Shark

What do we mean by shark?

Any of numerous cartilaginous fishes of the subclass Elasmobranchii that are chiefly carnivorous and marine. Sharks have a streamlined torpedolike body, five to seven gill openings on each side of the head, a large oil-filled liver, and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales. noun

A person, such as a loan shark, who takes advantage of the misfortune of others for personal gain. noun

A person unusually skilled in a particular activity. noun

To obtain by deceitful or underhand means. intransitive verb

To take advantage of others for personal gain, especially by fraud and trickery. intransitive verb

To play the shark or needy adventurer; live by one's wits; depend on or practise the shifts and stratagems of a needy adventurer; swindle: sometimes with an impersonal it: as, to shark for a living.

To pick up; obtain or get together by sharking: with up or out.

A selachian of the subclass Plagiostomi, of an elongate form, with the pectoral fins moderately developed, the branchial apertures lateral, and the mouth inferior (rarely terminal). noun

To fish for or catch sharks.

A sharper; a cheat; a greedy, dishonest fellow who eagerly preys upon others; a rapacious swindler. noun

The sharp practice and petty shifts and stratagems of a swindler or needy adventurer. noun

To pick or gather indiscriminately or covertly. transitive verb

To play the petty thief; to practice fraud or trickery; to swindle. intransitive verb

To live by shifts and stratagems. intransitive verb

Any one of numerous species of elasmobranch fishes of the order Plagiostomi, found in all seas. noun

A rapacious, artful person; a sharper. noun

Trickery; fraud; petty rapine. noun

See under Basking, Liver, etc. See also Dogfish, Houndfish, Notidanian, and Tope. noun

A scaleless, predatory fish of the superorder Selachimorpha, with a cartilaginous skeleton and 5 to 7 gill slits on each side of its head.

Words that are spelled similarly to shark:
shark, share, sharp, stark, spark, snark, shank, shack, shirk, shard, hark, sark, chark, shari, shar, sharm, shaik, sharn, shara, sharf, slark, shak, shart, sharak, sherk, sharc, sharq, shars, smark, sharr, shary, shurk.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word shark:
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Words that rhyme with shark:
mark, park, dark, arc, stark, bark, spark, benchmark, lark, embark, hallmark, snark, landmark, oligarch, monarch, remark, patriarch, ark, marc, quark, aardvark, earmark, ballpark, marque, clark, hark, narc, trademark, matriarch, disembark, skylark, barque, watermark, bismarck, merc, birthmark, sark, check mark, arche, demark, meadowlark, denmark, parc, chark, pockmark, sparc, postmark, hash mark, ozark, clarke, bismark, yarke, hashmark, exclamation mark, diacritical mark, amusement park, garch, question mark, starc, caustic remark, harc, barch, bsarch, saarc, car park, bench mark, national park, starke, goldmark, yosemite national park, punctuation mark, quotation mark, accent mark, barke, parke, marke, reflex arc, trailer park, central park, chatter mark, deutsche mark, yellowstone national park, ripple mark, stress mark, karch, electric arc, letter of marque, starck, stretch mark, strawberry mark, wide of the mark, male monarch, cinnamon bark, cassia bark, strange quark, darke, ditto mark, lexmark, dollar mark, industrial park.

Adjectives that are often used to describe shark:
white, great, large, blue, small, big, foot, huge, lemon, eating, hungry, dead, young, giant, enormous, largest, headed, female, gray, grey, black, occasional, male, ravenous, water, pound, biggest, nosed, frilled, dusky, dangerous, brown, sea, fossil, dried, voracious, live, gigantic, whale, primitive, oceanic, fresh, porbeagle, mechanical, tipped, monstrous, sized, typical, freshwater, silky, atlantic, blacktip, gummy, spiny, harmless, gilled, land, soupfin, pelagic, head, cutter, immense, leopard, scalloped, smallest, rare, horned, greedy, hammerhead, basking, caribbean, aged, tailed, aggressive.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective shark:
liver, skin, fishing, cartilage, oil, teeth, meat, fins, attacks, hook, god, bait, eye, man, tooth, attack, feeding, hunting, hooks, charmer, nets, flesh, repellents, bites, charmers, catching, food, leather, fisheries, steak, ship, skins, mouth, eyes, suckers, bill, steaks, rates, cage, business, repellent, fishermen, gladas, headers, oils, fin, species, calling, populations, gods, operations, eggs, ray, hunter, livers, measures, money, fish, bite, alert, watcher, infested, operation, hunters, experts, skeletons, sightings, jaw, tribe, stories, blood, denticles, hunt, racket, nose, vertebrae, seer, attraction, yells, measure, pilots, fishers, sharks, bay, territory, season, finning, dive, grease, quesadillas, plagiosum, pups, papers, bone, jaws.

Consonant match to shark:
schork.

Words that sound like shark:
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