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1. (n.) shoal
a place where a sea, river, or other body of water is shallow.
2. shoal
a sandbank or sand bar in the bed of a body of water, esp. one visible at low tide.
3. (adj.) shoal
(of water) shallow.
4. (v.i.) shoal
to become shallow or more shallow.
5. (v.t.) shoal
to make shallow.
6. shoal
to sail so as to lessen the depth of (the water under a vessel).
7. (n.) shoal
any large number of persons or things.
8. shoal
a school of fish.
9. (v.i.) shoal
to collect in a shoal; throng.
Etymology: (1570–80; earlier shole, prob. < MD, MLG schōle)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) shoal
a sandbank in a stretch of water that is visible at low tide
2. (noun) shoal, shallow
a stretch of shallow water
3. (verb) school, shoal
a large group of fish
"a school of small glittering fish swam by"
4. (verb) shallow, shoal
make shallow
"The silt shallowed the canal"
5. (verb) shallow, shoal
become shallow
"the lake shallowed over time"
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (adj) shoal
having little depth; shallow; as, shoal water
2. (noun) shoal
a great multitude assembled; a crowd; a throng; -- said especially of fish; as, a shoal of bass
3. (noun) shoal
a place where the water of a sea, lake, river, pond, etc., is shallow; a shallow
4. (noun) shoal
a sandbank or bar which makes the water shoal
5. (verb) shoal
to assemble in a multitude; to throng; as, the fishes shoaled about the place
6. (verb) shoal
to become shallow; as, the color of the water shows where it shoals
7. (verb) shoal
to cause to become more shallow; to come to a more shallow part of; as, a ship shoals her water by advancing into that which is less deep
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The Roycroft Dictionary |
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shoal
Shallow, literary, theological. (By extension, Columbia, Harvard, Yale and some other universities are sometimes called shoal-marks.)
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Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms |
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1. shoal
A sandbank or bar that makes water shoal; i.e., a sand-bank that is not rocky and on which there is a water depth of 6 fathoms or less.
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Sense: a great number of fish swimming together in one place
The fishing-boats were searching for large shoals of fish.
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 Afrikaans: skool |
 Arabic: سِرْب أو فَوْج من الأسْما |
 Bulgarian: рибен пасаж |
 Brazilian: cardume |
 Czech: hejno |
 German: der Schwarm |
 Danish: stime |
 Greek: κοπάδι ψαριών |
 Spanish: banco, cardumen |
 Estonian: kalaparv |
 Farsi: گروه |
 Finnish: kalaparvi |
 French: banc (de poissons) |
 Hebrew: נְחִיל דָגִים |
 Hindi: झुण्ड |
 Croatian: jato (riba), mnoštvo |
 Hungarian: halraj |
 Indonesian: kawanan ikan |
 Icelandic: mergð, torfa |
 Italian: branco, banco |
 Japanese: 魚群 |
 Korean: (무리) 때 |
 Lithuanian: būrys |
 Latvian: bars |
 Malay: sekawan |
 Dutch: school |
 Norwegian: stim |
 Polish: ławica |
 Persian: گروه |
 Pashto: ډله، بهير (لكه دكبانو |
 Portuguese: cardume |
 Romanian: banc (de peşte) |
 Russian: стая, косяк |
 Slovak: húf, kŕdeľ |
 Slovenian: jata |
 Serbian: skupljati se u jato |
 Swedish: stim |
 Thai: ฝูงปลา |
 Turkish: sürü |
 Taiwanese: 魚群 |
 Ukrainian: табун; косяк |
 Urdu: مچھلیوں کا جھول یا جمگھٹا |
 Vietnamese: đàn cá |
 Chinese: 鱼群 |
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