Betekenis van fish In het Nederlands

• 0 an animal that lives in water, is covered with scales, and breathes by taking water in through its mouth, or the flesh of these animals eaten as food:

  • Several large fish live in the pond.

  • Sanjay caught the biggest fish I've ever seen.

  • I don't like fish (= don't like to eat fish).

• 1 to try to find something, using your fingers to look for it:

  • She fished in her tool box for the right screwdriver.

  • The director was fishing for information about our strategy.

  • He's always fishing for compliments (= trying to make people say good things about him).

• 2 to catch fish from a river, sea, lake, etc., or to try to do this:

  • They're fishing for tuna.

  • The sea here has been fished intensely over the last ten years.

• 3 an animal without legs that lives in water, has a soft outer body, uses its tail and fins to help it swim, and takes in oxygen from the water:

  • [ C ] How many fish live in the pond?

  • [ U ] We had fish for dinner.

• 4 to to try to get something:

  • Chimpanzees use grass to fish around in termite nests.

  • We're trying to fish for some answers.

• 5 to try to catch fish:

  • We were fishing for tuna.