Coast
[kəʊst] or [kost]
Definition
(noun.) the area within view; 'the coast is clear'.
(noun.) a slope down which sleds may coast; 'when it snowed they made a coast on the golf course'.
(verb.) move effortlessly; by force of gravity.
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Definition
(v. t.) The side of a thing.
(v. t.) The exterior line, limit, or border of a country; frontier border.
(v. t.) The seashore, or land near it.
(n.) To draw or keep near; to approach.
(n.) To sail by or near the shore.
(n.) To sail from port to port in the same country.
(n.) To slide down hill; to slide on a sled, upon snow or ice.
(v. t.) To draw near to; to approach; to keep near, or by the side of.
(v. t.) To sail by or near; to follow the coast line of.
(v. t.) To conduct along a coast or river bank.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. [Rare.] Border, frontier.[2]. Shore, beach, strand, seaboard, seaside, seacoast.
v. n. [1]. Sail along the coast.[2]. Slide down a hill (on a sled).
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Definition
n. side or border of land next the sea: the seashore: limit or border of a country.—v.i. to sail along or near a coast: to travel downhill on a bicycle with the feet on the foot-rests.—v.t. to sail by or near to.—ns. Coast′er a vessel that sails along the coast; Coast′-guard a body of men organised to act as a guard along the coast originally intended to prevent smuggling.—adj. Coast′ing keeping near the coast: trading between ports in the same country.—n. the act of sailing or of trading along the coast: advances towards acquaintance courtship: riding downhill on a bicycle with the feet up.—ns. Coast′-line the line or boundary of a coast: shore-line; Coast′-wait′er a custom-house officer who waits upon and superintends the cargoes of vessels engaged in the coasting trade.—advs. Coastward -s toward the coast; Coast′wise along the coast.—adj. carried on along the coast.
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Examples
- We can go round by the coast, Mr. Franklin, said Betteredge; and get to the quicksand in that way with plenty of time to spare. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I myself caught one 370 miles from the coast of Africa, and have heard of others caught at greater distances. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- At that day fifty dollar gold pieces, not the issue of the government, were common on the Pacific coaSt. They were called slugs. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- This morning at breakfast he pointed out of the window and said: Do you see that there hill out there on that African coast? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- From the coast inland, stretch, between flowered lanes and hedges, rolling pasture-lands of rich green made all the more vivid by th e deep reddish tint of the ploughed fields. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- At the Cape Verde Islands he made some interesting observations of a white calcareous stratum which ran for miles along the coast at a height of a) bout forty-five feet above the water. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- On the coast near Valencia. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- From the towering lighthouses of our coasts its beams are thrown seaward, and a beacon for the mariner shines beyond all other lights. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- I cannot quit the coasts of Europe without taking leave of my ever dear friend Mr. Hartley. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- He asked, what business we had out of our own islands, unless upon the score of trade, or treaty, or to defend the coasts with our fleet? Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- But Scottish waters, and the waters around other coasts of the British Islands, had been traversed by steamboats before this celebrated trip of the _Savannah_. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Venice took much of the coasts and islands of the empire, and a Latin, Baldwin of Flanders, was set up as emperor in Constantinople. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Moreover, many Greek cities were on islands and scattered along remote coasts. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This is still being done on our sea coasts, but the salt obtained by evaporating the water is very crude and usually contains many impurities. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It was forbidden to build any ship larger than a mere coasting boat. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The greater part, both of the exportation and coasting trade of America, is carried on by the capitals of merchants who reside in Great Britain. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- But it was too late, there was no room for it, and coasting onto the floor, it disappeared in a most mysterious manner. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- He took a big swallow of it and felt it coasting over his tongue in delicate anxsthesia. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- As lazy, fair-weather sailors, careless of the coming hour, we talked gaily of our coasting voyage, of our arrival at Athens. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The Mediterranean, as we have noted (chapter xvii) is a sea for galleys and coasting. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- When such restrictions are imposed upon the inland trade, the coasting trade, we may believe, cannot be left very free. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- We coasted past the sharp bows of a navy of great steamships and stopped at last at a government building on a stone pier. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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