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Shoals is best known for the Jug Rock, the USA's largest free-standing table rock formation East of the Mississippi River.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Shoals, Indiana."
"SHOALS" is a plural of: shoal. |
Date "SHOALS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1601. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Difficulty | Under a difficulty; in a box; in difficulty, in hot water, in the suds, in a cleft stick, in a fix, in the wrong box, in a scrape; Noun: in deep water, in a fine pickle; in extremis; between two stools, between Scylla and Charybdis; surrounded by shoals, surrounded by breakers, surrounded by quicksands; at cross purposes; not out of the wood. |
Pitfall | Noun: rocks, reefs, coral reef, sunken rocks, snags; sands, quicksands; syrt, syrtis; Goodwin sands, sandy foundation; slippery ground; breakers, shoals, shallows, bank, shelf, flat, lee shore, ironbound coast; rock ahead, breakers ahead. |
Shallowness | Noun: shallowness; Adjective: shoals; mere scratch. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: SHOALS |
| English words defined with "SHOALS": Atlantic herring ♦ beacon, beacon light ♦ Clupea harengus harengus, Conder ♦ Floating light ♦ lighthouse ♦ open ♦ pharos ♦ reefy ♦ Sea chart, shelfy, shelvy, shoal, shoaly. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "SHOALS": barge captain, braided river ♦ MASTER, PASSENGER BARGE, MASTER, RIVERBOAT ♦ riverboat captain ♦ shallowing ♦ TUGBOAT CAPTAIN, TUGBOAT MATE ♦ wire drag. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Crimson Shoals (1919) | |
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Ship on Nantucket Shoals that was subsequently blown up Fathometer record of remains of ship. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. | Islands in the sun Islands, tidal passages, and shoals set in an azure to emerald sea. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. | ||
Giant sandwaves as seen from NOAA helicopter during SHOALS Lidar. Credit: America's Coastlines. | Niagara Falls as seen during Shoals Lidar survey of Niagara River. Credit: America's Coastlines. | ||
The result of changes of water temperature on fisheries is significant. As water temperatures rise and nutrient levels decline, shoals of cold-water-loving small pelagics scatter and descend to depths of 150 to 200 meters, where they are not accessible to traditional surface purse seiners, or they migrate south. Credit: Fisheries. | Bell 212 helicopter equipped with SHOALS Lidar sounding system off Cancun, Mexico. Credit: Flying With NOAA. | ||
An early example of Coast Survey Notice to Mariners. This newspaper clipping was pasted in: "The American Light-house Guide with Sailing Directions" by Robert Mills, 1845. The notice, dated August 16, 1848 was meant to update and correct information on Nantucket Shoals. Library Call Number VK1022.M65 1845. Credit: Treasures of the Library. | East elevation; section. Measured drawing delineated by Judith E. Collins, 1989. (Reproduction Number: HABS, NC-357, sheet 2 of 13) Since December 1870 this black-and-white-striped lighthouse has been helping mariners make their way through the Diamond Shoals off the North Carolina coast. At 208 feet, it is the tallest brick lighthouse in the United States. In 1999, the National Park Service moved the lighthouse 2,900 feet inland to a new site in an effort to keep it from toppling into the Atlantic Ocean. The controversial relocation project took twenty-three days to execute. The light was reactivated on November 13, 1999. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Underway off the Isle of Shoals, 5 April 1954. Credit: NAVY. | Boat landing at Oceanic, Isles of Shoals, N.H. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Economic History | Mauritius | Dependencies: Rodrigues Island, the Agalega Islands and Cargados Carajos Shoals; Mauritius also claims sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago, part of the British Indian Ocean Territory, where U.S. Naval Base Diego Garcia is located. (references) |
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John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 | On the survey of the Muscle Shoals, in the Tennessee River, and for a route for a contemplated communication between the Hiwassee and Coosa rivers, in the State of Alabama. |
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| "SHOALS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SHOALS" is used about 135 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 100% | 135 | 27,360 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "SHOALS" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Shoals | Last name | 300 | 27,104 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
1. Shoals, IN (town, FIPS 69552) |
Expressions using "SHOALS": bull Shoals ♦ Granite Shoals ♦ High Shoals ♦ in shoals ♦ Mill Shoals ♦ Muscle Shoals ♦ North High Shoals ♦ Shoals Junction ♦ shoals of ♦ Tumbling Shoals ♦ Ware Shoals. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "SHOALS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | أفواج. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 浅滩 (Fords, shoal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | grundt vand, grund (bottom, foundation, ground). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | ondiepten. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | matalikko (shallow, shoal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | seuils, hauts-fonds, bancs. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Untiefen, Schwärme (bevies, swarms). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ξέρα (reef), ουδός. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | folyami zátonyok (river shoals). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 여울목 (shoal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oalsshay banco de areia (hurst, shallow, shoal). (various references) убывать отмель. (various references) bajo fondo (shallow water, shallows, shoal). (various references) grynna (sunken rock), grunt ställe, grund (bank, basic, basis, behalf, bottom, cause, cay, footing, foundation, ground, root, shallow, shoal, soil, superficial). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"SHOALS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: shaalds, shalls, shaol, shauls, shola, shorls, shoule, Shuala, skoal, tsvolas. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "SHOALS" (pronounced shō"lz) |
| 3 | -ō" l z | boles, bolls, bowls, coals, Coles, consoles, controls, creoles, doles, enrolls, extols, goals, holes, joles, kohls, moles, oles, paroles, patrols, poles, polls, pols, roles, rolls, scrolls, soles, souls, strolls, toles, tolls, voles, wholes. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-h-l-o-s-s" | |
-1 letter: halos, lasso, shoal, slash, slosh. | |
-2 letters: also, halo, hols, lash, lass, loss, ossa, sals, sash, sola, sols. | |
-3 letters: als, ash, ass, hao, has, las, ohs, sal, sha, sol, sos. | |
-4 letters: ah, al, as, ha, ho, la, lo, oh, os, sh, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-h-l-o-s-s" | |
+1 letter: asshole, shaloms. | |
+2 letters: alphosis, assholes, galoshes, gasohols, haploses, haplosis, salchows, scholars, shallops, shallots, shallows, shoalest. | |
+3 letters: abolishes, alehouses, almshouse, asphodels, basophils, coalsheds, eschalots, goulashes, halitoses, halitosis, holdfasts, hospitals, hourglass, loathness, sallowish, scholiast, shadblows, shalloons, shiploads, shoaliest, shoelaces, shoptalks, washbowls. | |
+4 letters: abolishers, almshouses, alphosises, anchorless, basophiles, coalfishes, falsehoods, fathomless, flashovers, gasholders, glasshouse, hailstones, hailstorms, harborless, hawseholes, heliostats, holocausts, horseplays, horsetails, housecarls, hydrolases, hypoblasts, jailhouses, lakeshores, leaseholds, omphaloses, onslaughts, playhouses, plowshares, sackcloths, sailcloths, scholastic, scholiasts, schoolbags, shadowless, shallowest, shoeblacks, shortfalls, showplaces, solonchaks, southlands, splashdown, stalworths, statoliths, telophases, trehaloses, washcloths, wholesales. | |
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