SHARK

Pronunciation (US):

• SHARK (noun)
  The noun SHARK has 3 senses:

1. any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales
2. a person who is ruthless and greedy and dishonest
3. a person who is unusually skilled in certain ways

  Familiarity information: SHARK used as a noun is uncommon.

• SHARK (verb)
  The verb SHARK has 2 senses:

1. play the shark; act with trickery
2. hunt shark

  Familiarity information: SHARK used as a verb is rare.

• SHARK (noun)

Meaning:

Any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("shark" is a kind of...):

elasmobranch; selachian (any of numerous fishes of the class Chondrichthyes characterized by a cartilaginous skeleton and placoid scales: sharks; rays; skates)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "shark"):

cow shark; Hexanchus griseus; six-gilled shark (large primitive shark widely distributed in warm seas)

angel shark; angelfish; monkfish; Squatina squatina (sharks with broad flat bodies and winglike pectoral fins but that swim the way sharks do)

hammerhead; hammerhead shark (medium-sized live-bearing shark with eyes at either end of a flattened hammer-shaped head; worldwide in warm waters; can be dangerous)

dogfish (any of several small sharks)

requiem shark (any of numerous sharks from small relatively harmless bottom-dwellers to large dangerous oceanic and coastal species)

cat shark (small bottom-dwelling sharks with catlike eyes; found along continental slopes)

Rhincodon typus; whale shark (large spotted shark of warm surface waters worldwide; resembles a whale and feeds chiefly on plankton)

Carcharias taurus; Odontaspis taurus; sand shark; sand tiger (shallow-water shark with sharp jagged teeth found on both sides of Atlantic; sometimes dangerous to swimmers)

Ginglymostoma cirratum; nurse shark (small bottom-dwelling shark of warm shallow waters on both coasts of North America and South America and from southeast Asia to Australia)

carpet shark; Orectolobus barbatus (shark of the western Pacific with flattened body and mottled skin)

Alopius vulpinus; fox shark; thrasher; thresher; thresher shark (large pelagic shark of warm seas with a whiplike tail used to round up small fish on which to feed)

mackerel shark (fierce pelagic and oceanic sharks)

Meaning:

A person who is ruthless and greedy and dishonest

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("shark" is a kind of...):

offender; wrongdoer (a person who transgresses moral or civil law)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "shark"):

loan shark; moneylender; shylock; usurer (someone who lends money at excessive rates of interest)

Meaning:

A person who is unusually skilled in certain ways

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Context example:

a card shark

Hypernyms ("shark" is a kind of...):

expert (a person with special knowledge or ability who performs skillfully)

• SHARK (verb)

Meaning:

Play the shark; act with trickery

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "shark" is one way to...):

cheat; chisel (engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Meaning:

Hunt shark

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Hypernyms (to "shark" is one way to...):

fish (catch or try to catch fish or shellfish)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Sentence example:

In the summer they like to go out and shark