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fishing noun

  /ˈfɪʃɪŋ/
  • (uncountable, informal) The act of catching other forms of seafood, separately or together with fish.
 Fischen, Fischerei, Fischfang
  • (uncountable) Commercial fishing: the business or industry of catching fish and other seafood for sale.
 Fischfang, Fischen

fish noun

  /fɘʃ/ , /fɪʃ/
  • (archaic, or, loosely) Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water.
  • Now used in combination: (e.g., starfish, cuttlefish, jellyfish, etc).
  • (uncountable) The flesh of the fish used as food.
 Fisch
  • (countable, nautical) A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish, used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.
 Fischzug
  • (uncountable) A card game in which the object is to obtain cards in pairs or sets of four (depending on the variation), by asking the other players for cards of a particular rank.
 Fischzug, Fisch

fish verb

  /fɘʃ/ , /fɪʃ/
  • (intransitive, transitive) To hunt fish or other aquatic animals in a body of water, or to collect coral or pearls from the bottom of the sea.
 fischen, angeln
  • (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.
 fischen
fishing rod
Angelrute, Angel
fishing line
Angelschnur, Angelleine
fishing net
Fischernetz, Fischnetz
fishing boat
Fischerboot
fishing pole
Angelrute
fly fishing
Fliegenfischen, Fliegenfischerei, Fliegenangeln, Flugangeln
ice fishing
Eisfischen
fishing hook
Angelhaken
fishing in troubled waters
im Trüben fischen
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