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Look up: fish

  1. Fish
    see 'pisces'
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/nol.php

  2. Fish
    Fish is Black-American slang for 'a woman'
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/nol.php

  3. Fish
    A simple object in Conway's Game of Life that swims vertically or horizontally.
    Found on http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/FLAOH/cbnh

  4. Fish
    Meaning as a surname: Catcher or seller of fish.
    Found on http://www.nameseekers.co.uk/surname.htm

  5. fish
    [n] - the flesh of fish used as food 2. [n] - any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills 3. [v] - seek indirectly 4. [v] - catch or try to catch fish or shellfish
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  6. Fish
    Vertebrate with wet scales.
    Found on http://www.longman.co.uk/tt_secsci/resou

  7. Fish
    The thing we try to catch when we go out beach casting. Species we target include: cod, bass, whiting, billet, coalfish, pollock, wrasse, dogfish
    Found on http://www.whitbyseaanglers.co.uk/rock-f

  8. fish
    an object that is left in the wellbore during drilling or workover operations and that must be recovered before work can proceed. It can be anything. 1. to recover from a well any equipment left there during drilling operations, such as a lost bit or drill collar or part of the drill string. 2. to remove from an older well certain pieces of equipment (such as packers, liners, or screen liner) to allow reconditioning of the well.
    Found on http://www.workover.co.uk/og/f.htm

  9. fish
    In the early times, fish was rarely consumed by the Romans. However, from the time of Augustus, fish, a very expensive item, became a daily item in the diets of the most wealthy and rich men, such as the wealthy nephew, Hirrus, of Pompey, built fishponds to breed their own fish. Salt fish, imported from most Mediterranean harbours, were cheap. A co...
    Found on http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/temetfutue/gl

  10. Fish
    collective term (includes molluscs and crustaceans) for any aquatic animal that is harvested.
    Found on http://www.fishonline.org/information/gl

  11. 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. (storage) microfiche. A microfiche file cabinet may be referred to as a 'fish tank'. [Jargon File] (1994-12-01)
    Found on http://foldoc.org/

  12. FISH
    FISH: Abbreviation for fluorescence in situ hybridization, a molecular technique used in chromosome studies. FISH employs fluorescent (fluorescein tags) that glow under ultraviolet light to detect the hybridization (the combination) of molecular probes with specific chromosomes and specific chromosome regions. In FISH, the process vividly paints ch ...
    Found on http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.

  13. fish
    the article recovered and/or the act or processes involved in the recovery of lost drilling tools,casing,or other articles from a borehole Category: Mining • any of numerous cold-blooded strictly aquatic waterbreathing craniate vertebrates Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  14. Fish
    Fish noun [ French fiche peg, mark, from fisher to fix.] A counter, used in various games.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/F/33

  15. Fish
    Fish noun ; plural Fishes , or collectively , Fish . [ Middle English fisch , fisc , fis , Anglo-Saxon fisc ; akin to Dutch visch , Old Saxon & Old High German fisk , German fisch , Icelandic fiskr , Swedish & Danish fisk , Goth. fisks , Latin piscis , Ir. iasg . Confer Pisca ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/F/34

  16. Fish
    Fish intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Fished ; present participle & verbal noun Fishing .] 1. To attempt to catch fish; to be employed in taking fish, by any means, as by angling or drawing a net. 2. To seek to obtain by artifice, or indirectly to seek to draw forth; as, to fish for compliments. & ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/F/34

  17. Fish
    Fish transitive verb [ Middle English fischen , fisken , fissen , Anglo-Saxon fiscian ; akin to German fischen , Old High German fisc...n , Goth. fisk...n . See Fish the animal.] 1. To catch; to draw out or up; as, to fish up an anchor. 2. To search by raking or sweeping. Swift. 3. To try with a fi ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/F/34

  18. fish
    A physical mappingapproach that uses fluorescent tags to detect hybridisation of probes with metaphasechromosomes and with the less-condensed somatic interphase chromatin. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  19. fish
    noun 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`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  20. fish
    noun 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`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  21. fish
    angle verb seek indirectly; `fish for compliments`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  22. fish
    verb catch or try to catch fish or shellfish; `I like to go fishing on weekends`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  23. Fish
    `Fish` are aquatic vertebrates that are cold-blooded, covered with scales, and equipped with two sets of paired fins and several unpaired fins. Fish are abundant in the sea and in fresh water, with species being known from mountain streams (e.g., char and gudgeon) as well as in the deepest depths of the ocean (e.g., gulpers and anglerfish). They are of tremendous importance as food for people around the world, either collected from the wild (see ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish

  24. FISH
    fluorescence in situ hybridization.
    Found on http://www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns

  25. Fish
    • (v. i.) To seek to obtain by artifice, or indirectly to seek to draw forth; as, to fish for compliments. • (n.) The twelfth sign of the zodiac; Pisces. • (v. t.) To catch; to draw out or up; as, to fish up an anchor. • (n.) A piece of timber, somewhat in the form of a fish, used to strengthen a mast or yard. • (n.) An ovi...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning


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