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 Definitions of shark  [ʃɑrk]  

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Definition of 'shark' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) shark
any of various predatory cartilaginous fishes of the order Selachii, having a rough scaleless skin, a wide mouth on the underside of the head, and five to seven gill slits on each side: some attack humans.

2. (n.) shark
a person who preys greedily on others, as by cheating or usury.

3.  shark
Informal. a person who has unusual ability in a particular field.

4. (v.t.) shark
Archaic. to obtain by trickery or fraud; steal.

Etymology:  (1590–1600; < dial. G Schork, var. of Schurke rascal)

Definition of 'shark' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) shark
any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales

2. (noun) shark
a person who is ruthless and greedy and dishonest

3. (verb) shark
a person who is unusually skilled in certain ways
"a card shark"

4. (verb) shark
play the shark; act with trickery

5. (verb) shark
hunt shark


Definition of 'shark' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) shark
a large ocean fish with teeth and a fin on its back
a great white shark


Definition of 'shark' Webster Dictionary 

1.  shark
any one of numerous species of elasmobranch fishes of the order Plagiostomi, found in all seas

2.  shark
a rapacious, artful person; a sharper

3.  shark
trickery; fraud; petty rapine; as, to live upon the shark

4. (verb) shark
to pick or gather indiscriminately or covertly

5. (verb) shark
to play the petty thief; to practice fraud or trickery; to swindle

6. (verb) shark
to live by shifts and stratagems


Translation of 'shark' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: a type of large, fierce, flesh-eating fish.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: haai Arabic flag Arabic: سَمَك القِرْش Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: акула
Brazilian flag Brazilian: tubarão Czech flag Czech: žralok German flag German: der Hai
Danish flag Danish: haj Greek flag Greek: καρχαρίας Spanish flag Spanish: tiburón
Estonian flag Estonian: hai Farsi flag Farsi: كوسه Finnish flag Finnish: hai
French flag French: requin Hebrew flag Hebrew: כָּרִיש Hindi flag Hindi: शार्क मछली
Croatian flag Croatian: morski pas Hungarian flag Hungarian: cápa Indonesian flag Indonesian: hiu
Icelandic flag Icelandic: hákarl Italian flag Italian: squalo Japanese flag Japanese: さめ
Korean flag Korean: 상어 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: ryklys Latvian flag Latvian: haizivs
Malay flag Malay: jerung Dutch flag Dutch: haai Norwegian flag Norwegian: hai
Polish flag Polish: rekin Persian flag Persian: كوسه Pashto flag Pashto: شارك، يو ډول داړونكى كب چ
Portuguese flag Portuguese: tubarão Romanian flag Romanian: rechin Russian flag Russian: акула
Slovak flag Slovak: žralok Slovenian flag Slovenian: morski pes Serbian flag Serbian: ajkula
Swedish flag Swedish: haj Thai flag Thai: ปลาฉลาม Turkish flag Turkish: köpekbalığı
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 鯊魚 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: акула Urdu flag Urdu: شارک، ایک خونخوار قسم کی
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: cá mập Chinese flag Chinese: 鲨鱼

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