| 单词 | longshore drift |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslongshore drift longshore drift n. the movement of material along a coast by waves which approach at an angle to the shore but recede directly away from it. ΚΠ 1893 Profess. Papers Corps Royal Engineers 19 162 External to this canal cutting, for the two-fold purpose of protecting it from longshore drift of silt and for anchorage of a few vessels..the two breakwater arms in the project will doubtless answer well. 1952 G. H. Dury Map Interpr. viii. 73 Spits appear to have grown most vigorously from the central headland, which is now winged, both to east and west—a fact which should prevent any facile generalization on the dominant direction of longshore drift. 2013 Sidmouth Herald (Nexis) 22 Feb. The breakwaters have stopped all longshore drift of shingle from the west, thus denuding the base of the cliffs. < as lemmas |
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