Coast
Meanings and phrases
coast
- the shore of a sea or ocean; seashore; seacoast; sea-coast
- a slope down which sleds may coast
- the area within view
- the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it; slide; glide
coast
- move effortlessly; by force of gravity
Adelie Coast
- a costal region of Antarctica to the south of Australia; noted for its large colonies of penguins; Adelie Land; Terre Adelie
Atlantic Coast
- a coast of the Atlantic Ocean
Barbary Coast
- a part of a city that is notorious for gambling dens and brothels and saloons and riotous night life (especially the waterfront of San Francisco after the gold rush of 1849)
- the Mediterranean coast of northern Africa that was famous for its Moorish pirates
Coast Mountains
- a string of mountain ranges along the Pacific coast of North America from southeastern Alaska to Lower California; Coast Range
Coast Range
- a string of mountain ranges along the Pacific coast of North America from southeastern Alaska to Lower California; Coast Mountains
East Coast
- the eastern seaboard of the United States (especially the strip between Boston and Washington D.C.)
Gold Coast
- a republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea; Ghana; Republic of Ghana
Gulf Coast
- a seashore of the Gulf of Mexico
Ivory Coast
- a republic in western Africa on the Gulf of Guinea; one of the most prosperous and politically stable countries in Africa; Cote d'Ivoire; Republic of Cote d'Ivoire
Pacific Coast
- a coast of the Pacific Ocean
U. S. Coast Guard
- an agency of the Department of Transportation responsible for patrolling shores and facilitating nautical commerce; United States Coast Guard; US Coast Guard
US Coast Guard
- an agency of the Department of Transportation responsible for patrolling shores and facilitating nautical commerce; United States Coast Guard; U. S. Coast Guard
United States Coast Guard
- an agency of the Department of Transportation responsible for patrolling shores and facilitating nautical commerce; U. S. Coast Guard; US Coast Guard
West Coast
- the western seaboard of the United States from Washington to southern California
n.
- shrubby tree with silky foliage and spikes of cylindrical yellow nectarous flowers; honeysuckle; Australian honeysuckle; Banksia integrifolia
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- plant with leaves mostly at the base and openly branched clusters of small white flowers; western North America; Boykinia elata; Boykinia occidentalis
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- highly variable often shrubby evergreen oak of coastal zone of western North America having small thick usually spiny-toothed dark-green leaves; California live oak; Quercus agrifolia
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- stiff leathery-leaved fern of western North America having ovate fronds parted to the midrib; leatherleaf; leathery polypody; Polypodium scouleri
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- lofty evergreen of United States coastal foothills from Oregon to Big Sur; it flourishes in wet, rainy, foggy habitats; California redwood; Sequoia sempervirens
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- medium-sized rhododendron of Pacific coast of North America having large rosy brown-spotted flowers; Rhododendron californicum
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- slow-growing medium-sized cedar of east coast of the United States; resembles American arborvitae; southern white cedar; Atlantic white cedar; white cypress; white cedar; Chamaecyparis thyoides
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- a rich neighborhood noted for expensive homes and luxurious living; usually along a coastal area
n.
- tall evergreen of western North America; commercially important timber tree; western hemlock; Pacific hemlock; Tsuga heterophylla
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- It is found on Bioko off the west coast of Africa.
- and toured the US west coast following its release.
- They anchored off the west coast of Maloe Island.
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- The island is located off the coast of Jävrebodarna.
- The island sits off the coast of Mozambique in Africa.
- It lives in shallow waters off the coast of New Guinea.
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- Gaios is situated on the east coast of the island.
- This wrecked on the east coast of Tierra del Fuego.
- It is native to the east coast states of Australia.
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- Most of the population lives along the coast.
- Many villages were built near rivers or along the coast.
- Lug can be dug all the way along the coast to Woodstown.
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- Only in the south coast is summer as long as winter.
- He was born in Portsmouth, on the south coast of England.
- The capital, Santo Domingo, is located on the south coast.
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- Its highest point is halfway along the north coast.
- The town sits on the north coast of the island Beveland.
- In 259 BC they advanced toward Thermae on the north coast.
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- Chinese cratons collided with Siberia's southern coast.
- Aladin was from Jacmel, a city on the southern coast of Haiti.
- The modern major road runs along the eastern and southern coast.
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- Baku is situated on the western coast of Caspian Sea.
- Pentos is a major trading port on a bay of the western coast.
- It is close to the western coast of the district of Knapdale.
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- It is found on the eastern coast of North America.
- Many live in Sambutsu especially, on the eastern coast.
- Belfast is situated on Northern Ireland's eastern coast at .
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- A corsair's road runs along the continent's northern coast.
- It centred on the town of Burnie on Tasmania's northern coast.
- Along with the Greeks, Thracians lived among the northern coast.
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- Salta lies near the coast of northwestern Cumbria.
- Stadium is built near the coast of Adriatic Sea.
- Ceawlin's campaigns are not given as near the coast.
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- One of the brothers lived on an island off the coast between Mahone Bay & Lunenburg.
- "Fly", then employed in resurveying the coast between Port Jackson and Hobson's Bay.
- The coast between the towns of Trouville and Honfleur, although part of the Côte Fleurie, is named Côte de Grace.
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- Gili Meno is the middle of Lombok's three northwest coast Gilis.
- "M. membranacea" has also invaded the northwest coast of the US.
- The Power House is located on the northwest coast of Alcatraz Island.
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- She was used as a coast guard ship for the duration of the conflict.
- The rank insignia of enlisted for the national guard and coast guard.
- Nonetheless, both nations maintain coast guard vessels in the Great Lakes.
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- Ashford currently lives on the Welsh coast near Aberystwyth.
