Shoal

/ʃəʊl/

Synonyms for "shoal" (117 found)

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Closest matches (24)

Noun(2 words)

a mass ofa world ofankle deepankle-deep army bank bar barrier bevy bunch cloud clutter colonycoral headscoral reefcovey cursory depthless drift drive

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drove

Determiner(1 words)

a school

Strong matches (35)

epidermalfill infill upflat flight flock flocks ford gam gang hail herd hive hook hostironbound coastjam jejune kennelknee deep

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knee-deeplarge amountledgeslee shorelegion light litter lot lots many massmasses ofmob muchness multitude

Related words (58)

nestnot deepnumberson the surfacepack pitfall plurality pod pride quantities quantity quicksandsquite a fewreefrockbound coastrocks rout ruck sandbank sandbar

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sands school scores shallow shallow-rooted shallows shelfshoal watershoalsskin deepskin-deep skulk slight sloth spit superficial surface swarm thin throngtidal flatstidy sumtrip trivial troop undercurrent undertow unprofound wetlandsworlds of

Noun(7 words)

sandbanks sandbarsschool of fishschoolsshallow watersshallows towheads

Verb(1 words)

shallow

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

5 relation types

More general

12 entries

alteranimal groupbody of waterchangedepth changegeographic descriptorgeographic featurehydrological processhydrological propertymodify sandbank water

More specific

11 entries

bait ballfish aggregationsand depositionsandbank sandbar sedimentationshallow channelshallow estuaryshallow shelfshallow watershoal water

Collocations

13 entries

fish shoalsand shoalshoal areashoal channelshoal coastshoal depthshoal estuaryshoal formationshoal of fishshoal shelfshoal watershoaling watertidal shoal

Inflections

5 entries

shoaled shoaler shoalest shoaling shoals

Derivations

2 entries

shoaling shoalness

Translations

7 translations across 7 languages.

Ancient Greek

1 entries

τέναγος noun (a shallow)

Bulgarian

1 entries

плитчина noun (a shallow)

Czech

1 entries

mělčina noun (a shallow)

Finnish

1 entries

matalikko noun (a shallow)

German

1 entries

Gelungg noun (a shallow)

Māori

1 entries

pāti noun (a shallow)

Spanish

1 entries

bajío noun (a shallow)

Sample sentences

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Tom and Mary were on the verge of diving, off the left edge of the sentence, in the infinite corpus, when they spotted underneath a shoal of hungry contributors, teeth out, ready to jump on them and shred their mistakes down to the last one.

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If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well / It were done quickly: if the assassination / Could trammel up the consequence, and catch / With his surcease success; that but this blow / Might be the be-all and the end-all here, / But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, / We'd jump the life to come.

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We've spotted that shoal of herring.

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We've located the shoal of herring.

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