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coastline
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE rugged ▪ Then we moved to a bungalow, marginally out of sight of the rugged coastline . ▪ The path leads to Boscastle with its natural harbour - the only secure one on the rugged coastline between Padstow and Bude. ...
Wiktionary
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n. The shape, outline, or boundary of a coast.
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Coastline is an online-only magazine edited by Michael J.S. Cox. Its purpose is to publish essays that reflect the wide range of interests, reading, and writing from current students and alumni of graduate liberal studies programs across North America . ...
WordNet
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n. the outline of a coast
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1860, from coast (n.) + line (n.).
Usage examples of coastline.
There was a deck of cumulus far below but through big breaks, the pilots could see the deeply indented coastline of the Takao area and the big concrete airdrome of Einansho.
Paragraph two: Allentown to transit north to Barents Sea off Russian northern coastline.
With the Russian subs on the coastline, only Devilfish and Allentown were this far north, everyone else was tied down with the Russian attack boats.
Kate gazed down the coastline, seeing the waves break on the sandbar, her Chincoteague storm sense kicking in.
He had retaken the nearly deserted Pireth Tulme in short order, and had avoided all the traps they had set about the coastline below St.
The castle towns along the coastline of Kyushu in western Japan were ruled by lords like Otomo, Omura, Arima, and Ito.
Two waves of Migs, fourteen per wave, were just leaving the coastline of Russia.
The coastline ran generally northeastward, and for much of its distance, offshore islands and bars formed a naturally protected waterway, as if God had meant to make his exploration safe from the whims of the unruly sea.
We lost some species, mostly from overfishing and from the dumping of pollutants and washed-off topsoil in the shallow waters around the coastlines.
As I had been told about the City of Mexico, Puebla was also high above the coastline, in a broad plain shouldered by distant mountains.
They hugged the coastline around Cape Henlopen and into the Atlantic, then cruised south along Rehoboth Beach.
The rest of the coastline was rockbound, unprotected from the fury of the sea.
Niall could make out a rocky coastline, with undulating cliffs, needles and pinnacles of seaworn granite and green fields sloping to the sea.
Cymrian era, an enormous sluiceway had been constructed, a floodgate of a sort being formed from the natural curve of the coastline, to keep the tides from damaging the ships in port.
And now there stood one of the tackiest buildings in the world on one of the most beautiful spots on the coastline.