What's the difference between fish and shoal?

Fish


Definition:

  • (n.) A counter, used in various games.
  • (pl. ) of Fish
  • (n.) A name loosely applied in popular usage to many animals of diverse characteristics, living in the water.
  • (n.) An oviparous, vertebrate animal usually having fins and a covering scales or plates. It breathes by means of gills, and lives almost entirely in the water. See Pisces.
  • (n.) The twelfth sign of the zodiac; Pisces.
  • (n.) The flesh of fish, used as food.
  • (n.) A purchase used to fish the anchor.
  • (n.) A piece of timber, somewhat in the form of a fish, used to strengthen a mast or yard.
  • (v. i.) To attempt to catch fish; to be employed in taking fish, by any means, as by angling or drawing a net.
  • (v. i.) To seek to obtain by artifice, or indirectly to seek to draw forth; as, to fish for compliments.
  • (v. t.) To catch; to draw out or up; as, to fish up an anchor.
  • (v. t.) To search by raking or sweeping.
  • (v. t.) To try with a fishing rod; to catch fish in; as, to fish a stream.
  • (v. t.) To strengthen (a beam, mast, etc.), or unite end to end (two timbers, railroad rails, etc.) by bolting a plank, timber, or plate to the beam, mast, or timbers, lengthwise on one or both sides. See Fish joint, under Fish, n.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Both the vitellogenesis and the GtH cell activity are restored in the fish exposed to short photoperiod if it is followed by a long photoperiod.
  • (2) Roadford Lake with over 730 acres for watersports, fishing and birdwatching plus paths and bridleways.
  • (3) External exposures to a contaminated fishing net and fishing boat are considered pathways for fishermen.
  • (4) Two fully matured specimens were collected from the blood vessel of two fish, Theragra chalcogramma, which was bought at the Emun market of Seoul in May, 1985.
  • (5) The telencephalon of teleost fish shows high affinity uptake for D-[3H]aspartate, intermediate levels of GABAergic markers and low levels of cholinergic enzymes.
  • (6) The authors present the first results on the utilization of fish infusion (IFP) as a basic medium for the cultivation of bacteria.
  • (7) In telecost fishes, the corpuscles of Stannius contain Bowie-stainable granules and a renin-like pressor substance.
  • (8) Fish were trained monocularly via the compressed or the normal visual field using an aversive classical conditioning model.
  • (9) Alternatively, try the Hawaii Fish O nights, every Friday from 26 July until the end of August, featuring a one-hour paddleboard lesson, followed by a fish-and-chip supper looking out over the waves you've just battled (£16.75).
  • (10) Small and medium fish swim up when stressed, whereas larger fish swim down.
  • (11) Macron hit back on Twitter, saying her proposals to take France out of the EU would destroy France’s fishing industry.
  • (12) Careless Herbicidal aerial spray of a field for weed control and defoliation of cotton before machine picking, resulted in the contamination of an adjoining reservoir, killing large volume of fish.
  • (13) The function of these triple cones can not be deduced from the behavior patterns of these fishes.
  • (14) Both fatty acid composition and the degree of lipid peroxidation were measured in this study in 23 OTC fish oil preparations.
  • (15) The possibility of mammalian mitochondria functioning in fish embryos has been studied.
  • (16) Instead, they say, we should only eat plenty of lean meat and fish, with fruit and raw vegetables on the side.
  • (17) The nerve endings in the heart of fishes were studied using silver impregnation techniques.
  • (18) As for fish attractiveness, motion, freshness, size, color and species were found as important parameters in the food-preference mechanism.
  • (19) Interest in the antithrombotic potential of diets enriched with fish oil-derived polyunsaturated fatty acids (omega-3 PUFAs) prompted us to examine how these fatty acids, when taken preoperatively, affect hemostasis, plasma lipid levels, and production of prostacyclin (PGI2) by vascular tissues in atherosclerotic patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery.
  • (20) The olfactory organs of fishes are diversely developed.

