shoal

Meaning

Adj

Shallow.

Noun

1. A sandbank or sandbar creating a shallow.
2. A shallow in a body of water.

Verb

1. To arrive at a shallow (or less deep) area.
2. (transitive) To cause a shallowing; to come to a more shallow part of.
3. To become shallow.

Noun

1. Any large number of persons or things.
2. (collective) A large number of fish (or other sea creatures) of the same species swimming together.

Verb

To collect in a shoal; to throng.

Synonyms

flock

sandbank

shallow

school

🏫

bank

🏦

sandbar

swarm

herd

become shallow

shallows

crowd

bevy

flight

✈️

wash

🧽

troop

throng

horde

collection

multitude

shallow water

circle

⭕

grow shallow

drift

rapids

shallow place

sand-bank

sand bar

bar

reef

company

pack

rock

🪨

colony

ford

group

family

👪

cluster

cloud

☁️

army

exaltation

pod

clamour

battery

🔋

chowder

cartload

battalion

assembly

busyness

business

barren

Translations

Untiefe

Schwarm

secca

haut-fond

bassofondo

banc de sable

bajío

Sandbank

banc

bajo

banco

🏦

banco de areia

superficiel

Fischschwarm

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ʃəʊl/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: schold

Inherited from Old English: sċeald

Cognate with Low German: Scholl

Cognate with German: schal

Cognate with Middle English: *schole

Inherited from Old English: sċeolu

Cognate with Western Frisian: skoal

Cognate with Middle Low German: schōle

Cognate with Dutch: school

In summary

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.