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  • 71fish — [OE] Fish goes back to an ancient Indo European word *piskos, which produced on the one hand Latin piscis (source of French poisson, Italian pesce, Spanish pez, Breton pesk, and Welsh pysgodyn) and on the other Germanic *fiskaz (source of Gothic… …

    Word origins

  • 72fish- — many words have been combined with fish as a prefix or modifier. These words may, or may not, be hyphenated or joined. Often, but not always, the hyphenated word is an adjective; but frequently this is mis used. All variants may need to be… …

    Dictionary of ichthyology

  • 73fish — I Australian Slang 1. (surfing) type of wide surfboard with a swallow tail; 2. (with an adjective) a person: queer fish , poor fish II HIM A FISH Rasta Dictionary a gay person …

    English dialects glossary

  • 74fish — (fishes; finfish; scalefish) Literally, a vertebrate (animal with a backbone) that has gills and lives in water, but generally used more broadly to include any harvestable animal living in water ( fishes refers to more than one type of fish;… …

    Fisheries — dictionary

  • 75Fish — The fish was a symbol of the Lord Jesus Christ and Christians. The Greek letters of the word fish correspond to the initials of the words: Jesus Christ the Son of God, our Saviour. A secret sign used by the early persecuted Christians to… …

    Dictionary of church terms

  • 76FISH — Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization (Medical » Human Genome) * First In, Still Here (Computing » Databases) * Florida Inventory Of School Houses (Community » Educational) * Flourescence In Situ Hybridization (Medical » Oncology) * Friendly Instant …

    Abbreviations dictionary

  • 77FISH — First In Still Here, benutzt unter anderem in FISH queü (Parodie auf FIFO Queü), FISH mode oder FISHnet bzw. allgemein für einen stark verzögernden oder fehlerhaften Zustand in einem System …

    Acronyms

  • 78Fish —    The figure of a fish has been used from the very earliest days as a symbol in the Christian Church. Among the early Christians it was used as a secret sign by which they knew one another in the days of persecution. The significance of the fish …

    American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  • 79Fish — 1. (surfing) type of wide surfboard with a swallow tail; 2. (with an adjective) a person: queer fish , poor fish …

    Dictionary of Australian slang

  • 80FISH — First In Still Here, benutzt unter anderem in FISH queü (Parodie auf FIFO Queü), FISH mode oder FISHnet bzw. allgemein für einen stark verzögernden oder fehlerhaften Zustand in einem System …

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