(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.
Sled
Definition:
(n.) A vehicle on runners, used for conveying loads over the snow or ice; -- in England called sledge.
(n.) A small, light vehicle with runners, used, mostly by young persons, for sliding on snow or ice.
(v. t.) To convey or transport on a sled; as, to sled wood or timber.
Example Sentences:
(1) The two completely different total knee-endoprostheses (hinge type and sled or runner type) have been compared concerning construction and ability for take up or transmission of forces and moments.
(2) In order to assess the effect of extravestibular gravity receptors on perception and control of body position against that of the otoliths, the subject (S) is exposed to gravitoinertial forces along the spinal (Z) axis on a tiltable board and on a sled centrifuge.
(3) Eighteen young male subjects with NAMRL sled test experience to 15 G in --Gx acceleration were measured for physical characteristics of the head and neck and general body anthropometry.
(4) A Teflon sled, Proplast malar implant and ptosis correction acheived the desired results.
(5) No difference in risk of injury was found regarding the type of sled used, the number of children, or their position on the sled or for those children with a history of prior sledding experience.
(6) A state law enforcement agency, SLED, has taken over the investigation into the shooting along with the Justice Department and FBI.
(7) Each year, the winning team takes a special trip with him: this year’s winners will go dog-sledding on a glacier in Iceland; when Reilly and the DeAngeluses won in 2012, their team spent a weekend in a Scottish castle.
(8) These burs were tested utilizing custom-built equipment consisting of a frictionless air sled to which the Macor substrate was attached.
(9) In February he will leave northern Canada to trek more than 1,000km to the North Pole; what's different this time is that he is travelling with two fellow polar explorers, his friends Ann Daniels and Martin Hartley, and they will be dragging with them not just food and repair kits but 100kg sleds each, laden with equipment to take up to 12m readings of the depth and density of snow and ice beneath their feet.
(10) Gross examination revealed that the sleds were secured in position until well encapsulated.
(11) Over 150 Navy enlisted men have been subjected to impact acceleration on a sled propelled by a nitrogen-powered horizontal accelerator.
(12) By a systematic analysis of the so called sled-prostheses is to be shown to differantiate between real sled-prostheses with rotation and sliding mobility and pseudo-sled-prostheses (better rotation-segment-prostheses).
(13) When the MAbs produced against CDV were tested, 37 of 39 antibodies reacted with a virus isolated from a sled dog diseased in an outbreak of distemper in Greenland prior to the epizootic among seals in the North Sea.
(14) Some were mounted in a rearward firing sled; others were placed in standard cars during collisions.
(15) David Cameron was a master stunt-artist: the husky-sledding in the Arctic circle, the bicycle-riding to Westminster.
(16) They had provisions for several more weeks on the ice, the first leg of a year-long expedition (named "180 Degrees") from geomagnetic north pole to geomagnetic south pole by dog sledding, sailing and cycling.
(17) So, even after a massive snow fall, we don’t get much time to enjoy its pleasures – digging out igloos once the storm has passed, pretending we’re Laura Ingalls Wilder and trying to make maple candy in the snow , sledding down that one big hill.
(18) Coming from the position of being a high Tory with great personal wealth and aristocratic family ties, Cameron needed to ride a husky sled across a glacier and go on about global warming to persuade people he was half-way normal.
(19) Posterior fixation of the sled may be difficult, as the sled tends to migrate anteriorly.
(20) A canine distemper outbreak in a highly susceptible sled dog population of Northern Greenland was recognized in the beginning of January 1988.