Shark vs. Boat — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Shark and Boat
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Shark
Sharks are a group of elasmobranch fish characterized by a cartilaginous skeleton, five to seven gill slits on the sides of the head, and pectoral fins that are not fused to the head. Modern sharks are classified within the clade Selachimorpha (or Selachii) and are the sister group to the rays.
Boat
A boat is a watercraft of a large range of types and sizes, but generally smaller than a ship, which is distinguished by its larger size, shape, cargo or passenger capacity, or its ability to carry boats. Small boats are typically found on inland waterways such as rivers and lakes, or in protected coastal areas.
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.
Boat
A relatively small, usually open craft of a size that might be carried aboard a ship.
Shark
(Informal)A person, such as a loan shark, who takes advantage of the misfortune of others for personal gain.
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Boat
An inland vessel of any size.
Shark
(Informal)A person unusually skilled in a particular activity
A card shark.
Boat
A ship or submarine.
Shark
To obtain by deceitful or underhand means.
Boat
A dish shaped like a boat
A sauce boat.
Shark
To take advantage of others for personal gain, especially by fraud and trickery.
Boat
To travel by boat.
Shark
(ichthyology) A scaleless, predatory fish of the superorder Selachimorpha, with a cartilaginous skeleton and 5 to 7 gill slits on each side of its head.
Boat
To ride a boat for pleasure.
Shark
The noctuid moth Cucullia umbratica.
Boat
To transport by boat.
Shark
A university student who is not a fresher that has engaged in sexual activity with a fresher; usually habitually and with multiple people.
Boat
To place in a boat.
Shark
Someone who exploits others, for example by trickery, lies, usury, extortion.
Boat
A craft used for transportation of goods, fishing, racing, recreational cruising, or military use on or in the water, propelled by oars or outboard motor or inboard motor or by wind.
Shark
A sleazy and amoral lawyer.
Boat
(poker slang) A full house.
Shark
An ambulance chaser.
Boat
A vehicle, utensil, or dish somewhat resembling a boat in shape.
A stone boat;
A gravy boat
Shark
(informal) A relentless and resolute person or group, especially in business.
Boat
(chemistry) One of two possible conformations of cyclohexane rings (the other being chair), shaped roughly like a boat.
Shark
(informal) A very good poker or pool player. Compare fish (a bad poker player).
Boat
The refugee boats arriving in Australian waters, and by extension, refugees generally.
Shark
A person who feigns ineptitude to win money from others.
Boat
(intransitive) To travel by boat.
Shark
(rare) To fish for sharks.
Boat
(transitive) To transport in a boat.
To boat goods
Shark
Of a university student who is not a fresher, to engage in sexual activity with a fresher, or to be at a bar or club with the general intention of engaging in such activity.
Boat
(transitive) To place in a boat.
To boat oars
Shark
(obsolete) To steal or obtain through fraud.
Boat
A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by cars or paddles, but often by a sail.
Shark
To play the petty thief; to practice fraud or trickery; to swindle.
Boat
Hence, any vessel; usually with some epithet descriptive of its use or mode of propulsion; as, pilot boat, packet boat, passage boat, advice boat, etc. The term is sometimes applied to steam vessels, even of the largest class; as, the Cunard boats.
Shark
To live by shifts and stratagems.
Boat
A vehicle, utensil, or dish, somewhat resembling a boat in shape; as, a stone boat; a gravy boat.
Shark
(obsolete) To pick or gather indiscriminately or covertly.
Boat
To transport in a boat; as, to boat goods.
Shark
Any one of numerous species of elasmobranch fishes of the order Plagiostomi, found in all seas.
Boat
To place in a boat; as, to boat oars.
Shark
A rapacious, artful person; a sharper.
Boat
To go or row in a boat.
I boated over, ran my craft aground.
Shark
Trickery; fraud; petty rapine; as, to live upon the shark.
Boat
A small vessel for travel on water
Shark
To pick or gather indiscriminately or covertly.
Boat
A dish (often boat-shaped) for serving gravy or sauce
Shark
To play the petty thief; to practice fraud or trickery; to swindle.
Neither sharks for a cup or a reckoning.
Boat
Ride in a boat on water
Shark
To live by shifts and stratagems.
Shark
Any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales
Shark
A person who is ruthless and greedy and dishonest
Shark
A person who is unusually skilled in certain ways;
A card shark
Shark
Play the shark; act with trickery
Shark
Hunt shark
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