Fish

Tamil Dictionary definitions for Fish

Fish : மீன்பிடி

Fish : மீன்

Fish definition

Noun.

  1. A counter, used in various games.
  2. A name loosely applied in popular usage to many animals of diverse characteristics, living in the water.
  3. 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.
  4. The twelfth sign of the zodiac; Pisces.
  5. The flesh of fish, used as food.
  6. A purchase used to fish the anchor.
  7. A piece of timber, somewhat in the form of a fish, used to strengthen a mast or yard.

Plural. of Fish

Intransitive verb.

  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.

Transitive verb.

  1. To catch; to draw out or up; as, to fish up an anchor.
  2. To search by raking or sweeping.
  3. To try with a fishing rod; to catch fish in; as, to fish a stream.
  4. 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.