Shoal


Definition:

  • (n.) A great multitude assembled; a crowd; a throng; -- said especially of fish; as, a shoal of bass.
  • (v. i.) To assemble in a multitude; to throng; as, the fishes shoaled about the place.
  • (a.) Having little depth; shallow; as, shoal water.
  • (n.) A place where the water of a sea, lake, river, pond, etc., is shallow; a shallow.
  • (n.) A sandbank or bar which makes the water shoal.
  • (v. i.) To become shallow; as, the color of the water shows where it shoals.
  • (v. t.) To cause to become more shallow; to come to a more shallow part of; as, a ship shoals her water by advancing into that which is less deep.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) China and the Philippines had a tense maritime standoff at a shoal west of the main Philippine island of Luzon early this year.
  • (2) Among their choicest memories from last year, they tell me, are watching shoals of goldfish swim down their street, and coming home to find Derrick's model boat collection bobbing on the deluge.
  • (3) Philippine fishing vessels are back in the waters of Scarborough Shoal.
  • (4) Christian Rynning-Tønnesen, chief executive of Statkraft, the Norwegian power utility that has invested in Sheringham Shoal, said the UK's wind resources and regulatory regime made it the most attractive location in Europe for offshore wind investors.
  • (5) As additional criteria the shoaling behaviour of the fishes is quantified and evaluated by the system.
  • (6) The MCS said the best choice now is Cornish mackerel caught by "hand-line", with British, European or Norwegian mackerel that is "pelagic-caught" – caught in shoals – as the best alternative.
  • (7) The people of Great Britain, with the co-ordination of a shoal of mullet, didn’t just put the Lewisham and Greenwich choir in with a bullet, they made sure to buy enough of Bieber’s own work that his generous spirit would be rewarded with chart spots two, three and five.
  • (8) But now, of course, everyone's doing it – and if you can really contemplate spending an entire evening out of your painfully short life watching Ocean Colour Scene plod through Moseley Shoals then, honestly, get some help.
  • (9) Last week, a shoal of headlines further indicated that for our young (and the United Nations defines "young" as under 25), the report card continues to read: "Could do very much better."
  • (10) Manila regards Second Thomas Shoal, which lies 105 nautical miles (195 km) southwest of the Philippine region of Palawan, as being within its 200-nautical mile exclusive economic zone.
  • (11) Isolated individuals detached from the shoals become immobile from the moment in which they separate from the bacterial group they belonged to ("immunobilization reaction").
  • (12) Davey attended the opening of the UK's latest offshore windfarm off the north Norfolk coast on Thursday, a £1.2bn projected called Sheringham Shoal .
  • (13) It was like a horror movie … he kept trying to talk,” Shoals said.
  • (14) He was widely regarded as having the right experience, deft touch and nous to navigate the shoals and shifting currents of continental politics that would buffet the British ship of state as it left its European berth.
  • (15) The highly automated system allows to quantify and assess changes in the behaviour patterns of a small shoal of test fishes.
  • (16) He saw a shoal of porpoises and a stormy petrel skimming over the waves and read "Humboldt's glowing accounts of tropical scenery.
  • (17) His team has seen humpbacks “lunge feeding”, where the whales rise up under giant shoals and take hundreds of thousands of pounds of fish into their mouths in one gulp, filtering out the seawater through their baleen grills and swallowing the fish.
  • (18) The film was shot near coral reefs that fringe the tiny Pescador Island where huge shoals of sardines draw sharks to the area.
  • (19) The Philippine navy is quietly reinforcing the hull and deck of a rusting ship it ran aground on a disputed South China Sea reef in 1999 to stop it breaking apart, determined to hold the shoal as Beijing creates a string of man-made islands nearby.
  • (20) If there are more bilateral negotiations between China and other claimants then a Trump administration, heavily occupied with North Korea and Isis, won’t be elevating disputes over shoals and reefs in south-east Asia.