Fish
Plural form of: FishSame as: brandlin, branlin, wormnoun — Plural: Fish, Fishes
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- (A cold blooded animal living wholly in water, a person, a sign of the zodiac, Pisces) មច្ជាជាតិ fresh water fish ត្រី (មច្ឆា)
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- (បច្ចេកទេស) ត្រី (មច្ឆា) មនុស្សដែលមិនរួសរាយសោះ
verb — past tense: fished ; past participle: fished ; present participle: fishing ;
- 1.
- (INTRANSITIVE) (to try to catch fish, to try to get something indirectly) He likes to fish ស្ទូចត្រី, fish for compliments ស្វែងរក, fish culture មច្ឆាវប្បកម្ម
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- (TRANSITIVE) ~ (for something) (to search for something in or under water or by reaching into something, to bring out or up in this way) fish a stream ស្ទូចត្រីក្នុង, fish a boot out of the water យកបាន
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- ស្ទួច, ស្វែងរក
ENGLISH MEANING
noun — Plural: Fish, Fishes
- 1.
- A counter, used in various games.
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- A name loosely applied in popular usage to many animals of diverse characteristics, living in the water.
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- 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.
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- The twelfth sign of the zodiac; Pisces.
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- The flesh of fish, used as food.
- 6.
- A purchase used to fish the anchor.
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- A piece of timber, somewhat in the form of a fish, used to strengthen a mast or yard.
verb — past tense: fished ; past participle: fished ; present participle: fishing ;
- 1.
- (INTRANSITIVE) To attempt to catch fish; to be employed in taking fish, by any means, as by angling or drawing a net.
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- (INTRANSITIVE) To seek to obtain by artifice, or indirectly to seek to draw forth; as, to fish for compliments.
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- (TRANSITIVE) To catch; to draw out or up; as, to fish up an anchor.
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- (TRANSITIVE) To search by raking or sweeping.
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- (TRANSITIVE) To try with a fishing rod; to catch fish in; as, to fish a stream.
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- (TRANSITIVE) 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.