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

  1. Donkey as a noun:

    a domestic animal, , similar to a horse

  2. Donkey as a noun:

    a stubborn person

  3. Donkey as a noun:

    a fool

  4. Donkey as a noun (nautical):

    a small auxiliary engine, also called donkey engine

  5. Donkey as a noun (poker slang):

    a bad poker player

  1. 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."

  2. Fish as a noun (archaic, or, loosely):

    Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water.

  3. 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."

  4. 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.

  5. Fish as a noun (uncountable, derogatory, slang):

    A woman.

  6. Fish as a noun (countable, slang):

    An easy victim for swindling.

  7. Fish as a noun (countable, poker slang):

    A bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player).

  8. 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.

  9. Fish as a noun (nautical):

    A purchase used to fish the anchor.

  10. Fish as a noun (countable, nautical):

    A torpedo.

  11. 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.

  12. Fish as a noun (cartomancy):

    The thirty-fourth Lenormand card.

  1. Fish as a noun:

    A period of time spent fishing.

    Examples:

    "The fish at the lake didn't prove successful."

  2. Fish as a noun:

    An instance of seeking something.

    Examples:

    "Merely two fishes for information told the whole story."

  1. Fish as a verb (intransitive):

    To hunt fish or other aquatic animals.

    Examples:

    "She went to the river to fish for trout."

  2. 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."

  3. 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."

  4. 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."

  5. Fish as a verb (intransitive, cricket):

    Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.

  6. 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).

  1. Fish as a noun (obsolete):

    A counter, used in various games.