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# cod

«cod» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **a large sea fish with white flesh, eaten a lot as food…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a cod, cod; plural usually cod); adjective (cod — UK informal, fake)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A cod is a large sea fish with white flesh, eaten a lot as food, especially in fish and chips. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cod/#m1)

2) (UK, informal) «Cod» before a word means fake or pretend, not real: a cod accent, cod science. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cod/#m2)

3) COD (cash on delivery) means paying when goods are delivered, in some countries. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cod/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday British, Irish, Canadian and Australian life cod is the classic fish in fish and chips. In geography and science lessons, overfishing of cod is a famous example: the Atlantic cod near Newfoundland in Canada collapsed after too much fishing, showing why sustainable fishing matters. Cod liver oil is a vitamin supplement. Phrases: cod and chips, cod liver oil, Atlantic cod, the Cod Wars (UK and Iceland fishing quarrels).

### examples

- Barges''*) quotes, from the Paris Cod. 7()'2 the following passage, which occurs also in the Brit. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cod/#x1)
- Can I have cod and chips, please? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cod/#x2)
- Cod is a fish with flaky white flesh. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cod/#x3)
- Too much fishing made the cod disappear near Newfoundland. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cod/#x4)
- Grandma made us take cod liver oil in winter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cod/#x5)
- The fishermen caught three huge cod. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cod/#x6)
- (UK, informal) He put on a cod French accent to make us laugh. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cod/#x7)
- Britain and Iceland once argued about cod fishing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cod/#x8)
- Choose cod with a label saying it was caught sustainably. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cod/#x9)
- All good things go in threes, so Matte and his wife fished for salmon in spring, for herring in summer, and for cod in winter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cod/#x10)

### note

The plural is usually the same: one cod, ten cod (like «sheep»); «cods» is used for different kinds. Do not confuse with «COD» (cash on delivery) or the video game short name. «Cod» as «fake» is informal British use.

### In the corpora

- [Catch too many and there are not enough left to have babies, which is what happened to the cod off Canada.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/343-where-meat-and-fish-come-from-told-honestly/8/)
- [Cod-liver oil contains omega-3 fats and vitamins A and D, and was used in the past to prevent rickets.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/22-mums-vitamin-and-cod-liver-oil/8/)
- [Too much vitamin A can be harmful, so cod-liver oil should not be doubled up with other vitamin A supplements.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/22-mums-vitamin-and-cod-liver-oil/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cod» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cod/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.