Shoal vs Island - What's the difference?
shoal | island |
Shallow.
* 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , III.19:
A sandbank or sandbar creating a shallow.
*
, 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
A contiguous area of land, smaller than a continent, totally surrounded by water.
* 2002 , Gordon L. Rottman, World War 2 Pacific island guide
An entity surrounded by other entities that are very different from itself.
* 1939 , Deseret News, October 27 1939, Roosevelt Reaffirms American Neutrality
A superstructure on an aircraft carrier's deck.
(chiefly, UK) A traffic island.
To surround with water; make into an island
* 1933 , Harriet Monroe, Poetry: Volume 42
To set, dot (as if) with islands
To isolate
* , (A Shropshire Lad), XXVII, lines 1-2
As nouns the difference between shoal and island
is that shoal is a sandbank or sandbar creating a shallow while island is a contiguous area of land, smaller than a continent, totally surrounded by water.As verbs the difference between shoal and island
is that shoal is to arrive at a shallow (or less deep) area while island is to surround with water; make into an island.As an adjective shoal
is shallow.As a proper noun Island is
long Island (in New York State.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 nounsisland
English
Alternative forms
* (l) (nonstandard) * (l), (l), (l) (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- Sumatra is the second largest island in the East Indies and the fourth largest in the world covering 182,859 square miles.
- an island of tranquility (a calm place surrounded by a noisy environment)
- an island of colour on a butterfly's wing
- King Leopold, speaking in fluent English during his six minute broadcast, said Belgium stood side by side with Holland "an Island of peace in the interests of all"
- the island in the middle of a roundabout
Synonyms
* (land surrounded by water) (l), (l) * (an entity surrounded by other very different entities) oasisDerived terms
* coney island * desert island * floating island * heat island * high island * interisland * islander * island dispenser * island display * island-hop * island position * island state * island universe * islandwide * islandy * low island * no man is an island * safety island * security island * the Island * sea-island * tidal islandVerb
(en verb)- We paused at little river cities along the way and walked upon their bushy dikes, and heard tales of overflows in flood seasons, when four feet or more of water islanded the houses.
- ''High the vanes of (Shrewsbury) gleam
- Islanded in Severn stream''.