shoal
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a sandbank in a stretch of water that is visible at low tide
Types & categories
- sandbank hypernym
Related & opposite
- reefy derivation
Sense 2 verb
make shallow
The silt shallowed the canal
Types & categories
- change hypernym
Related & opposite
- shallow derivation
Sense 3 noun
a stretch of shallow water
Types & categories
- body of water hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 4 verb
become shallow
the lake shallowed over time
Types & categories
- change hypernym
Related & opposite
- shallow derivation
Sense 5 noun
a large group of fish
a school of small glittering fish swam by
Types & categories
- animal group hypernym
Parts & wholes
- fish member meronym
Related & opposite
- school derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | reefy |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | sandbank |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | shallow |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | change |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | shoal |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | shoal |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | shallow |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | body of water |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | shallow |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | change |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | school |
| 5 | member meronym | Parts & wholes | fish |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | animal group |