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fish noun

  /fɘʃ/ , /fɪʃ/
  • (archaic, or, loosely) Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water.
 peixe
  • (uncountable) The flesh of the fish used as food.
 peixe, peixes, cardume
  • (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.
 busca, pesca, pescaria, procura
  • (countable) A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
 busca, procura
  • Now used in combination: (e.g., starfish, cuttlefish, jellyfish, etc).
 cardume, peixes
  • (countable, slang) An easy victim for swindling.
 otário
  • (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.
 pesca, pescaria
  • (uncountable, slang, sometimes, derogatory, sometimes, positive) A (feminine) woman. (See also fishy.)
 rachada

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.
 pescar
  • (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.
 pescar, catar

fishing noun

  /ˈfɪʃɪŋ/
  • (uncountable, informal) The act of catching other forms of seafood, separately or together with fish.
 pesca, pescaria
  • (uncountable) Commercial fishing: the business or industry of catching fish and other seafood for sale.
 pesca
fish bowl
aquário
flying fish
peixe-voador
fish oil
sail, saim
food fish
pescado
fish tank
aquário
Siamese fighting fish
combatente
fish hook
anzol
electric fish
peixe-elétrico
fish trap
botirão, cobo, covo, guelricho, juquiá, munzuá
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