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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
coastline
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.
▪ The Istrian Peninsula has a rugged coastline of pine-clad headlands between innumerable bays and inlets.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a rocky coastline
▪ Environmentalists are concerned about possible damage to some of the most beautiful stretches of Welsh coastline.
▪ Far below us, we could just see the coastline of Argentina dimly outlined.
▪ The road follows the rugged coastline of northern France for nearly 100 miles.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Almirante Boulevard is a main artery out of Waldron, hugging the coastline all the way.
▪ Except where subduction zones lie adjacent to mountain belts on continental margins, plate boundaries do not coincide with continental coastlines.
▪ See them nose the long coastline in a glide of perfected instinct.
▪ The great Pangaean landmass was now riddled with miles and miles of coastline, and the world was slowly transformed.
▪ The vessel approached the coastline at dawn, somewhere to the north of Mount Carmel.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
coastline

1860, from coast (n.) + line (n.).

Wiktionary
coastline

n. The shape, outline, or boundary of a coast.

WordNet
coastline

n. the outline of a coast

Wikipedia
Coastline (magazine)

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. Unlike many academic disciplines, liberal studies (also known as interdisciplinary studies) does not focus on one area, but rather uses a wide-field view to incorporate philosophy, history, literature, science, art, economics, and other disciplines to examine our physical and metaphysical world from several vantage points.

Coastline (sculpture)

Coastline is an outdoor sculpture by American artist Jim Sanborn installed at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration complex in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Coastline attempts to recreate the effect of waves crashing on the Atlantic coast (represented by rough-cut granite). This is achieved with artificial waves generated by a turbine and pneumatic blower underneath the sculpture. The wave frequency is controlled by a remote tide gauge in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, that sends actual wave heights to the sculpture's control mechanism in real time. Sanborn built a quarter-size scale model of the sculpture and consulted with a wave engineer while doing research for the project.

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.