any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills; 'the shark is a large fish'; 'in the ...the flesh of fish used as food; 'in Japan most fish is eaten raw'; 'after the scare about foot-and-mouth disease a lot of people started eating fish instead of meat'; 'they have a chef who specializes in fish' Pisces: (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Pisces seek indirectly; 'fish for compliments' Pisces: the twelfth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about February 19 to March 20 catch or try to catch fish or shellfish; 'I like to go fishing on weekends'
Fish as a food describes the edible parts of water-dwelling, cold-blooded vertebrates with gills. Other edible water-dwelling animals such as mollusks, crustaceans, and shellfish are classified as seafood, rather than as fish.
The FISH (FIbonacci SHrinking) stream cipher is a fast software based stream cipher using Lagged Fibonacci generators, plus a concept from the shrinking generator cipher. It was published by Siemens in 1993. FISH is quite fast in software and has a huge key length. ...
Fish are aquatic vertebrates that are typically cold-blooded; covered with scales, and equipped with two sets of paired fins and several unpaired fins. ...
Derek William Dick, better known as Fish (born 25 April 1958, in Dalkeith, Midlothian), is a Scottish progressive rock singer, lyric writer and occasional actor.
Fish was a spinoff television series of the sitcom Barney Miller. It starred Abe Vigoda as Detective Phil Fish and Florence Stanley as his wife Bernice. For a while, the character of Phil Fish continued to appear on Barney Miller as Vigoda headlined this program.
Fish (sometimes FISH) was the Allied codename for any of several German teleprinter stream ciphers used during World War II. While a large number of links were monitored, at least three different encryption systems were distinguished: *Tunny -- the Lorenz SZ 40 and SZ 42 from Lorenz Electric. ...
Fish was a BBC drama series of 2002, starring Paul McGann as an idealistic lawyer who specialised in industrial tribunals. In court, he often came up against a female lawyer, played by Jemma Redgrave. ...
FISh is an array programming language that aims to combine the expressive power of functional programming with the efficient execution of imperative (procedural) programming.
A poor poker player.
An inexperienced gambler. See also "pigeon."
A mapping technique that uses fluorescent tags to identify specific locations of chromosomes.
Fishes do not appear frequently in heraldry, and are rarely seen in the earlier coats. Among those used are:
Any object left in the wellbore during drilling or workover operations that must be recovered or drilled around before work can proceed.
an animal that lives in the water and has gills
Fluorescent In Situ Hybridisation. A method using fluorescently labeled probes to locate and identify whole chromosomes or regions of chromosomes.
the plural for one species of fish, or caught fish, is fish, but for live fish of many species, or in poetic usage, fishes is used.
a vertebrate that lives its whole life in water
non-sport species of fish that tolerate polluted water.
collective term (includes molluscs and crustaceans) for any aquatic animal that is harvested.
Cold-blooded, scaly animals from the Chordate Phylum. Fish live in water, breathe through gills, and move by swimming with fins. Most of them lay eggs in water. Some fish in our area include bass, bluegill, and catfish.
slang for a weak chess player
A splint for a broken or damaged spar.
A technique utilizing a fluorescent-labeled DNA probe to detect a particular chromosome or gene.
In situ hydridization is a sensitive method that is generally used to detect specific gene sequences in tissue sections or cell preparations by hybridizing the complementary strand of a nucleotide probe to the sequence of interest. ...
A technique that uses fluorescent molecules to locate the position of a DNA sequence along the chromosome.
Less sensitive than benthic algae (sea vegetables) as bioindicators, fish are an important indicator of the level of human consumption of radioactive contamination. ...
A physical mapping approach that uses fluorescein tags to detect hybridization of probes with metaphase chromosomes and with the less-condensed somatic interphase chromatin.
Any undersirable object accidentally lost in the wellbore which must be removed before drilling can continue.
Anything left in a wellbore. It does not matter whether the fish consists of junk metal, a hand tool, a length of drillpipe or drill collars, or an expensive MWD and directional drilling package. Once the component is lost, it is properly referred to as simply "the fish. ...
German teletype-like automatic encryption systems and devices.
Poker term for an easy or poor player who generally loses money easily.
a fish or any part there of, including shellfish (mussels, oysters, etc.) and crustaceans (shrimp, crawfish, etc.).
One of the Eight Buddhist symbols of good fortune. A pair of fish is a symbol of tenacity, domestic felicity, and fertility.
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