shoal 的 4 个定义
- a place where a sea, river, or other body of water is shallow.
- a sandbank or sand bar in the bed of a body of water, especially one that is exposed above the surface of the water at low tide.
- of little depth, as water; shallow.
- to become shallow or more shallow.
- to cause to become shallow.
- Nautical. to sail so as to lessen the depth of.
shoal 近义词
sandbar
更多shoal例句
- Expect lots of shoals and waves, with long eddies between rapids.
- Alter finds little evidence of open bigotry in his past, but Carter usually managed to navigate the perilous shoals of racial politics in the Deep South by portage — avoiding them as best he could.
- Off the entrance is a high rocky islet, the Nobby, within which the channel is shoal and dangerous to pass.
- The continuation of the shoal between the islands and Point Lookout was not clearly ascertained.
- At a short quarter of a mile from the point is a rocky shoal of small size, between which and the shore there is deep water.
- Some shoal marks on the water were observed opposite these islands, but their existence was not ascertained.
- At the bottom of Knocker's Bay is a shoal mangrove opening, of no importance.