Crossword clues for onshore
onshore
- Like some breezes
- Having missed the boat?
- Not at sea
- Back from boating
- Kind of wind or current
- Kind of breeze
- Domestic
- Sooner at sea, hard to be kept - away from it?
- Run in running pump? Not in the main
- Acceptable footwear sailor finally carried towards land
- Terrestrial radiophones not paid off
- Like some winds
- Off the boat
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
onshore \onshore\ adj. coming from the sea toward the land; -- of winds and weather; as, an onshore gale. Opposed to offshore.
Syn: inshore, seaward.
2. On the edge of the land; near the shoreline; as, an onshore lighthouse.
Wiktionary
1 moving from the sea towards the land 2 positioned on or near the shore adv. from the sea towards the land alt. 1 moving from the sea towards the land 2 positioned on or near the shore v
(context management English) To relocate production, services or jobs to lower-cost locations in the same country.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Onshore can mean:
- The process of moving a business operation from overseas to the local country; the opposite of offshoring
- Onshore wind
- Onshore (hydrocarbons) land-based fossil fuels
Onshore, when used relative to hydrocarbons, refers to an oil, natural gas or condensate field that is under dry land or to activities or operations carried out in relation to such a field.
Usage examples of "onshore".
Bodies had already begun washing up onshore, and Olivia felt her knees go weak again as she read it.
Already onshore were orderly piles of angle iron, corrugated tin, lumber, and plywood.
Redbrick high-rises rose in the distance behind an onshore archaeological site, whose Roman remains dated from the first centuries of the Christian era.
Maggi stopped to watch too whenever she was onboard the Goum Kiskar, but most of the time she was onshore, dickering with merchants, especially those who had fully tanned fur pelts trapped during the winterdeep on the high peaks.
The vessels were under oars, their sails and mainmasts landed onshore to lighten them for action before they set out.
The vessels were under oars, their sails and mainmasts landed onshore to lighten them for action before they set put.
Double-moon tide and an onshore breeze: if we come in too fast, the masts'll come down on your precious popgun when she grounds her belly.
As he drew closer to the cove he saw the rubber dinghy pulled partway up onshore and caught a flicker of movement and what appeared to be a silhouetted figure in a thicket just in from the beach.
For seven months he had eaten shoulder to shoulder with his white crew mates, but onshore it would have been unthinkable for him to dine with his betters.