rides as on a horse; a hobby.

Horsenoun

A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse - said of a vein - is to divide into branches for a distance.

Horsenoun

See Footrope, a.

Horsenoun

A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination; - called also trot, pony, Dobbin.

Horsenoun

heroin.

Horsenoun

horsepower.

Horseverb

To provide with a horse, or with horses; to mount on, or as on, a horse.

Horseverb

To sit astride of; to bestride.

Horseverb

To mate with (a mare); - said of the male.

Horseverb

To take or carry on the back; as, the keeper, horsing a deer.

Horseverb

To place on the back of another, or on a wooden horse, etc., to be flogged; to subject to such punishment.

Horseverb

To get on horseback.

Horsenoun

solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times

Horsenoun

a padded gymnastic apparatus on legs

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troops trained to fight on horseback;

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a framework for holding wood that is being sawed

Horsenoun

a chessman in the shape of a horse's head; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa)

Horseverb

provide with a horse or horses

Horsenoun

a large plant-eating domesticated mammal with solid hoofs and a flowing mane and tail, used for riding, racing, and to carry and pull loads.

Horsenoun

an adult male horse; a stallion or gelding.

Horsenoun

a wild mammal of the horse family.

Horsenoun

cavalry

Horsenoun

a frame or structure on which something is mounted or supported, especially a sawhorse.

Horsenoun

a horizontal bar, rail, or rope in the rigging of a sailing ship.

Horsenoun

short for vaulting horse

Horsenoun

a unit of horsepower

Horsenoun

heroin.

Horsenoun

an obstruction in a vein.

Horseverb

provide (a person or vehicle) with a horse or horses

Horse

The horse (Equus ferus caballus) is a domesticated one-toed hoofed mammal. It belongs to the taxonomic family Equidae and is one of two extant subspecies of Equus ferus.