- It was based at Latrobe on Tasmania's north coast near the town of Devonport.
- Dolphins are commonly encountered on the north coast near Singaraja and Lovina.
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- She maintains an active touring schedule from coast to coast.
- Tridont opened 107 dental offices under from coast to coast in Canada.
- In 1982, its ads proclaimed that it had "140 locations, coast to coast".
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- It leads from the northeast coast to Castle Road.
- Columbus also explored the northeast coast of Cuba, where he landed on 28 October.
- Polydactylous cats occur along North America's northeast coast and in Great Britain.
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- This attack took place off the southwest coast of neutral Ireland.
- This new colony was centred at Godthåb ("Good Hope") on the southwest coast.
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- She made her maiden voyage down the coast to Quincy, Massachusetts in November.
- These buses travel the tourist section of Acapulco, driving up and down the coast.
- Others may have migrated down the coast of British Columbia and then moved inland.
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- A tremendous gale hit the southeast coast of England on 5 March, damaging or even wrecking many vessels.
- By January 2005, of magma covered an area of more than and added of land to the southeast coast of Hawaii.
- The cave lies on the southeast coast of the island, and is named by the inhabitants "phokialí" (Greek for "seal's refuge").
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- Varat Taun warns Twilight of what Icarium can do, so she flees up the coast.
- Shooting began in April 1969 in the Atransa Studios at Sydney and up the coast nearby.
- She moved up the coast to San Pedro, California, to load and, on 27 July, got underway for Australia.
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- Other affected areas include the southeastern coast of China and Taiwan.
- Located on the southeastern coast of the island, the cave measures about .
- The island lies near New Orleans off the southeastern coast of Terrebonne Parish.
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- The village of Ormiscaig is located less than one mile along the coast road.
- The B5300, known locally as the "coast road" runs to the west of the village.
- The village of Mellon Charles is less than one mile west along the coast road.
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- Today, their employers can be found throughout the central coast.
- The town of Ouidah on the central coast is the spiritual center of Beninese Vodun.
- In 1996 Sunburst returned to California's central coast with the purchase of Sunburst Sanctuary.
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- Including these marginal seas the coast line of the Atlantic measures compared to for the Pacific.
- The area is hilly and has no road access; a walking or mountain biking track follows the coast line.
- The West coast line would run to Manchester, and the East coast line would run to Edinburgh and Glasgow.
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- 90% of these are concentrated in the band around the coast.
- Diving schools are just as frequent as surfing ones, all around the coast of Fuerteventura.
- Despite his reputation as a hunter, he campaigned to end the clubbing of grey seals around the coast.
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- According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Ghent has a marine west coast climate, abbreviated "Cfb" on climate maps.
- Based on the Köppen climate classification, The Spearhead is located in the marine west coast climate zone of western North America.
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- The holotype was collected on the northeastern coast of Honsyu Island, Japan.
- It is situated in Cumberland East Bay on the northeastern coast of the island.
- After repairs, "Trippe" resumed training operations off the northeastern coast.
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- According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Ghent has a marine west coast climate, abbreviated "Cfb" on climate maps.
- Based on the Köppen climate classification, The Spearhead is located in the marine west coast climate zone of western North America.
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- She sank three ships in the vicinity of East London and a fourth off the coast of southern Namibia.
- Chemainus Chemainus is a community in the Chemainus Valley on the east coast of southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
- The Canary Islands form an archipelago in the Atlantic, at closest off the coast of southern Morocco, and flight distance from Madrid.
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- She served in the English Channel, the Mediterranean, and off the African coast during the Anglo-Ashanti wars.
- The Seventh Doctor and Ace arrive at a British naval installation near Maiden's Point on the Northumberland coast during World War II.
- He served off the North American coast during the American War of Independence, having some success against privateers and enemy shipping.
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- According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Ghent has a marine west coast climate, abbreviated "Cfb" on climate maps.
- Based on the Köppen climate classification, The Spearhead is located in the marine west coast climate zone of western North America.
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- It is endemic to the southwestern coast of India in Karnataka.
- The town is situated on the southwestern coast of Denmark, and is a port on the North Sea.
- The extreme southwestern coast of the island includes a large collapsed submarine caldera.
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- It is situated on the northwestern coast of the Argolic Gulf.
- Bottlenose dolphins frequent the waters of the northwestern coast, and their group size varies largely from individuals and pairs to hundreds of dolphins.
- By the mid-17th century the French sent colonists and privateers to settle the northwestern coast of Hispaniola due to its strategic position in the region.
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- The road was actually a coastal road fronting the sea coast in the early decades of the British colonial city – hence its name.
- The ecological footprint is most notably from the increased development of settlements and the sea coast leading to habitat fragmentation.
- These trends cast doubt on whether the features truly mark a long-gone sea coast and, have been taken as an argument against the Martian shoreline (and ocean) hypothesis.
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- He then attacked another, which glided in towards the coast, trailing smoke.
- The Coastal Depression is located on the East of the Coastal Range towards the coast.
- As the valley descends towards the coast is passes through cloud forest and is more humid.
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- In 1948, the last coast defense gun was removed from Fort Hamilton.
- This allowed the weapons to be used in coast defense against moving targets.
- Essentially all of the United States' coast defense guns were scrapped by the end of 1948.
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- Based on the Köppen climate classification, The Spearhead is located in the marine west coast climate zone of western North America.
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- Broad Sound (Massachusetts) Broad Sound is a bay on the Massachusetts coast north of Boston.
- Until 1864 Sadz lived at the Black Sea coast north to Gagra until the Khosta River (Khamysh River).
- Tropical storm watches were posted for the state's Atlantic coast north of Jupiter Inlet to near Flagler Beach.