Beach
[biːtʃ] or [bitʃ]
Definition
(noun.) an area of sand sloping down to the water of a sea or lake.
(verb.) land on a beach; 'the ship beached near the port'.
Typist: Lucas--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Pebbles, collectively; shingle.
(n.) The shore of the sea, or of a lake, which is washed by the waves; especially, a sandy or pebbly shore; the strand.
(v. t.) To run or drive (as a vessel or a boat) upon a beach; to strand; as, to beach a ship.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Shore, coast, strand, seaboard, seacoast.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Shore, coast, strand, seacoast, seaboard, seashore
ANT:Sea, ocean, deep, main
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Definition
n. the shore of the sea or of a lake esp. when sandy or pebbly: the strand.—v.t. to haul a boat up on the beach.—n. Beach′-comb′er a long rolling wave: a drunken loafer about the wharfs in Pacific seaports: a settler on a Pacific island who maintains himself by pearl-fishery and often by less reputable means.—adjs. Beached having a beach driven on a beach; Beach′y pebbly.
Checker: Zelig
Unserious Contents or Definition
A strip of sand, skirted by water; covered with lady-killers in summer, life-savers in winter, and used as a haven—or heaven—for Smacks the year around.
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Examples
- She ran along the sea beach, believing the old boat was theer; and calling out to us to turn away our faces, for she was a-coming by. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Would he take her back to the beach or would he keep her here? Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- At one end he built a fireplace of small stones from the beach. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Numbers of people were there before me, all running in one direction, to the beach. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- It was a pretty picture: the beach; the bathing-women's faces; the long line of rocks and building were blushing and bright in the sunshine. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Ten yokes of oxen dragging a boat with sails out of the sea in the morning with the line of the small waves breaking on the beach. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Some of the many kinds of animals which live on the beach between high and low water mark seem to be rarely preserved. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Others, less injured and still in fighting trim, were making for the beaches close beneath him that would bring them under the protection of his army. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Most of the sands which we find on the beaches and in other places are the ruins of rocks which have come apart, usually as the result of the action of water. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- To that had life progressed 3000 or 4000 years ago from its starting-place in the slime of the tidal beaches. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Let us only note that they all agree that life began where the tides of those swift days spread and receded over the steaming beaches of mud and sand. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The first jelly-like beginnings of life must have perished whenever they got out of the water, as jelly-fish dry up and perish on our beaches to-day. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In addition to the sands on the beaches, they occur very abundantly in many inland locations, which were formerly sea bottoms, and very extensively in the great deserts of the world. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The toilers of the sea ran in and beached their barque. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- When the two boats were beached upon the silvery sand it was a strange assortment of humanity that clambered ashore. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
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