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How to pronounce “shark”
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Pronunciation guide for shark
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of shark with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Filmmaker, Photographer & Conservationist
he's behind the movies Sharkwater and
- Definition summary
- (ichthyology, countable) Any predatory fish of the superorder Selachimorpha, with a cartilaginous skeleton and 5 to 7 gill slits on each side of its head.
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How to pronounce shark
Filmmaker, Photographer & Conservationist
he's behind the movies Sharkwater and
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “shark”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (ichthyology, countable) Any predatory fish of the superorder Selachimorpha, with a cartilaginous skeleton and 5 to 7 gill slits on each side of its head.
- (uncountable) Flesh of this animal, consumed as food.
- (paleontology, loosely) Any fish of the class Chondrichthyes, especially an extinct shark-like holocephalian.
- A freshwater fish that resembles a true shark (Selachimorpha) in appearance or movement; a freshwater shark.
- (countable) A noctuid moth of species Cucullia umbratica.
- (UK, university slang, countable) A university student who is not a fresher that has engaged in sexual activity with a fresher; usually habitually and with multiple people.
- [Verb]
- (intransitive, rare) To fish for sharks.
- (UK, university slang, mildly derogatory) Of a university student who is not a fresher (first-year undergraduate), and especially towards the start of the academic year:
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