英语词汇“shoreline”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

The shoreline is the place where a large body of water, like an ocean, lake, or river, meets the land. There are a lot of fun beaches along the Atlantic shoreline.

You can use the noun shoreline to talk about the strip that marks the boundary between land and water, whether it's at the edge of an ocean, sea, lake, or river. While the word "coast" refers specifically to the ocean, shoreline or shore can be used for any body of water. The word was first coined in the mid-1800's by geographers, and its root is the Germanic schor, "shore, coast, or headland."

WORD FAMILY

shoreline: shorelines

USAGE EXAMPLES

The intact forested shoreline without bulkhead or break to the beach and near shore is a critical resting and feeding opportunity for juvenile salmon.

Seattle Times(Dec 30, 2016)

Trout are fair on the Louisiana shoreline on slow-sinking plugs.

Washington Times(Dec 28, 2016)

For years, the dams starved the area of sediment, so homeowners armored the shoreline with concrete, riprap, and rows of boulders to prevent erosion.

The New Yorker(Dec 26, 2016)

n a boundary line between land and water

Hyper

bound, boundary, bounds

the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something

单词	shoreline
释义	shoreline (once / 7965 pages) n The shoreline is the place where a large body of water, like an ocean, lake, or river, meets the land. There are a lot of fun beaches along the Atlantic shoreline. You can use the noun shoreline to talk about the strip that marks the boundary between land and water, whether it's at the edge of an ocean, sea, lake, or river. While the word "coast" refers specifically to the ocean, shoreline or shore can be used for any body of water. The word was first coined in the mid-1800's by geographers, and its root is the Germanic schor, "shore, coast, or headland." WORD FAMILY shoreline: shorelines USAGE EXAMPLES The intact forested shoreline without bulkhead or break to the beach and near shore is a critical resting and feeding opportunity for juvenile salmon. Seattle Times(Dec 30, 2016) Trout are fair on the Louisiana shoreline on slow-sinking plugs. Washington Times(Dec 28, 2016) For years, the dams starved the area of sediment, so homeowners armored the shoreline with concrete, riprap, and rows of boulders to prevent erosion. The New Yorker(Dec 26, 2016) n a boundary line between land and water Hyper bound, boundary, bounds the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something
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