Shallow
Meanings and phrases
shallow
- lacking physical depth; having little spatial extension downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or outward from a center
- not deep or strong; not affecting one deeply
- lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with what is obvious
shallow
- a stretch of shallow water; shoal
shallow
- make shallow; shoal
- become shallow; shoal
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- Sambar prefer to attack predators in shallow water.
- It is suspected to only live in shallow water.
- It is suspected only to live in shallow water.
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- It is found in shallow waters in the Caribbean Sea.
- It inhabits warm, shallow waters close to shore.
- It lives in shallow waters off the coast of New Guinea.
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- They can also be found in very shallow water on reef flats.
- Most of the Delta is very shallow water.
- It can be lifted up into the case when in very shallow water.
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- The lake is relatively shallow, with a maximum depth of .
- The hull was long and narrow, with a relatively shallow draft.
- It is also relatively shallow and warmer than the other Finger Lakes.
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- It is found in shallow waters in the Caribbean Sea.
- It is found in shallow water in the Indo-Pacific region.
- It is found in shallow, inshore habitats.
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- At the end of the Triassic, shallow seas transgressed over all of the Triassic basins.
- These sedimentary rocks formed in or near shallow seas roughly 300to 350million years ago.
- It is the smallest of the shallow seas around the continental shelf of Europe, covering an area of some .
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- Her shallow draught allowed her to operate in waters too shallow for the enemy U-boats.
- However, the water in Tucker Bayou next to the park was too shallow for the boat to dock there.
- Swamps and rivers made travel by land difficult, and the inlets and sounds were too shallow to allow big ships.
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- The formation has been deposited in a shallow marine environment.
- The formation has been deposited in a shallow marine environment in an oxygen-poor basin.
- The Imperial Formation preserves many corals as well as shallow marine invertebrates and vertebrates.
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- The southern mountain ranges drain to the south and west towards the shallow sea.
- The Tethys Sea was a shallow sea between the Asian continent and northward-bound Indian plate.
- This would have been in a warm, shallow sea which covered much of the Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire areas.
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- The hull was long and narrow, with a relatively shallow draft.
- They were typically very long and narrow and had a shallow draft.
- The later Mk II model offered an optional shallow draft keel of .
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- The Meare was dug to a shallow depth for safety reasons.
- The station is of shallow depth, in a pillar by-span design.
- They are recognizable for their nutmeg dusting and shallow depth in a disposable aluminum pan.
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- It breeds in ponds, wet rice fields, shallow lakes, drainage ditches and similar habitats.
- The habitat consists of savanna, "Brachystegia"-"Julbernardia" woodland, marshes and shallow lakes.
- "O. aquaticum" is endemic to the eastern United States and is found growing in ponds, streams, and shallow lakes.
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- The species occurs in shallow coastal habitats to deeper offshore.
- Atlantic sharpnose sharks prefer to live in warmer shallow coastal waters.
- The West Indian manatee inhabits mostly shallow coastal areas, including rivers and estuaries.
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- The shallow lake (maximum depth is ) lies at an elevation of .
- The Ljubljana Marsh was inhabited in prehistoric times, when it was a shallow lake.
- On the west side of the island there is a small shallow lake that produces salt in the dry season.
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- Finally she was buried in a shallow grave.
- Brisbane was buried in a shallow grave.
- Berry and Lozar then buried Mitroff in a shallow grave near a bridge and stole his van.