shore has definitions from the fields of geography,nautical
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[ noun ] (geography) the land along the edge of a body of water (a lake or ocean or river)

Used in print

(Nathan Rapport, ""I've Been Here before!"...)

One week before the convention , Depew was seated on the porch of a country home on the Hudson , gazing at the opposite shore .

(LeRoy Fothergill, "Biological Warfare", in Peter...)

In the first trial an inert substance was disseminated from a boat travelling some ten miles off shore under appropriately selected meteorological_conditions .

A network of sampling_stations had been set_up on shore .

(Chester G. Starr, The Origins of Greek Civili...)

The focus of novelty in this world now lay_in the south-eastern districts of the Greek mainland , and by 800 virtually the entire Aegean , always excepting its northern shores , had accepted the Geometric style of pottery .

(Francis Pollini, Night....)

Just let me go_home to Jersey , back to the shore , oh , Jesus , the shore .

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[ verb ] serve as a shore to

Examples

"The river was shored by trees"

Related terms

bound

3
[ verb ] (nautical) arrive on shore

Synonyms

set_ashore land

Examples

"The ship landed in Pearl Harbor"

Related terms

arrive

4
[ adjective ] of or on or relating to the seashore

Synonyms

seashore

Examples

"seashore resorts" "a shore dinner" "a marine on shore duty"

Related terms

coastal

5
[ verb ] support by placing against something solid or rigid

Synonyms

prop_up shore_up prop

Examples

"shore and buttress an old building"

Related terms

hold bolster prop

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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 4190
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[ noun ] a beam or timber that is propped against a structure to provide support

Synonyms

shoring

Related terms

beam prop_up

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