shoal

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ʃəʊl/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A sandbank or sandbar creating a shallow.
    — 'Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.
  2. Any large number of persons or things.
    — Shoals of tourists
  3. A shallow in a body of water.
    — The depth of your pond should be six feet; and on the sides some shoals for the fish to sun themselves in and to lay their spawn.
  4. A large number of fish (or other sea creatures) of the same species swimming together. collective
    — c. 1661, Edmund Waller, On St. James's Park Beneath, a shoal of silver fishes glides.
动词 v.
  1. To arrive at a shallow (or less deep) area.
  2. To collect in a shoal; to throng.
    — The fish shoaled about the place.
  3. To cause a shallowing; to come to a more shallow part of. transitive
    — Noting the rate at which she shoals her water -[…]
  4. To become shallow.
    — The colour of the water shows where it shoals.
形容词 adj.
  1. Shallow. archaic
    — shoal water

词形变化

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词汇关系

近义词
school
衍生词
Glenburnie-Birchy Head-Shoal Brook James Shoal Muscle Shoals Panatag Shoal Rocks and Shoals Scarborough Shoal Shoal Bay shoaler shoal grass Shoal Harbour shoaling wave shoalness shoalweed shoaly Truro Shoal wave shoaling shoalwise

词源

词源 1
From Middle English schold, scholde, from Old English sċeald (“shallow”), perhaps from Proto-Germanic *skalidaz, past participle of *skaljaną (“to go dry, dry up, become shallow”), from *skalaz (“parched, shallow”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelh₁- (“to dry out”). Cognate with Low German Scholl (“shallow water”), German schal (“stale, flat, vapid”). Compare shallow.
词源 2
1570, presumably from Middle English *schole (“school of fish”), from Old English sċeolu, sċolu (“troop or band of people, host, multitude, division of army, school of fish”), from Proto-West Germanic *skolu, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to divide, split, separate”).
Cognate with West Frisian skoal (“shoal”), Middle Low German schōle (“multitude, troop”), Dutch school (“shoal of fishes”). Doublet of school.
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