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# fish

«fish» in Mova's school dictionary: **an animal that lives and swims in water, breathes with…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fish/#m1)

2) Fish is also the meat of fish that people eat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fish/#m2)

3) To fish means to try to catch fish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fish/#m3)

4) To fish for something is to search for it, like fishing in your bag for keys. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fish/#m4)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fish/#x1)
- He caught 5 fish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fish/#x2)
- Each fish eats 2 pellets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fish/#x3)
- How many fish are left after 3 are sold? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fish/#x4)
- Fish breathe through gills. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fish/#x5)
- We had fish and chips for dinner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fish/#x6)
- Grandpa took me fishing at the lake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fish/#x7)
- She fished in her bag for a pen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fish/#x8)
- THE FISHERMAN AND THE LITTLE FISH [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fish/#x9)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/27-dolphins-porpoises-and-seals/9/)
- [Seal whiskers are so sensitive that a blindfolded seal followed a fish's water trail that was more than 30 seconds old.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/27-dolphins-porpoises-and-seals/17/)
- [Many sharks are endangered because they grow slowly and have few young, and they keep oceans healthy by eating sick fish.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/28-sharks/18/)
- [The alligator snapping turtle lures fish with a pink worm-shaped flap on its tongue and then snaps its jaws shut.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/31-turtles-and-tortoises/16/)
- [Fish have no eyelids, but many rest by slowing down and floating still; some parrotfish sleep in a bubble of slime.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/55-sleep-and-hibernation/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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