SHOAL Synonyms

• a grouping of a number of similar things

• come together as in a cluster or flock

• gather or cause to gather into a cluster

• a large number of things or people considered together

• an informal body of friends

• cause to herd, drive, or crowd together

• fill or occupy to the point of overflowing

• to gather together in large numbers

• approach a certain age or speed

• a church congregation guided by a pastor

• a group of birds

• (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent

• an orderly crowd

• a group of sheep or goats

• move as a crowd or in a group

• come together as in a cluster or flock

• a group of persons together in one place

• the social act of assembling

• the act of gathering something

• sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching

• any number of entities (members) considered as a unit

• (chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule

• a set that is closed, associative, has an identity element and every element has an inverse

• arrange into a group or groups

• form a group or group together

• a large indefinite quantity

• a large gathering of people

• the common people generally

• a large indefinite quantity

• a complete collection of similar things

• a convenient package or parcel (as of cigarettes or film)

• an association of criminals

• an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose

• a group of hunting animals

• a cream that cleanses and tones the skin

• a sheet or blanket (either dry or wet) to wrap around the body for its therapeutic effect

• a bundle (especially one carried on the back)

• arrange in a container

• fill to capacity

• compress into a wad

• carry, as on one's back

• set up a committee or legislative body with one's own supporters so as to influence the outcome

• have with oneself; have on one's person

• press tightly together or cram

• hike with a backpack

• press down tightly

• seal with packing

• have the property of being packable or of compacting easily

• load with a pack

• treat the body or any part of it by wrapping it, as with blankets or sheets, and applying compresses to it, or stuffing it to provide cover, containment, or therapy, or to absorb blood

• a moving crowd

• a group of many things in the air or on the ground

• be teeming, be abuzz

• move in large numbers

• lacking physical depth; having little spatial extension downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or outward from a center

• not deep or strong; not affecting one deeply

• a stretch of shallow water

• lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with what is obvious

• make shallow

• become shallow

• an educational institution

• a building where young people receive education

• the process of being formally educated at a school

• a body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers

• the period of instruction in a school; the time period when school is in session

• an educational institution's faculty and students

• a large group of fish

• educate in or as if in a school

• teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment

• swim in or form a large group of fish

• a submerged bank of sand near a shore or in a river; can be exposed at low tide