Shark
[ʃɑːk] or [ʃɑrk]
Definition
(noun.) any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales.
(noun.) a person who is unusually skilled in certain ways; 'a card shark'.
(noun.) a person who is ruthless and greedy and dishonest.
(verb.) hunt shark.
(verb.) play the shark; act with trickery.
Typist: Thaddeus--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t. & i.) Any one of numerous species of elasmobranch fishes of the order Plagiostomi, found in all seas.
(v. t. & i.) A rapacious, artful person; a sharper.
(v. t. & i.) Trickery; fraud; petty rapine; as, to live upon the shark.
(v. t.) To pick or gather indiscriminately or covertly.
(v. i.) To play the petty thief; to practice fraud or trickery; to swindle.
(v. i.) To live by shifts and stratagems.
Edited by Janet
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Sharper, cheat, swindler, blackleg, knave, trickster, slyboots, jockey, SHYSTER, artful fellow.
Editor: Lorna
Definition
n. a common name for most of the Elasmobranch fishes included in the sub-order Selachoidei—voracious fishes mostly carnivorous with large sharp teeth on the jaws—most numerous in the tropics.
n. a sharper a cheat or swindler: an extortionate rogue.—v.i. to live like a swindler.—v.t. to pick up (with up or out).—ns. Shark′er; Shark′ing.
Editor: Melinda
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of sharks, denotes formidable enemies. To see a shark pursuing and attacking you, denotes that unavoidable reverses will sink you into dispondent foreboding. To see them sporting in clear water, foretells that while you are basking in the sunshine of women and prosperity, jealousy is secretly, but surely, working you disquiet, and unhappy fortune. To see a dead one, denotes reconciliation and renewed prosperity.
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Examples
- This groom is the pilot-fish before the nobler shark. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Shark, remarked the captain pleasantly after a moment’s scrutiny. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- There are no fish of the shark tribe in the Bower waters? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- There is an unconscionable old shark for you! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Where would be the use of his bringing us a charade made by a friend upon a mermaid or a shark? Jane Austen. Emma.
- And shark-headers is open to misrepresentations. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- They _are_ shaped like sharks, Robert Jordan thought, the wide-finned, sharp-nosed sharks of the Gulf Stream. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- In no case has a battle taken place between two of these armed sharks except in the one instance reported of an Austrian sinking an Italian submarine. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- A little breeze came up and the brig drew away from the pirates, leaving the two proas to pick up those Malays from the water that the sharks had missed. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- We saw the usual sharks, blackfish, porpoises, &c. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Mermaids and sharks! Jane Austen. Emma.
- But lawyers, sharks, and leeches, are not easily satisfied, you know! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- But these, wide-finned in silver, roaring, the light mist of their propellers in the sun, these do not move like sharks. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
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