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Shoal

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Noun

1. shoal

a sandbank in a stretch of water that is visible at low tide

2. shallow, shoal

a stretch of shallow water

3. school, shoal

a large group of fish

Example Sentences:
'a school of small glittering fish swam by'

Verb

4. shallow, shoal

make shallow

Example Sentences:
'The silt shallowed the canal'

5. shallow, shoal

become shallow

Example Sentences:
'the lake shallowed over time'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Shoal

see synonyms of shoal
noun
1. 
a stretch of shallow water
2. 
a sandbank or rocky area in a stretch of water, esp one that is visible at low water
verb
3. 
to make or become shallow
4. (intransitive) nautical
to sail into shallower water
adjective also: shoaly
5.  a less common word for shallow
6. nautical
(of the draught of a vessel) drawing little water
noun
1. 
a large group of certain aquatic animals, esp fish
2. 
a large group of people or things
verb
3. (intransitive)
to collect together in such a group

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Shoal

see synonyms of shoal
noun
1. 
a large group; mass; crowd
2. 
a large school of fish
verb intransitive
3. 
to come together in or move about as a shoal or school
noun
1. 
a shallow place in a river, sea, etc.; a shallow
2. 
a sandbar or piece of rising ground forming a shallow place that is a danger to navigation, esp. one visible at low water
verb intransitive
3. 
to become shallow
verb transitive
4. 
to make shallow
5. 
to sail into a shallow or shallower part of (water)

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Shoal

see synonyms of shoal
n.
1. A shallow place in a body of water.
2. A sandy elevation of the bottom of a body of water, constituting a hazard to navigation; a sandbank or sandbar.
v. shoaled, shoal·ing, shoals
v.intr.
To become shallow: The river shoals suddenly here from eight to two fathoms.
v.tr.
1. To make shallow: The approach to the harbor was shoaled in the storm.
2. To come or sail into a shallower part of.
adj.
Having little depth; shallow.
n.
1. A large school of fish or other aquatic animals.
2. A large group; a crowd: a shoal of advisers.
intr.v. shoaled, shoal·ing, shoals
To come together in large numbers: The fish were shoaling.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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