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Coasting

Coasting \Coast"ing\, a. Sailing along or near a coast, or running between ports along a coast.

Coasting trade, trade carried on by water between neighboring ports of the same country, as distinguished from foreign trade or trade involving long voyages.

Coasting vessel, a vessel employed in coasting; a coaster.

Coasting

Coasting \Coast"ing\, n.

  1. A sailing along a coast, or from port to port; a carrying on a coasting trade.

  2. Sliding down hill; sliding on a sled upon snow or ice.

Coasting

Coast \Coast\ (k[=o]st), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Coasted; p. pr. & vb. n. Coasting.] [OE. costien, costeien, costen, OF. costier, costoier, F. c[^o]toyer, fr. Of. coste coast, F. c[^o]te. See Coast, n.]

  1. To draw or keep near; to approach. [Obs.]

    Anon she hears them chant it lustily, And all in haste she coasteth to the cry.
    --Shak.

  2. To sail by or near the shore.

    The ancients coasted only in their navigation.
    --Arbuthnot.

  3. To sail from port to port in the same country.

  4. [Cf. OF. coste, F. c[^o]te, hill, hillside.] To slide down hill; to slide on a sled, upon snow or ice. [Local, U. S.]

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coasting

n. The act of sailing along a coast, or from port to port. vb. (present participle of coast English)

Wikipedia
Coasting (book)

Coasting is a travel book by Jonathan Raban. It has received a positive review by Beryl Bainbridge.

Coasting

Coasting may refer to:

  • Performing a natural deceleration of a motor when the power is removed; a type of fuel economy-maximizing behavior
  • Carrying out a part of a spaceflight without orbital maneuver
  • Sledding
  • Performing ovarian hyperstimulation without inducing ovulation with human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG)
  • Coasting (memoir), a memoir by the Brazilian writer Jorge Amado
  • Coasting (book), a travel book by Jonathan Raban
  • Coasting (TV series), a 1990 ITV television series set in Blackpool, North West England
Coasting (memoir)

Coasting, subtitled Notes for a Memoir that I will never write, (Portuguese: Navegação de cabotagem: Apontamentos para um livro de memórias que jamais escreverei) is a memoir by the Brazilian writer Jorge Amado.

Coasting is not an autobiography, more of a series of recollections, which do not appear in any chronological order. The book was published to mark Amado’s 80th birthday in 1992. It covers his entire life, with the exception of his childhood, which he had earlier recorded in The Grapiuna Boy. Coasting contains memories from the mid-1920s onwards, including observations on his own works and on the television and film adaptations of these, with memories of his family and friends, as well as other writers and artists he had contact with. It describes experiences such binge drinking with the Chilean writer Pablo Neruda, and visits to a brothel or candomblé yard with the artist Carybé or the musician and painter Dorival Caymmi. Other recollections include meetings with Pablo Picasso, Mario Vargas Llosa, Gabriel García-Márquez, and Jean-Paul Sartre. He examines his political views, including his disenchantment with communism as it turned to totalitarianism. His political activism, periods of exile and his work took him around the world many times and places he visited are also recalled, as well as the cities of Brazil.

The Portuguese title, Navegação de cabotagem, is a Brazilian expression referring to navigation between coastal and river ports in Brazil. It is often used to refer to smuggling and other illegal trade. The subtitle for the book, Notes for a memoir that I will never write refers to an agreement Amado had with Pablo Neruda and the Russian writer Ilya Ehrenburg to never write a memoir, which all three failed to honour although in the case of Neruda and Ehrenburg theirs were published posthumously.

Usage examples of "coasting".

The MACQUARIE only does a coasting trade between Eden and Auckland, and Halley is so at home in these waters that he takes no observations.

He said nothing to Sarah until they were coasting over the Biloxi Bay bridge and reentering the town of Biloxi.

The staple industry is boatbuilding, and there is an active coasting trade in fish, wine, wood and coal.

Mama was making a grab for the edge of the dining room table coasting toward her, but he could see behind her, see the huge breakfront Daddy had bought her for an anniversary gift slowly toppling away from the wall.

After that we will be coasting back in toward Flyspeck, and considering our other options for getting this nasty situation handled.

He knew why she had died with such a smile, coasting high above the universe with galaxies jewels at her feet, transported in an ecstasy greater than any he had ever known from the juices of her body.

CHAPTER XXVI HELP FOR HALL THE OLD TIDAL harbour of Sturton, used only by the smallest coasting craft and longshore fishing boats nowadays, had ramps of rock on either side the mouth.

This came to such a pass that a ship returning from this city to that of Macan, whence it had come with merchandise, with some Portuguese aboard it, while coasting along the Ilocan shore some two years ago, sighted two ships of the Sangleys, which were coming from China laden with merchandise to this city.

River Taiping, coasting along the edge of the high land on the left bank of the river.

The first tanks of his own platoon passed the ledge, rose as though coasting over the swell of a wave, then tilted downward.

Hair coasting over the juncture of jawbone and ear, slightly upcurled, the palest of browns.

And Saxon, glimpsing him sidewise, as he watched the horses and their way on the Sunday morning streets, checking them back suddenly and swerving to avoid two boys coasting across street on a toy wagon, saw in him deeps and intensities, all the magic connotations of temperament, the glimmer and hint of rages profound, bleaknesses as cold and far as the stars, savagery as keen as a wolf's and clean as a stallion's, wrath as implacable as a destroying angel's, and youth that was fire and life beyond time and place.

On screen, with magnification, you could just see them, two sparks coasting inward in RV Trianguli's hot blue light.

The heavy cruisers Star Ranger and Blackstone were reduced to crippled hulks, coasting onward ballistically without power or drives.

Soon, however, a man in a canoe, who had been coasting, unseen, along the indentures of the shore, and whom Claud instantly recognized as Phillips, the hunter already named, shot round a neighboring point, and, in a few minutes more, was at his side.