Goat vs. Fish
Difference Between Goat and Fish
Goatnoun
A domesticated ruminant mammal (Capra hircus) having backward curving horns and a beard especially in the male, raised for its wool, milk, and meat.
Fishnoun
Any of numerous cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates characteristically having fins, gills, and a streamlined body and including the bony fishes, such as catfishes and tunas, and the cartilaginous fishes, such as sharks and rays.
Goatnoun
Any of various wild ruminant mammals of the genus Capra and related genera, including the ibexes and the wild goat (C. aegagrus) of Eurasia.
Fishnoun
Any of various jawless aquatic craniates, including the lampreys and hagfishes.
Goatnoun
A lecherous man.
Fishnoun
The flesh of such animals used as food.
Goatnoun
A person who is blamed for a failure or misfortune, especially a scapegoat.
Fishnoun
(Informal) A person, especially one considered deficient in something
a poor fish.Goatnoun
See Capricorn.
Fishverb
To catch or try to catch fish.
Goatnoun
See Capricornus.
Fishverb
To look for something by feeling one's way; grope
fished in both pockets for a coin.Goatnoun
A mammal, Capra aegagrus hircus, and similar species of the genus Capra.
Fishverb
To seek something in a sly or indirect way
fish for compliments.Goatnoun
(slang) A lecherous man.
Fishverb
To catch or try to catch (fish).
Goatnoun
(informal) A scapegoat.
Fishverb
To catch or try to catch fish in
fish mountain streams.Goatnoun
(slang) A Pontiac GTO car.
Fishverb
To catch or pull as if fishing
deftly fished the corn out of the boiling water.Goatnoun
(speech recognition) A person who is not easily understood by a speech recognition system; contrasted with sheep.
Fishnoun
(countable) A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
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.Goatverb
(transitive) To allow goats to feed on.
Fishnoun
Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water.
Goatverb
(transitive) To scapegoat.
Fishnoun
(uncountable) The flesh of the fish used as food.
The seafood pasta had lots of fish but not enough pasta.Goatnoun
any of numerous agile ruminants related to sheep but having a beard and straight horns
Fishnoun
(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.
Goatnoun
a victim of ridicule or pranks
Fishnoun
A woman.
Goatnoun
(astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Capricorn
Fishnoun
An easy victim for swindling.
Goatnoun
the tenth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about December 22 to January 19
Fishnoun
A bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player).
Fishnoun
A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish, used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.
Fishnoun
(nautical) A purchase used to fish the anchor.
Fishnoun
A torpedo.
Fishnoun
(zoology) A paraphyletic grouping of the following extant taxonomic groups:
Fishnoun
Class Myxini, the hagfish (no vertebra)
Fishnoun
Class Petromyzontida, the lampreys (no jaw)
Fishnoun
Within infraphylum Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates (also including Tetrapoda)
Fishnoun
(cartomancy) The thirty-fourth Lenormand card.
Fishnoun
A period of time spent fishing.
The fish at the lake didn't prove successful.Fishnoun
An instance of seeking something.
Merely two fishes for information told the whole story.Fishnoun
(obsolete) A counter, used in various games.
Fishverb
(intransitive) To hunt fish or other aquatic animals.
She went to the river to fish for trout.Fishverb
(transitive) To search (a body of water) for something other than fish.
They fished the surrounding lakes for the dead body.Fishverb
(intransitive) To (attempt to) find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.
Why are you fishing through my things?He was fishing for the keys in his pocket.Fishverb
To talk to people in an attempt to get them to say something.
The detective visited the local pubs fishing around for more information.The actors loitered at the door, fishing for compliments.Fishverb
Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.
Fishverb
(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).
Fishnoun
any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills;
the shark is a large fishin the livingroom there was a tank of colorful fishFishnoun
the flesh of fish used as food;
in Japan most fish is eaten rawafter the scare about foot-and-mouth disease a lot of people started eating fish instead of meatthey have a chef who specializes in fishFishnoun
(astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Pisces
Fishnoun
the twelfth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about February 19 to March 20
Fishverb
seek indirectly;
fish for complimentsFishverb
catch or try to catch fish or shellfish;
I like to go fishing on weekends
