What does shark mean?

Definitions for shark
ʃɑrkshark

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. sharknoun

    any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales

  2. sharknoun

    a person who is ruthless and greedy and dishonest

  3. sharkverb

    a person who is unusually skilled in certain ways

    "a card shark"

  4. sharkverb

    play the shark; act with trickery

  5. sharkverb

    hunt shark

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Sharknoun

    Etymology: canis charcharias, Latin.

    His jaws horrifick arm’d with threefold fate,
    The direful shark. James Thomson, Summer.

    David’s messengers are sent back to him, like so many sharks and runnagates, only for endeavouring to compliment an ill-nature out of itself, and seeking that by petition which they might have commanded by their sword. Robert South, Sermons.

    Wretches who live upon the shark, and other mens sins, the common poisoners of youth, equally desperate in their fortunes and their manners, and getting their very bread by the damnation of souls. Robert South, Sermons.

  2. To Sharkverb

    To pick up hastily or slily.

    Young Fontinbras,
    Of unimproved mettle, hot and full,
    Hath in the skirts of Norway, here and there,
    Shark’d up a list of landless resolutes. William Shakespeare, Hamlet.

  3. To Sharkverb

    The fly leads a lazy, voluptuous, scandalous, sharking life, hateful wherever she comes. Roger L'Estrange.

    There are cheats by natural inclination as well as by corruption: nature taught this boy to shark, not discipline. Roger L'Estrange.

    The old generous English spirit, which heretofore made this nation so great in the eyes of all the world, seems utterly extinct; and we are degenerated into a mean, sharking, fallacious, undermining converse, there being a snare and a trapan almost in every word we hear, and every action we see. South.

Wikipedia

  1. SHARK

    In cryptography, SHARK is a block cipher identified as one of the predecessors of Rijndael (the Advanced Encryption Standard). SHARK has a 64-bit block size and a 128-bit key size. It is a six-round SP-network which alternates a key mixing stage with linear and non-linear transformation layers. The linear transformation uses an MDS matrix representing a Reed–Solomon error correcting code in order to guarantee good diffusion. The nonlinear layer is composed of eight 8×8-bit S-boxes based on the function F(x) = x−1 over GF(28). Five rounds of a modified version of SHARK can be broken using an interpolation attack (Jakobsen and Knudsen, 1997).

ChatGPT

  1. shark

    A shark is a type of carnivorous fish characterized by a streamlined, torpedo-shaped body, a fin on the back, sharp teeth, and gill slits on each side of its head. They are cartilaginous fishes found in all seas and are prominent in popular culture due to their size, predatory nature, and occasional attacks on humans. They occupy diverse habitats from shallow coastal waters to deep seas and vary greatly in size, with some species reaching up to 20 feet in length. Sharks are also known for their acute senses, especially their ability to detect electrical fields generated by other animals.

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. Sharkverb

    to pick or gather indiscriminately or covertly

  5. Sharkverb

    to play the petty thief; to practice fraud or trickery; to swindle

  6. Sharkverb

    to live by shifts and stratagems

  7. Etymology: [Of uncertain origin; perhaps through OF. fr. carcharus a kind of dogfish, Gr. karchari`as, so called from its sharp teeth, fr. ka`rcharos having sharp or jagged teeth; or perhaps named from its rapacity (cf. Shark, v. t. & i.); cf. Corn. scarceas.]

Wikidata

  1. SHARK

    In cryptography, SHARK is a block cipher identified as one of the predecessors of Rijndael. SHARK has a 64-bit block size and a 128-bit key size. It is a six round SP-network which alternates a key mixing stage with linear and non-linear transformation layers. The linear transformation uses an MDS matrix representing a Reed-Solomon error correcting code in order to guarantee good diffusion. The nonlinear layer is composed of eight 8×8-bit S-boxes based on the function F(x) = x−1 over GF. Five rounds of a modified version of SHARK can be broken using an interpolation attack.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Shark

    shärk, n. a common name for most of the Elasmobranch fishes included in the sub-order Selachoidei—voracious fishes, mostly carnivorous, with large sharp teeth on the jaws—most numerous in the tropics. [Perh. L. carcharus—Gr. karcharos, jagged.]

  2. Shark

    shärk, n. a sharper, a cheat or swindler: an extortionate rogue.—v.i. to live like a swindler.—v.t. to pick up (with up or out).—ns. Shark′er; Shark′ing. [Prob. from preceding word.]

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. shark

    A name applied to many species of large cartilaginous fish of the family Squalidæ. Their ferocity and voracity are proverbial. Also, applied to crimps, sharpers, and low attorneys.

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. SHARK

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Shark is ranked #56444 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Shark surname appeared 362 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Shark.

    71.8% or 260 total occurrences were White.
    19.3% or 70 total occurrences were Black.
    4.7% or 17 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    2.4% or 9 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    1.6% or 6 total occurrences were Asian.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of shark in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of shark in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of shark in a Sentence

  1. Agostino Leone:

    This new data allowed us to observe the biological diversity of white sharks living in the Mediterranean, by analyzing and comparing different specimens, we were able to estimate that the white shark population in the Mediterranean started to evolve differently from other cognate populations around 3.2 million years ago. This essentially proves that those theories about sharks colonizing the Mediterranean around 450,000 years ago are wrong.

  2. Christopher Lowe:

    People have been taught to fear sharks, thinking that if the shark's nearby it's going to bite, and we know that is not true.

  3. Tim Arthur:

    At first I thought he was screaming out of joy, and then I looked at him and saw the shark.

  4. Richard Peirce:

    If fisherman are catching fish or struggling with fish in the water, that's one of the prime attractors for a shark, so when you've hooked a fish before you've landed it on the boat, the whole time it's struggling in the water it's likely to be emitting fluids, leaking blood and acids ... all the signals that would attract a shark.

  5. Gavin Naylor:

    They are archetypal, typical looking sharks like a great reef or bull shark. They sort of look like that but they have tiny little eyes and big broad fins, these are adaption for living in very turbid water. If you have a look where these things live, the visibility is about an inch. It’s completely muddy water.

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