The difference between Fish and Rummage
When used as nouns, fish means a cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills, whereas rummage means commotion.
When used as verbs, fish means to hunt fish or other aquatic animals, whereas rummage means to arrange (cargo, goods, etc.) in the hold of a ship.
check bellow for the other definitions of Fish and Rummage
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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.
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Rummage as a verb (transitive, nautical):
To arrange (cargo, goods, etc.) in the hold of a ship; to move or rearrange such goods.
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Rummage as a verb (transitive, nautical):
To search a vessel for smuggled goods.
Examples:
"After the long voyage, the customs officers rummaged the ship."
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Rummage as a verb (transitive):
To search something thoroughly and with disregard for the way in which things were arranged.
Examples:
"She rummaged her purse in search of the keys."
"The burglars rummaged the entire house for cash and jewellery."
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Rummage as a verb (intransitive):
To hastily search for something in a confined space and among many items by carelessly turning things over or pushing things aside.
Examples:
"She rummaged in the drawers trying to find the missing sock."
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Rummage as a noun (obsolete):
Commotion; disturbance.
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Rummage as a noun:
A thorough search, usually resulting in disorder.
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Rummage as a noun:
An unorganized collection of miscellaneous objects; a jumble.
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Rummage as a noun (nautical):
A place or room for the stowage of cargo in a ship; also, the act of stowing cargo; the pulling and moving about of packages incident to close stowage; formerly written romage.