fish
part of speech
noun (fish — one or many; fishes — many kinds); verb (fish, fishes, fished, fishing)
meaning for a pupil
1) A fish is an animal that lives and swims in water, breathes with gills and has fins. tree →
2) Fish is also the meat of fish that people eat. tree →
3) To fish means to try to catch fish. tree →
4) To fish for something is to search for it, like fishing in your bag for keys. tree →
sense in the lessons
maths: animals counted in tanks or caught; more added or sold (subtract); food per fish; the plural is usually also «fish»; science: gills, fins, scales, life in rivers and seas; everyday life: pet fish, fish and chips, going fishing; safety: wear a life jacket when fishing from a boat
examples
- There are 12 fish in the tank. tree →
- He caught 5 fish. tree →
- Each fish eats 2 pellets. tree →
- How many fish are left after 3 are sold? tree →
- Fish breathe through gills. tree →
- We had fish and chips for dinner. tree →
- Grandpa took me fishing at the lake. tree →
- She fished in her bag for a pen. tree →
- THE FISHERMAN AND THE LITTLE FISH tree →
note
Thing counted. Trap: «fish» is both one and many, so read the number. Whales and dolphins live in water but are not fish; they are mammals.
In the corpora
- A bottlenose dolphin has around 80 to 100 cone-shaped teeth, gets only one set for life, and swallows fish whole.
- Seal whiskers are so sensitive that a blindfolded seal followed a fish's water trail that was more than 30 seconds old.
- Many sharks are endangered because they grow slowly and have few young, and they keep oceans healthy by eating sick fish.
- The alligator snapping turtle lures fish with a pink worm-shaped flap on its tongue and then snaps its jaws shut.
- Fish have no eyelids, but many rest by slowing down and floating still; some parrotfish sleep in a bubble of slime.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «fish» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.