What's the difference between breakwater and shore?

Breakwater


Definition:

  • (n.) Any structure or contrivance, as a mole, or a wall at the mouth of a harbor, to break the force of waves, and afford protection from their violence.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The breakwater was ultimately completed after much delay and extra expense.
  • (2) The beaches are sandy and pleasant for sitting on at low tide, with breakwaters every 100 metres or so that also act as windbreaks.
  • (3) A meeting meant to reassure Cornish householders over plans for his private company, Shire Oak, to reopen a quarry near the Lizard peninsula to provide rock for the Swansea Bay breakwater, only seemed to reinforce opposition.
  • (4) Last year alone, the island, not much bigger than a breakwater in the Oslo fjord, played host to visitors from 25 international media organisations, all keen to find out the secret of Nilsen's success.
  • (5) Reefs also play a crucial role as natural breakwaters, protecting coastlines from storms.
  • (6) "The collapsed wall has been shored up with material salvaged from the damaged section, a temporary breakwater made of shipping containers filled with waste has been erected off the coast, removal of the damaged platform continues, and work is estimated to be completed by 18 March," he said.
  • (7) Until the late 1980s, nestled behind the Yan Ma Tei breakwater in Hong Kong's Causeway Bay, you could find tens of thousands of boat-dwellers who formed a bustling, floating district.
  • (8) Public broadcaster NHK showed images of a large ship ramming into a breakwater in Kennuma city, Miyagi prefecture.
  • (9) To protect the site, 15 steel containers – weighing around 70 tonnes each – have been installed as temporary breakwater, and a scaffold bridge has been built to reconnect services and signalling equipment.
  • (10) Global warming, overfishing and human intervention – especially breakwaters that protect sandy beaches but provide a home for larvae – are all blamed.
  • (11) Chelsea’s Guus Hiddink envious of squad options available to PSG Read more Still, though, at times it was hard to avoid the impression as PSG’s attacks crashed against the Chelsea breakwaters that Ibrahimovic’s best qualities – virtuoso touches, the irresistible imperative that the team play through him – are less likely to unsettle the stronger teams in Europe than they are the routinely terrorised defences of Ligue 1.
  • (12) Breakwaters that made up the typhoon shelter also limited water circulation, leaving pollution to accumulate in the harbour .
  • (13) The project, which envisages an area of 11.5 sq km cordoned off by a breakwater, would have an installed capacity of 320MW with an annual output of 420GWh and a design life of 120 years.
  • (14) A public authority building a breakwater and other harbour facilities at a small seaport (population 3000) had short-term requirements for 261,000 tonnes of rock and ultimately for 1,000,000 tonnes.
  • (15) The Cornish stone would be used to build a six-mile long breakwater in Swansea amid hopes of generating significant shipping volumes in a newly-created marine conservation zone.
  • (16) When working to build big cement breakwaters, he slept on top of a container just off the coastal highway.
  • (17) In 2003 Eitan became logistics manager for a project to extend Ashdod's port breakwater, which is where he drowned.

Shore


Definition:

  • () of Shear
  • () imp. of Shear.
  • (n.) A sewer.
  • (n.) A prop, as a timber, placed as a brace or support against the side of a building or other structure; a prop placed beneath anything, as a beam, to prevent it from sinking or sagging.
  • (v. t.) To support by a shore or shores; to prop; -- usually with up; as, to shore up a building.
  • (v. t.) The coast or land adjacent to a large body of water, as an ocean, lake, or large river.
  • (v. t.) To set on shore.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Gallic wine sales in the UK have been tumbling for the past 20 years, but the news that France, once the largest exporter to these shores, has slipped behind Australia, the United States, Italy and now South Africa will have producers gnawing their knuckles in frustration.
  • (2) This isn’t a devolved matter, this is about when they come to our shores here, UK taxpayers and their ability to use UK services,” Creasy said.
  • (3) They had watched him celebrate mass with three million pilgrims on the packed-out shores of Copacabana beach .
  • (4) He told MPs that any steps taken to shore up the markets as a result of the referendum would be disclosed afterwards.
  • (5) A light rain pattered the rooftops of Los Mochis in Friday’s pre-dawn darkness, the town silent and still as the Sea of Cortez lapped its shore.
  • (6) They moved to shore up May’s position after a weekend of damaging leaks and briefings from inside the cabinet, believed to be fuelled by some of those jostling to succeed the prime minister after her disastrous election result.
  • (7) New orders and new export growth also slowed and the number of people employed across the manufacturing sector fell, adding to pressure on policymakers at the European Central Bank (ECB) to take more action to shore up growthin the region.
  • (8) The small prawns found on the shore during the winter exhibited a much altered behaviour.
  • (9) Total concentrations can range from a few parts per million in non-polluted intertidal and oceanic areas to parts per thousand in heavily contaminated estuarine, lake and near-shore environments.
  • (10) In the second affair, a month before polling day, Australian authorities intercepted a boatload of distressed people bound for the northern shores.
  • (11) The ghosts of Barbara Castle and Peter Shore , never mind Hugh Gaitskell (and, for much of his life, Harold Wilson), were never quite exorcised by the New Labour Europhiles.
  • (12) This condition is a genodermatosis, seen chiefly around the shores of the Mediterranean, characterised by early pigment disturbances which progress virtually inexorably towards a diffuse epitheliomatosis which usually results in death before the age of 20 years.
  • (13) Brown restored a degree of his authority yesterday when no other cabinet ­minister echoed James Purnell's call for him to quit, and two critical cabinet figures – David Miliband and John Hutton – decided to shore up Brown's position rather than join a potential rebellion.
  • (14) Hollande’s dinner and overnight stay at Chequers was also due to cover a strategy for Syria in light of growing signs that the president, Bashar al-Assad, is being shored up by additional military help from Russia and Iran.
  • (15) The Campbell family has been breeding ponies in Glenshiel for more than 100 years and now runs a small pony trekking centre offering one-hour treks along the pebbly shores of Loch Duich and through the Ratagan forest as well as all-day trail rides up into the hills for the more adventurous.
  • (16) But that was the fate of Peter Shore, who has died aged 77.
  • (17) They harvest shellfish standing in the water or meandering through mangrove forests on the shore.
  • (18) The time to hand over the reins came and went, Keating challenged and lost, before heading to the backbench to lick his wounds and shore up the factional numbers needed for a successful spill.
  • (19) As candidates and supporters packed out cafes and community centres, desperate to shore up to support on caucus eve, life continued as normal for most Iowans on Monday – with many critical of how hopefuls for the Republican presidential nomination have conducted their campaigns.
  • (20) ", also suggests the country is, at heart, tolerant of those who come to its shores.