shark

shark

shark (third-person singular simple present sharks, present participle sharking, simple past and past participle sharked)

1. (obsolete) To steal or obtain through fraud.

shark (plural sharks)

1. A scaleless fish of the superorder Selachimorpha, with a cartilaginous skeleton that has 5 to 7 gill slits on each side of its head.
   • 1569, The true discripcion of this marueilous strange Fishe, whiche was taken on Thursday was sennight, the xvj. day of June, this present month, in the yeare of our Lord God, M.D.lxix., a broadside printed in London, the earliest known use of the term; reprinted in A Collection of Seventy-Nine Black-Letter Ballads and Broadsides: printed in the reigh of Queen Elizabeth, between the years 1559 and 1597 in 1867:

     The straunge fishe is in length xvij. foote and iij. foote broad, and in compas about the bodie vj. foote; and is round snowted, short headdid, hauing iij. rankes of teeth on either iawe, [...]. Also it hath v. gills of eache side of the head, shoing white. Ther is no proper name for it that I know, but that sertayne men of Captayne Haukinses doth call it a sharke.

   • 2011 October 13, AP, “Man surfs great white shark”, The Guarsian:

     He said he had spoken to a woman who was kayaking off Catalina Island, California, in 2008 when a shark slammed her kayak from underneath and sent her flying into the air. She then landed on the back of the shark, Collier said. ""At that point the shark started to swim out to sea, so she jumped off its back,"" Collier said.

	squalo
	person who feigns ineptitude
	scaleless cartilaginous fish
	A scaleless fish with a cartilaginous skeleton that has 5 to 7 gill slits on each side of its head.

pescecane

selachimorpha

Altri significati:

(informal) A very good pool player.

(informal) A relentless and resolute person or group, especially in business.

(sports and games) A person who feigns ineptitude to win money from others.

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

(obsolete) To steal or obtain through fraud.

(informal, derogatory) A sleazy and amoral lawyer; an ambulance chaser.

Traduzione 'veloce'

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