(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.
Toboggan
Definition:
(n.) A kind of sledge made of pliable board, turned up at one or both ends, used for coasting down hills or prepared inclined planes; also, a sleigh or sledge, to be drawn by dogs, or by hand, over soft and deep snow.
(v. i.) To slide down hill over the snow or ice on a toboggan.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tobogganers at Gallagher Park What’s the best place for a conversation?
(2) It functions as a pair of easy-to-use skis for walking uphill, then when it’s time to head down, it quickly transforms into a toboggan for riding safely and enjoyably back to the resort, perhaps even with a few powder turns along the way.
(3) Winning tip: Tobogganing in Zurich The best way to see Zurich is from the top of its own mini mountain, Uetliberg, from where you get a view of the whole city, the lake and the countryside with mountains in the distance.
(4) A series of 271 children, injured in tobogganing and sledging accidents was studied.
(5) Most accidents occurred on a slope especially designated for tobogganing and sledging.
(6) I was tobogganing with friends in the village, and we saw something astonishing in the sky: great columns of white light shifting and shimmering, breaking and floating away, rising from behind the hills.
(7) Another pupil, with whom he was racing on improvised toboggans, was killed when he hit a tree.
(8) By means of this score it can be shown that the most severe injuries occur during horse riding, skating, tobogganing and bicycle riding.
(9) In the Antarctic they lived in tents and spent 15 days travelling by motor toboggan.
(10) Tobogganing accidents caused injuries to the kidneys as well as to bladder and urethra.
(11) It’s particularly magical in winter when everything is dusted with snow and the toboggan run is open – two miles of downhill fun from Uetliberg to Triemli!
(12) Eighty-eight patients suffered skiing injuries, 20 tobogganing injuries, and one injury each was caused by ski jumping and bobsleighing accidents, two traumas resulted from a fall from a chair lift.
(13) Twenty-four cases of vertebral column injuries associated with tobogganing accidents are presented.
(14) Beyond the festival, Geilo has plenty of other exciting winter activities, including snowshoeing, dog-sledding, tobogganing and fat biking.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The toboggan ride back from Monte.
(16) 51% of the accidents were caused by the typical winter sports: skiing, tobogganing, ice-skating and ski-jumping with skiing accounting for 75% of the accidents.
(17) The authors review the exceptional causes that may not be considered: drug anaphylaxis, to foods, hymenoptera, effort anaphylaxis, to hydatic antigens, to toboggans, to progesterone.
(18) In contrast to traumas caused by skiing, tobogganing injuries were mostly multiple.
(19) There's an outlandish car chase that, with Kara's cello case doubling as a toboggan, morphs into a yet more outlandish ski chase.
(20) We urge safer and better organization of tobogganing facilities.