| Principal Translations/Principales traductions |
| fish | npl | (aquatic animals) biologie | poisson nm |
| Can you see all the fish in the sea? |
| Vous avez vu tous ces poissons dans la mer ? |
| fish | n | (aquatic animal) biologie | poisson nm |
| There are many different types of fish. |
| Il existe de nombreuses espèces de poissons. |
| fish | n | (food) nourriture | poisson nm |
| I prefer to eat fish for health reasons. |
| Je préfère manger du poisson pour des raisons de santé. |
| fish | vtr | (attempt to catch fish) | pêcher⇒ vtr |
| He's fishing trout. |
| Il pêche la truite. |
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| Additional Translations/Traductions supplémentaires |
| fish | n | figurative (cold person) figuré | animal à sang froid nm |
| | figuré | glaçon nm |
| US: She's a cold fish, don't you think? |
| Cette femme est un animal à sang froid, vous trouvez pas ? |
| Cette femme est un vrai glaçon, vous trouvez pas ? |
| fish | n | slang, dated (dollar) | traduction non disponible |
| Hey, man, do you have a spare twenty fish? |
| fish | vi | (attempt to catch fish) | pêcher⇒ vi |
| | | aller à la pêche vi |
| I go fishing every Sunday. |
| Je vais pêcher tous les dimanches. |
| Je vais à la pêche tous les dimanches. |
| fish | vi | figurative (search for) | fouiller⇒ vtr |
| | figuré | plonger⇒ vi |
| Looking for her lipstick, she fished in her bag. |
| Elle a fouillé son sac à la recherche de son rouge à lèvres. |
| Elle a plongé dans son sac à la recherche de son rouge à lèvres. |
| fish | vi | figurative (seek) | chercher⇒, rechercher⇒ vtr |
| | | quêter⇒ vtr |
| | | être en quête, être à la recherche vi |
| She's fishing for compliments. Just ignore her. |
| Elle cherche (or: recherche) les compliments. Tu n'as qu'à l'ignorer. |
| Elle quête les compliments. Tu n'as qu'à l'ignorer. |
| Elle est en quête (or: Elle est à la recherche) de compliments. Tu n'as qu'à l'ignorer. |
| fish | vtr | (lift out) | repêcher⇒ vtr |
| They fished a body out of the river. |
| Ils ont repêché un corps dans la rivière. |
| fish | vtr | figurative (search through) | fouiller⇒ vtr |
| | figuré | passer au peigne fin vtr |
| They're fishing the whole region for leads. |
| Ils fouillent toute la région à la recherche d'indices. |
| Ils passent toute la région au peigne fin à la recherche d'indices. |
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| Compound Forms/Formes composées |
| and fish | | | et du poisson |
| another kettle of fish | | | une toute autre affaire nf |
| big fish | | slang notabilité argot | huile nf |
| blue fish | | | morue charbonnière |
| blue fish | | | tassergal nm |
| blue-fish | | | poisson bleu |
| bony fish | | | poisson osseux nm |
| clown fish | n | (bright orange striped fish) | poisson clown nm |
| cod-fish | | poisson | cabillaud nm |
| cod-fish | | | morue nf |
| coffer-fish | | poisson | coffre nm |
| cold fish | n | informal, figurative (unfriendly person) fam | pisse-froid nm |
| She is such a cold fish that she wouldn't even talk to me when I said hello. |
| drink like a fish | vi | expr (be an alcoholic) pop | boire comme un trou vi |
| He says he's not an alcoholic but he drinks like a fish. |
| Il dit qu'il n'est pas alcoolique mais il boit comme un trou. |
| fish and chip shop | | | débit de fritures nm |
| fish and chips | | UK (Cookery) Culinaire | poisson frit et frites |
| fish balls | | | boulettes de poisson |
| fish basket | n | (implement that holds frying fish) | panier à frire le poisson nm |
| fish bowl | n | literal (round glass container for goldfish, etc.) | bocal (à poissons) nm |
| I need to clean the fish bowl this week. |
