fishing
noun
/ˈfɪʃɪŋ/
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- (uncountable, informal) The act of catching other forms of seafood, separately or together with fish.
- (uncountable) Commercial fishing: the business or industry of catching fish and other seafood for sale.
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pêche
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fish
noun
/fɘʃ/
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/fɪʃ/
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- (archaic, or, loosely) Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water.
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poisson
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- Now used in combination: (e.g., starfish, cuttlefish, jellyfish, etc).
- (uncountable) The flesh of the fish used as food.
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poisson,
poissons
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- (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.
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pêche
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- (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.
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pêche,
poisson
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fish
verb
/fɘʃ/
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/fɪʃ/
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- (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.
- (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.
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pêcher
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