The difference between Donkey and Fish
When used as nouns, donkey means a domestic animal, , similar to a horse, whereas fish means a cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
Fish is also verb with the meaning: to hunt fish or other aquatic animals.
check bellow for the other definitions of Donkey and Fish
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Donkey as a noun:
a domestic animal, , similar to a horse
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Donkey as a noun:
a stubborn person
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Donkey as a noun:
a fool
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Donkey as a noun (nautical):
a small auxiliary engine, also called donkey engine
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Donkey as a noun (poker slang):
a bad poker player
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Fish as a noun (countable):
A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
Examples:
"Salmon is a fish."
"The Sun Mother created all the fishes of the world."
"The Sun Mother created all the fish of the world."
"We have many fish in our aquarium."
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Fish as a noun (archaic, or, loosely):
Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water.
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Fish as a noun (uncountable):
The flesh of the fish used as food.
Examples:
"The seafood pasta had lots of fish but not enough pasta."
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Fish as a noun (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.
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Fish as a noun (uncountable, derogatory, slang):
A woman.
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Fish as a noun (countable, slang):
An easy victim for swindling.
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Fish as a noun (countable, poker slang):
A bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player).
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Fish as a noun (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.
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Fish as a noun (nautical):
A purchase used to fish the anchor.
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Fish as a noun (countable, nautical):
A torpedo.
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Fish as a noun (zoology):
A paraphyletic grouping of the following extant taxonomic groups: Class Myxini, the hagfish (no vertebra) Class Petromyzontida, the lampreys (no jaw) Within infraphylum Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates (also including Tetrapoda) # Class Chondrichthyes, cartilaginous fish such as sharks and rays # Superclass Osteichthyes, bony fish.
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Fish as a noun (cartomancy):
The thirty-fourth Lenormand card.
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Fish as a noun:
A period of time spent fishing.
Examples:
"The fish at the lake didn't prove successful."
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Fish as a noun:
An instance of seeking something.
Examples:
"Merely two fishes for information told the whole story."
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Fish as a verb (intransitive):
To hunt fish or other aquatic animals.
Examples:
"She went to the river to fish for trout."
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Fish as a verb (transitive):
To search (a body of water) for something other than fish.
Examples:
"They fished the surrounding lakes for the dead body."
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Fish as a verb (intransitive):
To (attempt to) find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.
Examples:
"Why are you fishing through my things?"
"He was fishing for the keys in his pocket."
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Fish as a verb (intransitive, followed by "for" or "around for"):
To talk to people in an attempt to get them to say something.
Examples:
"The detective visited the local pubs fishing around for more information."
"The actors loitered at the door, fishing for compliments."
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Fish as a verb (intransitive, cricket):
Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.
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Fish as a verb (nautical):
To repair a spar or mast by fastening a beam or other long object (often called a fish) over the damaged part (see Noun above).
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Fish as a noun (obsolete):
A counter, used in various games.