| fish breeding | | | pisciculture nf |
| fish cake | | | croquette de poisson nf |
| fish crow | n | (black bird) | corneille de rivage nf |
| The fish crow is smaller than the American crow, with a higher-pitched caw. |
| fish culture | | | élevage de poissons |
| fish eggs | npl | (roe, caviar) | œufs de poisson nmpl |
| She turned up her nose at the caviar, saying she didn't like fish eggs. |
| Chose curieuse, elle préfère les œufs de cabillaud au caviar. |
| fish farm | | | ferme piscicole nf |
| fish farming | | Pisciculture | alevinage nm |
| fish finger | | UK | bâtonnet de poisson nm |
| fish for | vtr | figurative (seek to find or obtain) fig, fam, informations | pêcher⇒ vtr |
| She was always fishing for compliments. |
| She was fishing for information, but we said nothing. |
| Où as-tu été pêcher ces informations ? |
| fish for | vtr | (attempt to gain sth by hints ) | rechercher (des compliments) vtr |
| Note: The definition seems to apply only to the entire phrase "fish for compliments". Fishing in this sense just means "seek", sometimes with a hint of desperation. One can "fish" for many things: words, an answer, a spouse, and so on. |
| I wish she wouldn't fish for compliments when she gets a new hair style. |
| fish fry | n | (event where fried fish is served) Provence | sardinade nf |
| Our church is having a fish fry on friday. |
| fish hatchery | | pisciculture | appareil à éclosion |
| fish hook | n | (device used to catch fish) | hameçon nm |
| I always enjoyed fishing, but I hated having to stick the worms or grasshoppers on the fish hook. |
| fish ladder | n | (channel allowing fish past barriers) | passe à poissons nf |
| L'installation de passes à poissons a permis d'augmenter la population des saumons. |
| fish market | | | marché au poisson nm |
| fish meal | | | farine de poisson |
| fish merchant | | USA personne | poissonnier nm |
| fish out | vtr | informal (retrieve, pick out) | repêcher⇒ vtr |
| He fished the twenty pound note out of the toilet. |
| fish out of water | n | figurative (sb in an unfamiliar place or situation) | n'être pas dans son élément v pron |
| Although a fantastic football player he was like a fish out of water on the golf course. |
| Footballeur émérite, il n'est pas du tout dans son élément sur un parcours de golf. |
| | | se sentir très mal à l'aise v pron |
| Il a beau être un bon joueur de foot, il se sent très mal à l'aise sur un parcours de golf. |
| fish pond | n | (small lake for keeping fish) | bassin à poissons nm |
| Après avoir tondu le gazon, il faudra nettoyer le bassin à poissons et nourrir les carpes. |
| | | vivier nm |
| fish scale | | | écaille de poisson |
| fish shop | | | poissonnerie nf |
| fish slice | | UK | pelle à poisson nf |
| fish soup | | | soupe de poissons nf |
| fish stick | | US | bâtonnet de poisson nm |
| fish stock | n | (bouillon flavoured with fish) | fond de poisson nm |
| To make good bouillabaisse you start with fresh fish stock. |
| | | fumet de poisson nm |
| fish store | | | poissonnerie nf |
| fish tank | n | (aquarium) | aquarium nm |
| A large fish tank occupied one wall of the room. |
| Clean the filter regularly to keep your fish tank free from algae. |
| | dans un restaurant | vivier nm |
| fish that swim upstream | | | remonte nf |
| fish trade | | Pêche | mareyage nm |
| fish up | vtr | (contrive, find) fig, fam | pêcher⇒ vtr |
| He's always able to fish up some excuse or another. |
| I'll see if I can fish up any ideas for my next article. |
| On se demande où il a pêché une excuse aussi invraisemblable. Il est allé pêcher des idées dans son entourage. |
| | | dénicher⇒ vtr |
