(v. t.) The exterior line, limit, or border of a country; frontier border.
(v. t.) The seashore, or land near it.
(n.) To draw or keep near; to approach.
(n.) To sail by or near the shore.
(n.) To sail from port to port in the same country.
(n.) To slide down hill; to slide on a sled, upon snow or ice.
(v. t.) To draw near to; to approach; to keep near, or by the side of.
(v. t.) To sail by or near; to follow the coast line of.
(v. t.) To conduct along a coast or river bank.
Example Sentences:
(1) One of the most recent was in June last year, when a boatload of anglers came across a dead 23ft squid off Port Salerno on the state's Atlantic coast.
(2) Six marine bacteria which synthesize macromolecular antibiotics were isolated from neritic waters on the French Mediterranean coast, and their frequency recorded over two successive years.
(3) What happened in the past was that if smugglers are sure that European boats are patrolling very close to the Libyan coast, then traffickers use this opportunity to advertise, and say to potential irregular migrants: ‘You will be sure to reach the European coast.
(4) A wide but discontinuous distribution of the snail on the north coast of Haiti is confirmed (no autochthonous infections with S. mansoni have been reported).
(5) A guide, £44pp, is compulsory ( rscn.org.jo ) 2 Discover the Nuweiba coast: Red Sea, Egypt Beach, Nuweiba, Sinai, Egypt.
(6) Taxpayers will pick up an immediate £40m bill for compensating the four shortlisted companies that bid for the west coast franchise.
(7) Overhead wire problems were causing delays on the east coast mainline into London King's Cross.
(8) It will be protected from rising sea levels by a giant flood wall that environmental experts say could damage the communities further down the coast – and social justice campaigners have called the project a form of “climate apartheid” .
(9) In the present study, serum samples were obtained from 4248 individuals from six West African countries, including Senegal, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Mauritania, Burkina Faso, and Ivory Coast.
(10) The Virgin train service from London Euston to Glasgow Central derailed on the west coast mainline near Grayrigg on 23 February 2007, with 109 people on board.
(11) But you go to the east coast of the US, and it's still a highly coal-dependent infrastructure.
(12) For all its posing and grooming, there are no nightclubs - the only flashing lights along this coast are the glowworms strobing across the grass at dusk.
(13) Samples of flies were taken from four sites spread over 1200 miles along the Australian eastern coast.
(14) With all attempts at mediation failing - Gbagbo has repeatedly rejected offers of a "safe and dignified" exit - the African Union reaffirmed its recognition of Ouattara as the rightful leader of Ivory Coast in March.
(15) Since coast-to-coast travel is common today, many patients may become exposed to Coccidioides immitis while traveling in endemic areas.
(16) "And let's be frank, we're not actually helping anyone by leaving the economic coast clear for others to provide the inward investment that often comes in from elsewhere and may represent tied aid or investment that won't help lift the poorest into employment," she said.
(17) Three hundred and forty-eight cranial remains from Bronze and Iron Age British, Romano-British, Anglo-Saxon, Eastern Coast Australian aborigines, Medieval Christian Norse, Medieval Scarborough, 17--20th century British and German cultures, were examined for the presence of osteoarthritis in the temporomandibular joints.
(18) Further along the south coast, in Folkestone and Hythe, Ukip has again moved from fourth to second, according to the poll, but the Conservatives look set to hold the seat as a challenge from the Lib Dems evaporates.
(19) "We should be looking instead at decentralising the system, and looking closer to home for our energy supplies, such as solar panels on homes or harnessing wind energy on the coasts, or inland," he said.
(20) The long, curving, sandy Plage des Chevrets is one of the prettiest on Brittany's Emerald Coast.
Littoral
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a shore, as of the sea.
(a.) Inhabiting the seashore, esp. the zone between high-water and low-water mark.
Example Sentences:
(1) The samples were obtained in four places which were different by geographical situation and climate: Abidjan (urban site), Bonoua (littoral site), Bin-Houye (forest site), Odienne (predesert site).
(2) The spleen revealed the following: both parasitized and non-parasitized erythrocytes are phagocytosed in large numbers by macrophages, littoral and reticular cells.
(3) The littoral cells of the sinuses in the popliteal lymph nodes have been studied in Wistar rats under physiological conditions of hemodynamics and 1 h after ligation of the caudal vena cava.
(4) By mixed cultivation, 85.7% of Shigella sonnei resistant strains isolated on the Central Plateau and 100% of the strains from the caspian littoral transferred at least a part of their resistance pattern to sensitive E. coli K12 F- (gamma).
(5) A detailed analysis is presented, which includes techniques of in vivo labeling of DNA with tritiated thymidine and high-resolution radioautography, of the temporal and spatial patterns of DNA synthesis and cell division in the parenchymal cells, littoral cells, bile duct epithelium, and other cellular components in the liver during the first 64 hr of regeneration after partial hepatectomy.
(6) PCB and sigma DDT concentrations were greater in the predatory bottom animals than in the herbivores or detritus feeders, and the amounts of chlorinated hydrocarbons were greater in profundal animals than in littoral animals.
(7) A selection of forty eight samples were taken from moderately polluted river water, highly polluted river water, polluted sea water (littoral) and treatment & distribution water and monitored using these media.
(8) The ultrastructural changes in the littoral cells of the liver were swollen mitochondria, with dilatation of the endoplasmic reticulum, loss of ribosomes from the rough endoplasmic reticulum and an increase in the number of vesicles in the cytoplasm.
(9) The conclusion is drawn that extracts of a hepatoma contain one or more growth-inhibitory factors significantly active on regenerating liver cells, and less significantly on littoral cells.
(10) This is a tectonic geopolitical shift in eastern Europe .” As a Black Sea littoral country invaded and partitioned by Russia in 2008, Georgia is closely following events in Crimea, Ukraine’s Russian-majority region and base for the Kremlin’s Mediterranean fleet.
(11) Azathioprine increased the hepatocytes' and littoral cells' streaming velocities.
(12) The south coast of England is to London what Long Island is to New York – a fine littoral in easy access – but the capital does not have a Hamptons.
(13) The present study provides evidence that littoral cells participate in the same cell stream and that the liver actually streams en masse.
(14) The number of Colcemid-arrested mitoses in the hepatocytes and in the littoral cells, respectively, were counted in 140 microscopic fields.
(15) It is postulated that if surfers who have developed exostoses of the external auditory canal from the cold water continue to enjoy such littoral activities, ossification of the auricle may also occur.
(16) Absorbance was expressed in relationship to the mean absorbance of diploid periportal littoral cells.
(17) In this respect, it is interesting to note that epidemiological studies conducted by the agency (Day 1) indicate that tea, which contains gallotannins, is consumed more frequently but in a more diluted brew in the area of high oesophageal cancer incidence of the Caspian littoral than in the low incidence area.
(18) Intercellular clefts (1-4 mcm wide) are demonstrated to exist between the littoral cells of the internal wall of the marginal sinus.
(19) Habitat characteristics were examined in two marshes and the littoral zones of two lakes in central Florida to determine their effect on the density and distribution of Coquillettidia perturbans.
(20) Forty-six samples of fish caught in the Central Adriatic's littoral, 11 of which in a control, non-industrialized area, and 35 in an urbanized area strongly affected by industry, were collected.