shoal (noun)
51beacon — 1. noun a) A signal fire to notify of the approach of an enemy, or to give any notice, commonly of warning or guiding. , A post or buoy placed over a shoal or bank to warn vessels of …
52swarm — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. group, crowd, multitude, horde, colony, hive. See assemblage, sufficiency. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. throng, crowd, multitude, dense crowd, horde, pack, troop, drove, shoal, school, colony, hive, cloud …
53shallow — (adj.) c.1400, schalowe not deep, probably from O.E. sceald (see SHOAL (Cf. shoal)). Of breathing, attested from 1875; of thought or feeling, superficial, first recorded 1580s. The noun, usually shallows, is first recorded 1570s, from the… …
54o|ver|fall — «OH vuhr FAWL», noun. 1. a) a turbulent stretch of water caused by the meeting of currents or by a strong current running over a submerged ridge or shoal. b) such a ridge or shoal. 2. a sudden drop in the sea bottom. 3. a place for the overflow… …
55vi|gi|a — «vih JEE uh», noun. an indication on a hydrographic chart of the presence of a rock, shoal, or danger to navigation. ╂[< Spanish vigia shoal; a lookout < Latin vigilia; see etym. under vigil (Cf. ↑vigil)] …
56school — 1) a group of fishes, usually constituted of the same species, which tends to orient and move in the same direction. There are obligate and facultative schoolers. The latter can only be forced to stop schooling momentarily by considerable… …
57List of English words of Dutch origin — This is a list of words of Dutch language origin. However, note that this list does also include some words of which the etymology is uncertain, and that some may have been derived from Middle Low German equivalents instead or as well. Some of… …
58open — o|pen1 W1S1 [ˈəupən US ˈou ] adj ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(door/container etc)¦ 2¦(eyes/mouth)¦ 3¦(not enclosed)¦ 4¦(not covered)¦ 5 the open air 6¦(business/building etc)¦ 7¦(not restricted)¦ 8¦(opportunity)¦ 9¦(not secret)¦ 10¦ …
59fish — fish1 noun (plural same or fishes) 1》 a limbless cold blooded vertebrate animal with gills and fins, living wholly in water. ↘the flesh of fish as food. 2》 used in names of invertebrate animals living wholly in water, e.g. shellfish,… …
60spit — I. /spɪt / (say spit) verb (spat or spit, spitting) –verb (i) 1. to eject saliva from the mouth; expectorate. 2. to do this at or on a person, etc., to express hatred, contempt, etc. 3. to sputter. 4. to fall in scattered drops or flakes, as rain …
