What does shoal mean?
Definitions for shoal
ʃoʊlshoal
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Princeton's WordNet
shoalnoun
a sandbank in a stretch of water that is visible at low tide
shoal, shallownoun
a stretch of shallow water
school, shoalverb
a large group of fish
"a school of small glittering fish swam by"
shallow, shoalverb
make shallow
"The silt shallowed the canal"
shallow, shoalverb
become shallow
"the lake shallowed over time"
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Shoaladjective
Shallow; obstructed or incumbered with banks.
Shoalnoun
Etymology: scole , Saxon.
When there be great shoals of people, which go on to populate, without foreseeing means of sustentation: once in an age they discharge a portion of their people upon other nations. Francis Bacon.
A league is made against such routs and sholes of people as have utterly degenerated from nature. Francis Bacon.
The vices of a prince draw sholes of followers, when his virtue leaves him the more eminent, because single. Decay of Piety.
A shoal of silver fishes glides
And plays about the barges. Edmund Waller.God had the command of famine, whereby he could have carried them off by shoals. John Woodward.
Around the goddess roll
Broad hats, and hoods, and caps, a sable shoal,
Thick, and more thick the black blocade extends. Alexander Pope.The haven’s mouth they durst not enter, for the dangerous shoals. George Abbot, Descript. of the World.
He heaves them off the sholes. Dryden.
The depth of your pond should be six foot; and on the sides some sholes for the fish to lay their spawn. John Mortimer.
To Shoalverb
Etymology: from the noun.
The wave-sprung entrails, about which fausens and fish did shole. George Chapman.
What they met
Solid, or slimy, as in raging sea,
Tost up and down, together crouded drove,
From each side shoaling tow’rds the mouth of hell. John Milton.
ChatGPT
shoal
A shoal is a relatively shallow area of the sea or a body of freshwater, where the water depth is such that it is a hazard to navigation. In another context, it can refer to a large group of fish or other aquatic animals swimming together.
Webster Dictionary
Shoalnoun
a great multitude assembled; a crowd; a throng; -- said especially of fish; as, a shoal of bass
Shoalverb
to assemble in a multitude; to throng; as, the fishes shoaled about the place
Shoaladjective
having little depth; shallow; as, shoal water
Shoalnoun
a place where the water of a sea, lake, river, pond, etc., is shallow; a shallow
Shoalnoun
a sandbank or bar which makes the water shoal
Shoalverb
to become shallow; as, the color of the water shows where it shoals
Shoalverb
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
Etymology: [Cf. Shallow; or cf. G. scholle a clod, glebe, OHG. scollo, scolla, prob. akin to E. shoal a multitude.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Shoal
shōl, n. a great multitude of fishes swimming together.—v.i. to crowd.—adv. Shoal′wise, in shoals. [A.S. scólu, company—L. schola, school.]
Shoal
shōl, n. a shallow: a place where the water of a river, sea, or lake is not deep: a sandbank.—adj. shallow.—v.i. to grow shallow: to come upon shallows.—ns. Shoal′er, a coasting vessel; Shoal′iness; Shoal′ing, filling up with shoals; Shoal′-mark, a mark set up to indicate shoal-water; Shoal′ness, shallowness.—adj. Shoal′y, full of shoals or shallows: not deep. [Scand.; Ice. skálgr, oblique; cf. Shallow.]
The Roycroft Dictionary
shoal
Shallow, literary, theological. (By extension, Columbia, Harvard, Yale and some other universities are sometimes called shoal-marks.)
Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms
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.
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
shoal
A danger formed by sunken rocks, on which the sea does not break; but generally applied to every place where the water is shallow, whatever be the ground. (See FLAT SHOAL, SHOLE, or SCHOLE.) Also, denotes a great quantity of fishes swimming in company--squamosæ cohortes. Also, a vessel is said to shoalen, or shoal her water, when she comes from a greater into a less depth.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of shoal in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of shoal in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of shoal in a Sentence
We are playing a cat-and-mouse game with the Chinese, they're preventing us from getting near the shoal and they have armed soldiers in rubber boats chasing us.
We want the U.S. military to watch over our ships, which China attempts to block every time we rotate troops and bring supplies to a ship that ran aground on Ayungin shoal.
New Korean-built light fighter aircraft could reach Scarborough Shoal in just minutes, and maritime patrol aircraft or drones could eventually provide persistent coverage of Chinese movements in the area, a return to Subic Bay, this time led by the Philippine air force, would seem to be a prudent defensive response.
Win or lose, we will help our fishermen, it's very unfair for China to stay there or even share the resources in Scarborough Shoal because the Philippines owns that 100 percent.
The State Department official:
Ultimately no matter how much sand China piles on top of a submerged reef or shoal ... it is not enhancing its territorial claim. You can't build sovereignty, he (Kerry) will leave his Chinese interlocutors in absolutely no doubt that the United States remains committed to maintaining freedom of navigation and to exercise our legitimate rights as pertaining to over flight and movement on the high seas.
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- mělčina, hejnoCzech
- Sandbank, FischschwarmGerman
- κοπάδιGreek
- sablejo, sablobenkoEsperanto
- bajío, banco, cardumenSpanish
- سنارPersian
- banc de poissons, banc de sableFrench
- ráthIrish
- oitir, cliath, sgaothScottish Gaelic
- վտառArmenian
- ubòmIgbo
- banco, scuola, banco di sabbia, seccaItalian
- 浅瀬Japanese
- 모래톱, 사주Korean
- tāhuna, tārake, matatuhiMāori
- јато, плитакMacedonian
- zandbank, schoolDutch
- sandbanke, stimNorwegian
- ławicaPolish
- cardume, banco de areiaPortuguese
- мель, банка, мелководье, стая, отмель, косякRussian
- plova, pličina, плова, пличинаSerbo-Croatian
- stim, sandbankSwedish
- 浅滩Chinese
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