What's the difference between ashore and castaway?
Ashore
Definition:
(adv.) On shore or on land; on the land adjacent to water; to the shore; to the land; aground (when applied to a ship); -- sometimes opposed to aboard or afloat.
Example Sentences:
(1) With the advances in the conservative management of surgical emergencies over the last 20 years medical hazards at sea are relatively few and do not differ significantly from those experienced ashore.
(2) Most British shipping companies maintain comprehensive medical services both ashore and afloat which are concerned with not only treatment but also preventive medicine.
(3) As his plane landed, more than 160 Eritreans were coming ashore in the port, the latest of almost 8,000 arrivals on Italy's southern coasts so far this year, according to UN figures.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A view of the museum from the air The name Arken means The Arc, as the building was originally meant to be built on the beach resembling a large ship washed ashore.
(5) This path was built to link the tiny fishing settlements along the edge of the loch and allow the precious cargo of "silver darlings" to be carried ashore.
(6) A piece of debris recently found on an Indian Ocean island where a wing fragment from Malaysia Airlines flight 370 had previously washed ashore is unlikely to be from the missing plane, Australian officials have said.
(7) This year the MCS is already receiving reports of tens of thousands of toothbrushes being washed ashore from Southampton to Scotland.
(8) Filled with wood nymphs, spirits, goblins and sprites, long before Christian missionaries waded ashore, our forests reigned supreme.
(9) In the novel, the count comes ashore when a Russian schooner, the Demeter, runs aground, all hands lost.
(10) Some 25,000 residents – 10% of his constituents – have been displaced, and nearly 2,000 killed, with gruesome reminders of the tragedy becoming ever more apparent every day: this week a second mass burial site was dug to accommodate the growing number of corpses found washed ashore or from the mounds of debris that line the city's streets and canals.
(11) "It would seem that the French were successful in preventing the bulk of this very large oil mass from coming ashore," the MBA researchers concluded.
(12) They were carried or staggered ashore, some paralysed by malnutrition, others little more than walking skeletons, burnt and dazed from weeks at sea on boats the UN has called “floating coffins”.
(13) About 95% will probably never come ashore and is destined for that massive swirl of floating plastic known as the north Pacific garbage patch.
(14) We are taken ashore and forced to run the gauntlet of rows of soldiers while military TV films us.
(15) "For every pirate that goes to legal finish there are three or four that end up being put back ashore.
(16) The introduction of strict weight control guidelines in the American Navy has drawn attention to a theory that obese sailors lose weight more readily at sea than ashore.
(17) In the gloom of Aitches ale house, a favourite watering hole for oilmen coming ashore after working on the North Sea rigs, the barman spoke for well-paid customers who want things to stay the way they are: " It's all no in here, mate.
(18) We can imagine swarms of terrorists charging ashore off the Dover ferry, but it would make more sense putting Dad’s Army back in uniform and issuing teachers with machine guns.
(19) But Savitz says that most of the birds and fish die from the spill out to sea and will not wash ashore, never to be seen, let alone counted.
(20) Duplication of the monitors has been provided in the “Salvage Room” ashore, where all the other engineers and technicians will follow the operation and be able to provide assistance if and when the need arises.
Castaway
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, is cast away or shipwrecked.
(n.) One who is ruined; one who has made moral shipwreck; a reprobate.
(a.) Of no value; rejected; useless.
Example Sentences:
(1) He is a survivor, it's true – but to turn to Cheney for advice about longevity is like interviewing the lone recovered castaway for tips on sea travel: you can ask him for his recipes but don't look too closely at the bones on the bottom of the boat.
(2) He plays Ben Gunn, the castaway who comes to figure in the second half of the two-part drama, which was filmed in Puerto Rico.
(3) The two most popular non-classical records chosen by castaways are the rather self-justificatory "Non, je ne regrette rien" and "My Way".
(4) He was one of my favourite castaways,” Young told the Radio Festival in Salford on Tuesday.
(5) These features are described and then compared with the similar experience of being a castaway after shipwreck.
(6) Jamil said more castaways were expected to emerge from the island.
(7) Unlike when David Cameron was a castaway, there were no indie hits or student favourites from the likes of Radiohead, The Smiths and REM.
(8) Release date tbc The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came To Eden Facebook Twitter Pinterest In a tale that's a bit like the BBC's Castaway, albeit more tropical, The Galapagos Affair tells the true story of a small group of Europeans who settled on one of the tiny Pacific islands in the 1930s.
(9) So, home secretary, did you agree to appear as a castaway to show a warmer, personal side?” asks the presenter, Kirsty Young, before many discs have been spun.
(10) And, like many political castaways, Clegg had something in the mix to show a different side to his character.
(11) He said that although reality TV programmes such as Castaway and I'm A Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here!
(12) Desert Island Discs presenter Kirsty Young has revealed she would take a Tom Jones song with her to a desert island because he “pulsated sexuality” and was one of her favourite castaways.
(13) Inspired by Jules Verne, this four-hour epic, which translates as The Castaways of the Fol Espoir (Sunrises), follows a group of people in 1914, escaping war in Europe on a boat.
(14) He picked This Charming Man – a track composed by Marr with the group's lead singer, Morrissey – when he was a castaway on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs four years ago.
(15) We're currently perched at Castaways Bar and Grill .
(16) It’s a short boat ride to Poliegos, a castaway island with magnificent beaches and a population of wild goats and rare birds.” She suggests staying at Milaki , a hotel in the port of Psathi (doubles from €70 B&B).
(17) Theresa May brought to you in conjunction with Toilet Duck.” Another Radio 4 stalwart, Desert Island Discs , had to be re-edited last year after the castaway Michael Bublé picked a Rolex watch as his luxury item without disclosing he was a brand ambassador for the company.
(18) If you love them you have to listen to them very, very carefully,” he said in reference to the passionately held but opposing views among believers during his appearance as guest castaway on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs .
(19) Interviewed on BBC's Radio 4 today by Kirsty Young, after choosing his preferred castaway music, Clegg revealed he "did enjoy the occasional cigarette", although he insisted he never lit up in public and that his children were entirely ignorant of the fact.