| 单词 | foreland |
| 释义 | foreland (once / 14701 pages) n WORD FAMILY foreland: forelands+/land: foreland, landed, lander, landing, landless, lands, midland, overland/lander: landers/landing: landings/midland: midlands/overland: overlander USAGE EXAMPLESPolice say no one was evacuated or hurt in the fire at the Foreland Refinery in Woods Cross on Tuesday afternoon. Washington Times(Apr 26, 2016) North Foreland, sleepily familiar from the Shipping Forecast, made real. The Guardian(Jul 29, 2015) The 0.8 mile section will complete a five-mile stretch of coastline owned by the trust, between Dover port and South Foreland lighthouse. BBC(Nov 07, 2012) 1n a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea) Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper head, headland, promontory Cape Horn a rocky headland belonging to Chile at the southernmost tip of South America (south of Tierra del Fuego) Rock of Gibraltarlocation of a colony of the United Kingdom on a limestone promontory at the southern tip of Spain; strategically important because it can control the entrance of ships into the Mediterranean; one of the Pillars of Hercules Cape Hatterasa promontory on Hatteras Island off the Atlantic coast of North Carolina Cape Canaverala sandy promontory (formerly Cape Kennedy) extending into the Atlantic Ocean from a barrier island off the eastern coast of Florida; the site of a NASA center for spaceflight Cape Sablea promontory on the far southern part of Nova Scotia Jebel Musaa promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar; one of the Pillars of Hercules mull a term used in Scottish names of promontories pointa promontory extending out into a large body of water elevation, natural elevation a raised or elevated geological formation 2n land forming the forward margin of something Hyper dry land, earth, ground, land, solid ground, terra firma the solid part of the earth's surface |
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