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# shark

«shark» in Mova's school dictionary: **a large fish with a long body, fins, rows of sharp teeth…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a shark, sharks)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A shark is a large fish with a long body, fins, rows of sharp teeth and a skeleton made of cartilage instead of bone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shark/#m1)

2) Informally, a shark is a person who cheats others out of money, like a loan shark. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shark/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science, sharks are fish that breathe with gills, are predators at the top of the ocean food chain and keep losing and growing new teeth. Types: great white, hammerhead, whale shark (the largest fish). In safety at the beach in Australia and elsewhere: swim between the flags, leave the water if there is a shark alarm. In stories they are often shown as monsters. Phrases: shark attack, shark net, loan shark.

### examples

- The shark swam close to the boat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shark/#x1)
- Sharks have many rows of teeth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shark/#x2)
- The whale shark is the biggest fish in the sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shark/#x3)
- Swim between the flags at the beach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shark/#x4)
- A hammerhead shark has a head shaped like a hammer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shark/#x5)
- Sharks breathe through gills. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shark/#x6)
- We saw sharks at the aquarium. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shark/#x7)
- Most sharks are not dangerous to people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shark/#x8)

### note

Countable: one shark, two sharks. A shark is a fish, not a mammal (unlike whales and dolphins). Myth: sharks do not hunt people on purpose; attacks are very rare. Their skeleton is cartilage, like your ears and nose.

### In the corpora

- [Fake photos of sharks swimming in flooded streets have spread after many hurricanes; they were edited or taken from somewhere else.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/21-filters-edits-and-fake-photos/7/)
- [Sharks lose teeth all the time and grow new ones from the rows behind, some tens of thousands in a lifetime.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/28-sharks/5/)
- [A shark's skeleton is made of cartilage, which is lighter and bendier than bone, so shark fossils are mostly teeth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/28-sharks/6/)
- [Sharks smell blood well, but the story that they can smell one drop from miles away is exaggerated.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/28-sharks/8/)
- [Sharks don't hunt humans; bites are very rare and often a mistake, and people kill around 100 million sharks a year.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/28-sharks/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «shark» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shark/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.