English Dictionary

fish

/fɪʃ/

verb

(intransitive) To hunt fish or other aquatic animals in a body of water. / (transitive) To search (a body of water) for something other than fish. / (fishing, transitive) To use as bait when fishing.

I love to fish on the weekends.

意味（1）

(intransitive) To hunt fish or other aquatic animals in a body of water.

We went fishing for crabs by the pier.

意味（2）

(transitive) To search (a body of water) for something other than fish.

They fished the surrounding lakes for the dead body.

意味（3）

(fishing, transitive) To use as bait when fishing.

What you need are frogs,' said the veteran.Fish them at night. There's nothing like them on big cork floats.'

意味（4）

(intransitive) To (attempt to) find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.

Why are you fishing through my things?

意味（5）

(intransitive, followed by "for" or "around for") To talk to people in an attempt to get them to say something, or seek to obtain something by artifice.

The detective visited the local pubs fishing around for more information.

意味（6）

(intransitive, cricket) Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.

意味（7）

(nautical, transitive) To repair (a spar or mast) by fastening a beam or other long object (often called a fish) over the damaged part (see Noun above).

[…] the crew were set to replacing and splicing the rigging and fishing the spars.

意味（8）

(nautical, transitive) To hoist the flukes of.

Found that the cause of the ship's having drifted on the night of the 19th, was from the bight of the chain span (used to fish the anchor,) having slipped between the shank and upper fluke, thereby preventing the lower fluke from opening […]