shoal
滩涂,浅滩,岸边,沿海地区
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Definitions
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- : 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.
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- : of little depth, as water; shallow.
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- : to become shallow or more shallow.
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Examples
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.