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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
waterfront
noun
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▪ Adam Clark also designed the tunnel which runs under Buda hill connecting the western parts of Buda with the waterfront.
▪ Impressive churches and small greens dot the city, and there are plans to renovate many of the dilapidated waterfront buildings.
▪ Manchester helped spur a revitalization of the waterfront in the 1980s.
▪ Mark then spent a week on the waterfront carefully planing down the telegraph poles to the right shape.
▪ People and cars along the downtown waterfront look like ants.
▪ The coastal towns are expanding in their hinterlands rather than along the waterfront, and disused industrial areas are favoured for development.
▪ The lighthouse and cottages are still lived in and command extensive views of Hull waterfront and the Humber Bridge.
▪ They'd completed the tour of his spacious offices on the waterfront at Msida.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
waterfront

also water-front, 1834, American English, from water (n.1) + front (n.). To cover the waterfront "deal with thoroughly" is attested from 1913; I Cover the Waterfront was a 1932 best-seller by San Diego newspaperman Max Miller.

Wiktionary
waterfront

alt. 1 The land alongside a body of water. 2 The dockland district of a town. n. 1 The land alongside a body of water. 2 The dockland district of a town.

WordNet
waterfront

n. the area of a city (such as a harbor or dockyard) alongside a body of water

Wikipedia
Waterfront (1944 film)

Waterfront is a 1944 American film from PRC Pictures directed by Steve Sekely.

Waterfront

Waterfront may refer to:

  • waterfront (area), the dockland district of a town
Waterfront (band)

Waterfront are a 1980s Welsh pop duo, comprising Phil Cilia (full name Philip Laurence Cilia) and Chris Duffy (full name Christopher James Duffy), who emerged from the ashes of local Cardiff band The Official Secrets.

Waterfront (TV series)

Waterfront is a television series set in Providence, Rhode Island that was originally scheduled to be a midseason replacement on CBS in 2007, but was shelved by the network in 2006 before any of its five completed episodes had aired. The series was produced by Warner Bros. Television.

It starred Joe Pantoliano and William Baldwin as the Mayor of Providence and Attorney General of Rhode Island, respectively.

Waterfront (song)

"Waterfront" is a 1983 single from Simple Minds, the first release from the album Sparkle in the Rain.

Featuring a new, rockier sound, "Waterfront" scaled the charts in various countries around the world, including hitting #1 for two weeks in New Zealand. It also reached #13 on the UK Singles Charts. Today, it is a live favorite and is regarded as a Simple Minds signature song.

It features a bass line consisting of a single note (D) throughout.

The version as released on 7" vinyl single (and on the original Now That's What I Call Music compilation) differs from versions available on CD. The original single didn't feature the repetitive bass-line that leads into the main body of the song, but had a "one, two....one, two, three, four.." drumstick count-in by drummer Mel Gaynor.

It has been used for many years as the song Sheffield Wednesday football club come out to before home matches. The version originally played was a live version, however it has since been changed to the studio recording.

Waterfront (1950 film)

Waterfront is a 1950 British black and white drama film directed by Michael Anderson and starring Robert Newton, Kathleen Harrison and Avis Scott. A sailor abandons his family, in the Liverpool slums. He returns years later causing family frictions. Adapted from the 1934 novel by Liverpool-born writer John Brophy, it was released in the U.S. as Waterfront Women.

Waterfront (1928 film)

Waterfront is a 1928 silent film released with sound effects and music, produced and released by First National Pictures. The film was directed by William A. Seiter and starred Dorothy Mackaill and Jack Mulhall, then a popular duo under the First National banner.

Waterfront (1939 film)

Waterfront is a 1939 film produced and released by Warner Brothers and starring Dennis Morgan. It was directed by Terry O'Morse from a play, Blind Spot, by Kenyon Nicholson. It is preserved at the Library of Congress.

Waterfront (miniseries)

Waterfront is a 1984 Australian miniseries about industrial disputes on the Australian waterfront during the Great Depression.

Waterfront (area)

The waterfront area of a city or town is its dockland district, or the area alongside a body of water.

Usage examples of "waterfront".

On the waterfront in the town of New Arkhangelsk, on the western side of the big island that the Russians called Baranof and the natives called Sitka, two men stood looking out over the harbor.

Carpenter, with his identification plaque strapped to the palm of his open upraised hand for easy display to every laser scanner he met along the way, went from level to level, up one and down the next, following the portentous instructions of invisible metallic voices, until at last he came to the waterfront itself, ashimmer in a bright green haze of midday heat.

A chief was addressing them in fatherly tones, warning them that the district known as Klong Toey, famous as a rough waterfront strip in Bangkok, was strictly off-limits to all Navy personnel.

Junk Buoy was modeled on a thousand waterfront resort bars that Lawrence had enjoyed in his twenties, and those had all been centuries out of date long before he even reached Earth.

Yokohama than Mushy Hansen beat it down the waterfront to see if he couldst match me at some good fight club.

It began in 1977 and has been publishing the dreams of Sausahto houseboat community residents and non-residents who dream of the Sausalito waterfront.

Tour boats filled with passengers nosed their way along the waterfront, poking into the channels that ran back to the ends of the docking slips of Harbour Island and into the Duwamish Rover.

He was unaware that the car behind followed him along the waterfront and under the West Seattle Bridge, dropping back only when he pulled into his favorite parking spot along the Duwamish West Waterway off Klikitat.

In advance of the main mass of flames, an incandescent cloud of fiery particles envelops the waterfront in droplets of blazing gasoline.

Most streets near the waterfront had brick footwalks and gutters and were lit at night by whale oil lamps, except when the moon was full.

Jeronimo and van Hoek went off towards a smoky and riotous quarter near the waterfront while Jack and Moseh went to reconnoiter in a finer neighborhood up the hill.

After dinner most evenings we walked together with him back down to the waterfront, where we would stroll along the Intracoastal as the yachts from Palm Beach idled by in the glow of the sunset.

The streets of Blackbury Jambs are a series of traverses leading down to the waterfront main street that connects the two bridges.

I had looked for poignant wonder and inspiration in the teeming labyrinths of ancient streets that twist endlessly from forgotten courts and squares and waterfronts to courts and squares and waterfronts equally forgotten, and in the Cyclopean modern towers and pinnacles that rise blackly Babylonian under waning moons, I had found instead only a sense of horror and oppression which threatened to master, paralyze, and annihilate me.

CHAPTER VIII A LETTER TO THE SHADOW APARTMENT 5C at the Greendale Arms was much more comfortable than the tiny waterfront hide-out where Perique had taken Doug Lawton.