| fish with a seine | | pêcher à la seine | seiner v |
| fish with eggs | | poisson qui a des œufs | rogué adj |
| fish-and-chip shop | | | débit de fritures nm |
| fish-and-chips | | UK (Cookery) Culinaire | poisson frit et frites nm |
| fish-collecting pool | | | poêle nm |
| fish-eating | | | manger du poisson v |
| fish-feeding | | | nourrir les poissons |
| fish-hook | | | hameçon nm |
| fish-shaped | | | en forme de poisson |
| fish-skin | | | peau de poisson |
| flat fish | n | (plaice, flounder, turbot, etc.) | poisson plat nm |
| Flat fish like the flounder have both eyes on the same side of their head. |
| flying fish | n | (large-finned fish that leaps from water) | poisson volant nm |
| Flying fish leap from the water in order to avoid predators. |
| game fish | | | poisson d'eau douce |
| gefilte fish | n | (Jewish food: fish balls) | carpe farcie nf |
| At passover, gefilte fish is a traditional food. |
| | | carpe à la juive nf |
| green-fish | | (Cookery) Culinaire | poisson salé en vert nm |
| have other fish to fry | v | figurative (have something else to do) | avoir d'autres chats à fouetter expr |
| I can't wait around here, I've other fish to fry. |
| Je ne vais pas vous attendre toute la journée ; j'ai d'autres chats à fouetter. |
| like a fish out of water | adv | (out of place, out of one's element) | pas dans son élément loc adv |
| She felt like a fish out of water in trousers when she noticed that the other women were wearing formal evening dress. |
| Elle ne s'est pas sentie dans son élément, en jean au milieu des robes de soirée. |
| | | incongru adj |
| neither fish nor fowl | | | ni chair ni poisson |
| parrot fish | | | perroquet de mer |
| parrot fish | | | scare nm |
| parrot-fish | | | perroquet de mer nm |
| parrot-fish | | | scare nm |
| queer fish | n | slang (strange person) fam | drôle d'oiseau nm |
| I've been working with Anna for four years, but I still don't really know her. She's a bit of a queer fish, I think. |
| C'est un drôle d'oiseau, on n'arrive pas à le cerner. |
| | Québec, fam | drôle de moineau nm |
| Tu es un bien drôle de moineau. Mais tu n'es certes pas fou braque. Mon cher Bergerac. |
| | fam | drôle de zèbre nm |
| Un drôle de zèbre nous a suivies dans la rue. |
| | argot, verlan | zarbi adj |
| Anna prend son bain avec ses chaussettes : elle a toujours été un peu zarbi... |
| | vieilli | drôle de paroissien nm |
| Selon les dires de ses proches, le défunt était un drôle de paroissien. |
| raw fish | n | (food: fish that is uncooked) | poisson cru nm |
| Despite the popularity of sushi, raw fish is not usually considered healthy to eat. |
| red fish | | | poisson rouge nm |
| red scorpion fish | | Scorpaena scrofa | rascasse rouge nf |
| river-fish | | | poisson de rivière nm |
| salt fish | | | poisson salé séché nm |
| school of fish | n | (fish swimming in a group) | banc de poissons nm |
| A school of fish swam through the coral. |
| Les bancs de poissons attirent les orques. |
| schooling fish | | | poisson de banc nm |
| sea fish | | | poisson de mer nm |
| sea-fish | | | poisson de mer nm |
| Siamese fighting fish | | Betta splendens (zoology) zoologie | combattant du Siam nm |
| surgeon fish | | ichtyologie | chirurgien nm |
| tropical fish | n | (fish from tropical waters) | poisson tropical nm |
| Many collectors of tropical fish are particularly proud of their angelfish. |
| Sa collection de poissons tropicaux est très belle. |
| tuna fish | | | thon nm |
| white fish | n | (term for many varieties of edible fish) | poisson à chair blanche nm |
| wholesale fish merchant | | Pêche | mareyeur nm |
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