Seashore vs. Shore
Seashore vs. Shore
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Seashore
Term AThe coastal land bordering a sea or an ocean.
The foreshore, the strip of land between low water and high water.
The coast of the sea; the land that lies adjacent to the sea or ocean.
All the ground between the ordinary high-water and low-water marks.
the shore of a sea or ocean
Shore
Term BLand adjoining a non-flowing body of water, such as an ocean, lake or pond.
(from the perspective of one on a body of water) Land, usually near a port.
Example: ‘The seamen were serving on shore instead of in ships.’; ‘The passengers signed up for shore tours.’;
A prop or strut supporting the weight or flooring above it.
Example: ‘The shores stayed upright during the earthquake.’;
(obsolete) To set on shore.
To provide with support.
To reinforce (something at risk of failure).
Example: ‘My family shored me up after I failed the GED.’; ‘The workers were shoring up the dock after part of it fell into the water.’;
To warn or threaten.
To offer.
imp. of Shear.
A sewer.
A prop, as a timber, placed as a brace or support against the side of a building or other structure; a prop placed beneath anything, as a beam, to prevent it from sinking or sagging.
The coast or land adjacent to a large body of water, as an ocean, lake, or large river.
Example: ‘Michael Cassio,Lieutenant to the warlike Moor Othello,Is come shore.’; ‘The fruitful shore of muddy Nile.’;
To support by a shore or shores; to prop; - usually with up; as, to shore up a building.
To set on shore.
the land along the edge of a body of water
a beam or timber that is propped against a structure to provide support
serve as a shore to;
Example: ‘The river was shored by trees’;
arrive on shore;
Example: ‘The ship landed in Pearl Harbor’;
support by placing against something solid or rigid;
Example: ‘shore and buttress an old building’;
A shore or a shoreline is the fringe of land at the edge of a large body of water, such as an ocean, sea, or lake. In physical oceanography, a shore is the wider fringe that is geologically modified by the action of the body of water past and present, while the beach is at the edge of the shore, representing the intertidal zone where there is one.
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