Shoal vs Covery - What's the difference?
shoal | covery |
Shallow.
* 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , III.19:
A sandbank or sandbar creating a shallow.
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, title= * Dryden
A shallow in a body of water.
* Mortimer
* Shakespeare
To arrive at a shallow (or less deep) area.
To cause a shallowing; to come to a more shallow part of.
To become shallow.
Any large number of persons or things.
* Francis Bacon
A large number of fish (or other sea creatures) of the same species swimming together.
* Waller
(rare) a dispelling of false or misleading notions
* J. B. S. Haldane (1937). "Forward",
As nouns the difference between shoal and covery
is that shoal is a sandbank or sandbar creating a shallow while covery is a dispelling of false or misleading notions.As an adjective shoal
is shallow.As a verb shoal
is to arrive at a shallow (or less deep) area.shoal
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) schold, scholde, from (etyl) . Compare (shallow).Alternative forms
* (l) (dialectal) * (l), (l), (l), (l), (l), (l) (Scotland) * (l), (l), (l)Adjective
(en adjective)- shoal water
- But that part of the coast being shoal and bare, / And rough with reefs which ran out many a mile, / His port lay on the other side o' the isle.
Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage='Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.}}
- The god himself with ready trident stands, / And opes the deep, and spreads the moving sands, / Then heaves them off the shoals .
- The depth of your pond should be six feet; and on the sides some shoals for the fish to lay their spawn.
- Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory, / And sounded all the depths and shoals of honour.
Synonyms
* (sandbank) sandbar, sandbankVerb
(en verb)- A ship shoals her water by advancing into that which is less deep. — Marryat.
- The colour of the water shows where it shoals .
Etymology 2
1570, presumably from (etyl) *.Noun
(en noun)- great shoals of people
- Beneath, a shoal of silver fishes glides.
Synonyms
* (fish) schoolAnagrams
* * * English collective nounscovery
English
Noun
(coveries)Recent Advances in Geneticsby C. D. Darlington, p. vi.
- This book is indispensable not only because of the discoveries it describes, but almost equally on account of the coveries', to borrow a word from Samuel Butler. A fundamental ' covery is that the expressions "reductional division" and "equational division," those bogies of our schooldays, are meaningless.
References
* Samuel Butler (1921). "The Art of Covery",The Note-books of Samuel Butler*: The Art of Covery: This is as important and interesting as Dis-covery. Surely the glory of finally getting rid of and burying a long and troublesome matter should be as great as that of making an important discovery. The trouble is that the coverer is like Samson who perished in the wreck of what he had destroyed; if he gets rid of a thing effectually he gets rid of himself too.