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coastline

/kohst-lahyn/US // ˈkoʊstˌlaɪn //UK // (ˈkəʊstˌlaɪn) //

岸线,海岸线,岸边,沿海地区

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the outline or contour of a coast; shoreline.
    • : the land and water lying adjacent to a shoreline.

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Examples

  • Next, head to the beaches of Assateague Island National Seashore, a 40-mile stretch of coastline across Maryland and Virginia.

  • In addition, the sandbags have blocked public shorelines, created eyesores along picturesque coastlines and littered beaches with heavy fabric and rope that gets torn and whipped around by waves.

  • Adaptation are things we do to prepare and prevent the damage already done by climate change, like building a sea wall to prevent higher ocean waves from slamming into a coastline.

  • Young noted that much of the coastline was already armored, and he urged the board to allow Hanzawa to seek permission from the county to keep the seawalls.

  • On top of that is a layer of much younger sandstone, a porous sedimentary rock and remnant of an ancient coastline.

  • It also theoretically moves the ancient coastline more than two miles from where historians originally placed it.

  • Although it took 21 years after Peter ran away at the battle of Narva, Russia finally got a Baltic coastline.

  • A drive to the Snæfellsnes peninsula—seriously, these names—is a veritable coastline journey to the center of the Earth.

  • And an unnamed vessel that hit the brutal coastline in 1860 has a particularly dark story.

  • Its beautiful landscape and coastline are matched only by its fascinating history.

  • The War Office forget every now and then other things about the coastline above the Narrows.

  • To the east there was a precipitous coastline of dark rock which for a while we thought of visiting.

  • The irregularities in the coastline account for this; the wind tending to flow down to sea-level by the nearest route.

  • July and August are cold and foggy along the coastline, with strong west winds almost every day.

  • Our object was to map in the coastline as far east as possible, and the problem, now, was whether to go north or south.