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fish noun

  /fɘʃ/ , /fɪʃ/
  • (archaic, or, loosely) Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water.
  • (uncountable) The flesh of the fish used as food.
kala
  • (countable) A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
  • (zoology) A paraphyletic grouping of the following extant taxonomic groups:
etsintä, haku
  • (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.
etsintä, haku, hyppää järveen, kala, kalastus
  • (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.
kala, kalastus

fish verb

  /fɘʃ/ , /fɪʃ/
  • (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.
kalastaa, onkia, kalastella, kerjätä, naarata, penkoa

fishing noun

  /ˈfɪʃɪŋ/
  • (uncountable, informal) The act of catching other forms of seafood, separately or together with fish.
kalastus, kalastusurheilu, urheilukalastus
  • (uncountable) Commercial fishing: the business or industry of catching fish and other seafood for sale.
kalastus, kalatalous
  • (countable) A fishery, a place for catching fish.
apaja, kalapaikka, kalastusalue, kalavedet
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