shoal (noun)

  • 81round — round1 W2S2 [raund] adv, prep especially BrE also around 1.) surrounding or on all sides of something or someone ▪ We sat round the table playing cards. ▪ Gather round! I have an important announcement to make. ▪ He put his arm gently round her… …

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  • 82shiver — ‘tremble’ [13] and shiver ‘sliver, fragment’ [12] are different words. The former was originally chiver, which may have been an alteration of an earlier chevel ‘shiver’. This in shoal 454 turn was derived from the Old English noun ceaft ‘jaw’… …

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  • 83cay — [keɪ, ki:] noun (in Spanish America) a low bank or reef of coral, rock, or sand. Origin C17: from Sp. cayo shoal, reef , from Fr. quai quay …

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  • 84thresher — [ θrɛʃə] noun 1》 a person or machine that threshes. 2》 a shark with a long upper lobe to the tail, sometimes used in hunting to lash the water to herd its prey into a shoal. [Alopias vulpinus.] …

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  • 85bar — 1. noun 1) an iron bar Syn: rod, pole, stick, batten, shaft, rail, paling, spar, strut, crosspiece, beam 2) a bar of chocolate Syn: block, slab …

    Thesaurus of popular words

  • 86school — 1. noun 1) their children went to the local school Syn: educational institution; academy, college, university; seminary; alma mater 2) the university s School of Law Syn: department, faculty, division 3) …

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  • 87cay — /keɪ / (say kay), /ki / (say kee) noun a small island; key. {Spanish cayo shoal, reef} …

  • 88Dogger Bank — /dɒgə ˈbæŋk/ (say doguh bangk) noun an extensive shoal in the North Sea, about 113 km east of northern England; fishing grounds; battles between the British and German navies occurred in January 1915 and February 1916 during World War I. 11–37 m… …

  • 89Port Stephens — /pɔt ˈstivənz/ (say pawt steevuhnz) noun a large inlet on the central coast of NSW, north of Newcastle; popular tourist resort. Port Stephens lies in territory traditionally inhabited by the Worimi people. The inlet was sighted and named by… …

  • 90aĝ- (*heĝ-) —     aĝ (*heĝ )     English meaning: to lead, *drive cattle     Deutsche Übersetzung: “treiben” (actually probably “mit geschwungenen Armen treiben”), ‘schwingen”, in Bewegung setzen, fũhren”     Grammatical information: originally limited to… …

    Proto-Indo-European etymological dictionary