What's the difference between headland and shore?

Headland


Definition:

  • (n.) A cape; a promontory; a point of land projecting into the sea or other expanse of water.
  • (n.) A ridge or strip of unplowed at the ends of furrows, or near a fence.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) So it is only a fool, like me, who would walk nonchalantly around the headland during a high wind.
  • (2) North of the main jetty and beach, the coast curves out towards a rocky headland, and the further you go, the more likely you are to have it to yourself.
  • (3) Paddle on the Riviera Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy A half-hour walk from the tiny railway station at Cap d’Ail in the Alpes-Maritimes, a coastal footpath runs underneath a line of art nouveau and art deco villas and round a headland before Mala Plage comes into view.
  • (4) Paddling along the densely wooded coastline, the view ahead was suddenly broken by asymmetrical shapes rising up from a grassy headland.
  • (5) Off the windswept headland where the Red Sea’s Gulf of Aqaba meets the Gulf of Suez, a dozen divers trail bubbles during their descent towards the famous Shark Reef, one of the world’s most popular diving sites.
  • (6) We don’t really have a mandate for the conservation of non-native species.” In his blog, Harper argued that managed shoots could “provide beneficial habitat management for wildlife”, including woodland sky-lighting, planting cover crops and creating conservation headlands.
  • (7) The row of trees and bushes sticking out of the shallow water continued more or less unbroken until it ended at a pointed headland 100m farther down.
  • (8) The nearby headland is spectacular, and there's lots to enjoy in this stretch of the Pembrokeshire Coast national park.
  • (9) First, helpful founder Tor McIntosh suggested Exmoor’s National Trust-owned Foreland Bothy , half a mile from Foreland point, a rocky headland a few miles from Lynmouth.
  • (10) Minute by minute, you can see rock being carved by the elements, out on that headland that divides the town in two.
  • (11) The gently undulating headlands are covered in a blanket of long grass, making picnicking and sunbathing agreeable throughout the day.
  • (12) It stretches from the headland called Pointe du Meinga, to the Ile Besnard in the west.
  • (13) With what little strength I had left, I took two unsteady steps up on to the headland.
  • (14) Backed by low headlands and no less than three waterfalls, it is easy to linger at Porthsychan for as long as the sun allows.
  • (15) Only palm trees stand between the hotel and the beach, with a headland right beside it and blazing sunsets across the bay.
  • (16) And there are the new agri-environment schemes that encourage landowners to put in new hedges and to leave unploughed "headlands" around the arable fields.
  • (17) The long sweep of beach ends at a headland where beautiful reef pools are exposed by the receding tide, revealing a huge naturally sheltered pool, offering wonderful snorkelling and tropical fish.
  • (18) His political candidates – such as Wang – can be his employees, and Wang will now employ on his senatorial staff the two people who ran with him on the WA Senate ticket: Chamonix Terblanche and Des Headland.
  • (19) Credit: Jonas Dahlberg Studio The headland of the Sørbråten memorial will be engraved with names of all the victims; visitors will be able to read them but not reach to touch them.
  • (20) These 12 rustic yet thoughtfully designed adobe cabanas are on a palmy beach cradled by rocky headlands two miles east of Puerto Angel and about 50 miles from Puerto Escondido.

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.