the land next to the sea; seashore: the rocky coast of Maine.
the region adjoining it: They live on the coast, a few miles from the sea.
a hill or slope down which one may slide on a sled.
a slide or ride down a hill or slope, as on a sled.
Obsolete. the boundary or border of a country.
the Coast,Informal. (in the U.S. and Canada) the region bordering on the Pacific Ocean; the West Coast: I'm flying out to the Coast next week.
verb (used without object)
to slide on a sled down a snowy or icy hillside or incline.
to descend a hill or the like, as on a bicycle, without using pedals.
to continue to move or advance after effort has ceased; keep going on acquired momentum: We cut off the car engine and coasted for a while.
to advance or proceed with little or no effort, especially owing to one's actual or former assets, as wealth, position, or name, or those of another: The actor coasted to stardom on his father's name.
to sail along, or call at the various ports of, a coast.
Obsolete. to proceed in a roundabout way.
verb (used with object)
to cause to move along under acquired momentum: to coast a rocket around the sun.
to proceed along or near the coast of.
Obsolete. to keep alongside of (a person moving).
Obsolete. to go by the side or border of.
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Idioms for coast
the coast is clear, no danger or impediment exists; no persons are in the path or vicinity: The boys waited until the coast was clear before climbing over the wall.
Origin of coast
First recorded in 1325–75; (noun) Middle English cost(e),<Anglo-French, Middle French, from Latin costa “rib, side, wall”; (verb) Middle English cost(e)yen, costen, from Anglo-French costeier,Old French costoier, derivative of the noun
Endangered humpback dolphins have been spotted in Abu Dhabi and other varieties off the coast of Lagos.
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Michael had sold the place and moved to the coast a few years earlier.
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Ice near the heart of the continent today creeps coastward at less than 10 meters per year, while ice close to the coast picks up the pace, traveling up to a few kilometers per year.
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Most of the funding goes to the coasts, as opposed to the center of the country.
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Back east, where he grew up, the highways weren't this bad, but that's what you pay to live on the best coast, as his grom friends always say.
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Orion will orbit Earth twice before splashing down off the California coast.
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You use fuel to give you the proper velocity and direction, and then you turn off your fuel tanks and coast there.
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In addition to Cornyn and Abbott, George P. Bush will likely coast to victory.
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By 2008, his planes were shuttling staff and surgical equipment from coast to coast.
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He set off from the coast of Senegal in a 24ft homemade rowboat.
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The King subsequently sailed on his intended visit to the sister island, and arrived off the coast in due course.
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Along the coast of Algeria the heat is tempered by the sea breeze.
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It then forms the divide between the Cauca and Atrato valleys, and terminates near the Caribbean coast.
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