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SHOAL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A large group of fish
Example:
a school of small glittering fish swam by
Synonyms:
school; shoal
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("shoal" is a kind of...):
animal group (a group of animals)
Meronyms (members of "shoal"):
fish (any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A stretch of shallow water
Synonyms:
shallow; shoal
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("shoal" is a kind of...):
body of water; water (the part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean))
Derivation:
shoal (become shallow)
shoal (make shallow)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A sandbank in a stretch of water that is visible at low tide
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("shoal" is a kind of...):
sandbank (a submerged bank of sand near a shore or in a river; can be exposed at low tide)
Derivation:
shoaly (full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Become shallow
Example:
the lake shallowed over time
Synonyms:
shallow; shoal
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "shoal" is one way to...):
change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Derivation:
shoal (a stretch of shallow water)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Make shallow
Example:
The silt shallowed the canal
Synonyms:
shallow; shoal
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "shoal" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derivation:
shoal (a stretch of shallow water)
