shoal

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We resemble more a shoal of fish or a wildebeest herd.

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Quick take

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

Meaning at a glance

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noun

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

noun

a stretch of shallow water

noun

a large group of fish; "a school of small glittering fish swam by"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for shoal.

noun

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

noun

a stretch of shallow water

noun

a large group of fish; "a school of small glittering fish swam by"

verb

make shallow; "The silt shallowed the canal"

verb

become shallow; "the lake shallowed over time"

Example sentences

We resemble more a shoal of fish or a wildebeest herd.

The user should get an alarm if their course will take them over a shoal or into a mark.

I'm told the latest sonars can distinguish both the species and age of fish in a shoal.

If next year the total shoal population had grown, their 'share values' had increased.

I'm talking about things like an anthill or a tuna shoal kind of emergence -- a collective animal.

Rapid and dramatic changes to its geomorphological formation, due to the large-scale removal of its sand and gravel, saw the gradual reduction of Silver Sands’ once ‘silvery’ crest, into a predominantly rocky shoal.

It might be a shoal of hydrocarbon herrings, or some Saturnian Kraken being woken from its long sleep by the alien emanations of the spacecraft overhead, although I can't see any reasonable prior that would give such propositions greater plausibility than the more geologically-oriented suggestions in the article.