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Synonyms for fish

angle

look (for)

fish for something

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Synonyms for fish

to try to obtain something, usually by subtleness and cunning

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No one will bear the listening: what we found down there laying on the blue depth of the sea floor, instead of trawlers and men, were dozens of fishlike species never seen before.
A fish: he smells like a fish; a very ancient and fishlike smell; a kind of not-of-the-newest poor-john.
A dentist made a palliative excision of the nodule under local infiltration anesthesia and found much rotten fishlike discharge, which was confirmed as poorly differentiated carcinoma by histopathological and immunohistochemical (IHC) examinations, tending to be metastasized by HCC with positive hepatocyte paraffin 1 (Hep Par 1) and Villin, 80% positive Ki-67, focused weak positive cytokeratin 7 (CK 7), and negative AFP, CK 19, and CK 20 (Figures 3(a)-3(h)).
But that hasn't stopped scientists eager to explore the biomechanics of fishlike animals attempting to hop out of the water and up a slope.
[22.] Poly WJ (2008) Global diversity of fishlike (Crustacean: Branchiura: Argulidae) in freshwater.
The ones in the sea were called Progenitors and had lower fishlike bodies when in the sea but could morph to totally human form on land.
Check list of the fishes and fishlike vertebrates of North and Middle America north of the northern boundary of Venezuela and Colombia.
Swim Ultra-Efficient Freestyle!: The 'Fishlike' Techniques From Total Immersion By Terry Laughlin and Bob Fagan Kindle/148 pp, 2015
The book .deals with fish and fishlike organisms starting with cephalochordates, hagfishes, lampreys, cartilaginous fishes (including spookfishes) and "all the known teleosts" that occur in south Australian waters.
Although the evolutionary origins of fish and fishlike animals can be traced all the way back to the Cambrian Period (about 515 million years ago), those earliest primitive vertebrates were soft-bodied and lacked many of the features (including scales, bony bits, and jaws) that characterize the later fossil record.
Evermann, The fishes of North and Middle America: a descriptive catalogue of the species of fishlike vertebrates found in the waters of North America, north of the isthmus of Panama, p.
Hu, "Development of fishlike swimming behaviours for an autonomous robotic fish," in Proceedings of the Control Conference, vol.
As a small branch, extensive work on designing and controlling various bioinspired swimming robots has been done since the first fishlike robot, RoboTuna, was developed at MIT [2].
OSL will always be striving to make REMUS "more fishlike" in its algorithms and to improve acoustic communications, so that it can swim not only with the sharks, but like the sharks.
So, too, does his disease-resistant uncle, who is described as fishlike when he assures the Manager that disease will doom Kurtz: "I saw him extend his short flipper of an arm for a gesture that took in the forest, the creek, the mud ..." (54).