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Fish can be an adjective, a verb or a noun.

fish used as an adjective:

  1. Of or relating to fish.
    "It was a fine fish dinner."
  2. Resembling a biological woman.
    "Girl, yo chick was lookin fish tonight."

Adjectives are are describing words. An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun (examples: small, scary, silly). Adjectives make the meaning of a noun more precise. Learn more →

fish used as a verb:

  1. To try to catch fish, whether successfully or not.
    "She went to the river to fish for trout."
  2. To try to catch fish, or to find something else, in (a body of water).
    "They fished the surrounding lakes for the dead body."
  3. To attempt to find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.
    "Why are you fishing through my things?"
  4. To attempt to obtain information by talking to people.
    "The detective visited the local pubs fishing around for more information."
  5. Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.
  6. To attempt to get hold of (an object) that is among other objects.
    "He was fishing for the keys in his pocket."
  7. To attempt to gain.
    "The actors loitered at the door, fishing for compliments."
  8. To repair a spar or mast using a brace often called a fish (see NOUN above).

Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →

fish used as a noun:

  1. A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
    "Salmon is a fish."

  2. "We have many fish in our aquarium."
  3. Any vertebrate that lives in water and cannot live outside it.
  4. The flesh of the fish used as food.
    "The seafood pasta had lots of fish but not enough pasta."
  5. A period of time spent fishing.
    "The fish at the lake didn't prove successful."
  6. An instance of seeking something.
    "Merely two fishes for information told the whole story."
  7. A card game in which the object is to obtain pairs of cards.
  8. Women.
  9. An easy victim for swindling.
  10. A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.
  11. Torpedo

Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →

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What type of word is fish?

As detailed above, 'fish' can be an adjective, a verb or a noun. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Adjective usage: It was a fine fish dinner.
  2. Adjective usage: Girl, yo chick was lookin fish tonight.
  3. Verb usage: She went to the river to fish for trout.
  4. Verb usage: They fished the surrounding lakes for the dead body.
  5. Verb usage: Why are you fishing through my things?
  6. Verb usage: The detective visited the local pubs fishing around for more information.
  7. Verb usage: He was fishing for the keys in his pocket.
  8. Verb usage: The actors loitered at the door, fishing for compliments.
  9. Noun usage: Salmon is a fish.
  10. Noun usage: God created all the fishes of the world.
  11. Noun usage: We have many fish in our aquarium.
  12. Noun usage: The seafood pasta had lots of fish but not enough pasta.
  13. Noun usage: The fish at the lake didn't prove successful.
  14. Noun usage: Merely two fishes for information told the whole story.

Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of fish are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of fish, and guess at its most common usage.

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The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.

Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.

Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).

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