noun. A large school of fish or other aquatic animals.

noun. A large group; a crowd.

intransitive verb. To come together in large numbers.

noun. A shallow place in a body of water.

noun. A sandy elevation of the bottom of a body of water, constituting a hazard to navigation; a sandbank or sandbar.

intransitive verb. To become shallow.

intransitive verb. To make shallow.

intransitive verb. To come or sail into a shallower part of.

adjective. Having little depth; shallow.

noun. A great multitude; a crowd; a throng; of fish, a school: as, a shoal of herring; shoals of people.

To assemble in a multitude; crowd; throng; school, as fish.

To become shallow, or more shallow.

Nautical, to cause to become shallow, or more shallow; proceed from a greater into a lesser depth of: as, a vessel in sailing shoals her water.

Shallow; of little depth.

noun. A place where the water of a stream, lake, or sea is of little depth; a sand-bank or bar; a shallow; more particularly, among seamen, a sand-bank which shows at low water: also used figuratively.

noun. A great multitude assembled; a crowd; a throng; -- said especially of fish.

adjective. Having little depth; shallow.

intransitive verb. To assemble in a multitude; to throng.

intransitive verb. To become shallow.

noun. A place where the water of a sea, lake, river, pond, etc., is shallow; a shallow.

noun. A sandbank or bar which makes the water shoal.

transitive verb. To cause to become more shallow; to come to a more shallow part of.

adjective. Shallow.

noun. A sandbank or sandbar creating a shallow.

verb. To arrive at a shallow (or less deep) area.

verb. To cause a shallowing; to come to a more shallow part of.

noun. Any large number of persons or things.

noun. A large number of fish (or other sea creatures) of the same species swimming together.

verb. To collect in a shoal; to throng.

noun. a stretch of shallow water

noun. a sandbank in a stretch of water that is visible at low tide

verb. become shallow

noun. a large group of fish

verb. make shallow

"In 2000, the Korean researchers did experimental tests on 'Tianchi trout' found in shoal waters that measured 85 centimeters in length and weighed 7.7 kilos, but they've never been able to test trout from the deeper waters of Tianchi Lake."

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