Definitions for shark
ʃɑrkshark

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

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 DictionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Sharknoun

   Etymology: canis charcharias, Latin.

   1. A voracious sea-fish.

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

   2. A greedy artful fellow; one who fills his pockets by sly tricks.

   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.

   3. Trick; fraud; petty rapine.

   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

   1. To play the petty thief.

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

   2.To cheat; to trick. Robert Ainsworth

   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.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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).

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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 DictionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

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.]

WikidataRate this definition:3.0 / 2 votes

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 DictionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

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 TermsRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

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 RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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.

Matched Categories

1. • Cheat
   • Elasmobranch
   • Fish
   • Wrongdoer

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How to pronounce shark?

1. Alex

   US English

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   Mark

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   Daniel

   British

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   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

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   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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How to say shark in sign language?

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. Michael Kelly:

   And I keep thinking to myself: Wow, if Beau Willimon and the writing staff had a character like Donald Trump on our show -- if we had put a character out there, not named him Donald Trump, and that was someone who was legitimately running for office on our show, I think people would accuse us of jumping the shark.

2. Captain Dave Bender:

   [ It ] gets about 75 feet from the boat, it’s very obvious, we see just the head, the spine and the tail, and the tiger shark swimming right to the boat, so that thing came in … it was like that old cartoon, when the cat gets the fish and [ strips it clean ].

3. Ingolf Tuerk:

   If he didn't have the encounter with the shark, and given the fact that he's a healthy 39-year-old man, the tumor probably would have grown over the next five, six years. The surgery could have been significantly less successful had the tumor not been located early.

4. 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.

5. Simon Allen:

   Foraging with a sponge is a time-consuming and largely solitary activity so it was long thought incompatible with the needs of male dolphins in Shark Bay - to invest time in forming close alliances with other males.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=shark
2. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=shark
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shark
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shark
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=shark
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=shark
8. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=shark
9. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html
10. ^ Usage in printed sources
    https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=shark