Fishes

Word FISHES
Character 6
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations /ˈfɪʃɪz/

Definitions and meanings of "Fishes"

What do we mean by fishes?

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

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

The flesh of the fish used as food.

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.

A purchase used to fish the anchor.

A torpedo.

A paraphyletic grouping of the following extant taxonomic groups:

The thirty-fourth Lenormand card.

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The word "fishes" in example sentences

One is of the Miracle of the loaves and fishes from the top register of the nave wall (above the clerestory windows) of Sant 'Apollinare Nuovo, Ravenna, ca. 504. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Where Terry Jorgensen fishes is one of the only areas of deep water nearby. ❋ "AKMuckraker" (2010)

The containing group of jawed vertebrates and jawless fishes is vertebrata. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The collection, which focuses on North Pacific and Bering Sea fishes, is needed by researchers on and off campus to identify species and to understand fish biology and conservation. ❋ Unknown (2007)

And so doing he suffered exceeding hunger, so that he was forced to snatch up fishes from the surface of the sea and devour them raw, for stress of famine. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The melting point of the fluids within these polar fishes is - 0. 8°C, but the apparent freezing point (the temperature where ice begins to grow) is significantly lower. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Would you feel the same if, say, you were legally barred from displaying one of those cute little darwin fishes with feet on your desk if you have been elected to City Council? ❋ Unknown (2002)

What the grandmother called fishes were the little birds; the Princess could not understand them in any other way, for she had never seen a bird. ❋ Unknown (1909)

In his speech, the hunter does not chase the deer, but brings it before his gun by a magic power; the mystic fisher calls the fishes; the enchanted bullet finds its own game and needs only to be shot off; the tanner even lays a spell upon the water in his vat and makes it run up hill through a tube bent in a charm. ❋ Denton Jaques Snider (1883)

This passage of story, concerning Christ's feeding five thousand men with five loaves and two fishes, is recorded by all the four ❋ Unknown (1721)

I got a strange feeling that something fishes is going on with some secret advertising the public isn’t in the know of just yet. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Pete Bogs says: vote against Alito and you’ll be sleeping with the fishes, is that it? stfu, Hatch! you’re an assault weapon-loving, cult-participating hypocrite … ❋ Unknown (2005)

Thereupon the man repaired to the tarn and cast his net; and when he landed it, lo! four fishes were therein exactly like the first. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Egyptian name in the Zodiac or Denerah = Pi-cot Orion or Pisces Hori = the fishes that is to say, swarms or multitudes of Him Who cometh. ❋ Unknown (2006)

However, we are later told that he fed five thousand people from five loaves and two fishes, which is much the same thing. ❋ Lynn Picknett (2004)

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