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n. A shallow place in a body of water.

n. A sandy elevation of the bottom of a body of water, constituting a hazard to navigation; a sandbank or sandbar.

verb-intransitive. To become shallow: The river shoals suddenly here from eight to two fathoms.

v. To make shallow: The approach to the harbor was shoaled in the storm.

v. To come or sail into a shallower part of.

adj. Having little depth; shallow.

n. A large group; a crowd.

n. A large school of fish or other marine animals.

verb-intransitive. To come together in large numbers; throng.

adj. Shallow.

n. A sandbank or sandbar creating a shallow.

v. To arrive at a shallow (or less deep) area.

v. To cause a shallowing; to come to a more shallow part of.

n. Any large number of persons or things.

n. A large number of fish (or other sea creatures) of the same species swimming together.

v. To collect in a shoal; to throng.

n. A great multitude assembled; a crowd; a throng; -- said especially of fish.

verb-intransitive. To assemble in a multitude; to throng.

adj. Having little depth; shallow.

n. A place where the water of a sea, lake, river, pond, etc., is shallow; a shallow.

n. A sandbank or bar which makes the water shoal.

verb-intransitive. To become shallow.

v. To cause to become more shallow; to come to a more shallow part of.

Shallow; of little depth.

n. A place where the water of a stream, lake, or sea is of little depth; a sand-bank or bar; a shallow; more particularly, among seamen, a sand-bank which shows at low water: also used figuratively.

To become shallow, or more shallow.

Nautical, to cause to become shallow, or more shallow; proceed from a greater into a lesser depth of: as, a vessel in sailing shoals her water.

n. A great multitude; a crowd; a throng; of fish, a school: as, a shoal of herring; shoals of people.

To assemble in a multitude; crowd; throng; school, as fish.

n. a stretch of shallow water

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

v. become shallow

n. a large group of fish

v. make shallow

"In 2000, the Korean researchers did experimental tests on 'Tianchi trout' found in shoal waters that measured 85 centimeters in length and weighed 7.7 kilos, but they've never been able to test trout from the deeper waters of Tianchi Lake."

shoaled    shoaling    shoals   

water    body of water    sandbank    change    animal group    modify    alter   

magnetic shoal   

shoaled    shoaling   

crowd    throng    shallow    school    flock    sandbank    sandbar   

reef    creek    inlet    islet    cove    isle    headland    harbour    ridge    peninsula