(a.) Being near or moving towards the shore; as, inshore fisheries; inshore currents.
(adv.) Towards the shore; as, the boat was headed inshore.
Example Sentences:
(1) The main source of PCBs in the diet in Japan was inshore fishes, in contrast to fresh water fishes as in the U.S.A.
(2) The board requested that the position statement be changed, to in making decisions regarding port development, the potential impact on inshore biodiversity should be a key consideration.” Mooney has denied any conflict of interest, and said his employment in the coal industry had been declared.
(3) The result of the survey carried out is an smoker percentage of 81.15% among the fishermen of the inshore fishing fleet of Barbate.
(4) We study the introduction of tobacco habit among inshore fishermen of Barbate (Cádiz), for we consider that this is a highly receptive population to tobacco use because of hard work and its low socio-cultural level.
(5) The inshore areas of Tabarka and Bizerte are not submitted to the bacterian pollution.
(6) They defend the substitution of the smaller EU-backed inshore exercise Triton for Mare Nostrum, the Italian search-and-rescue exercise, in terms not of humanity but pragmatism.
(7) "Water quality in the region has declined markedly, especially in inshore areas adjacent to the developed coast."
(8) The authors present in this paper a study of the bacterial pollution of inshore waters of northern suburbs of Tunis, on the basis of 180 sampled collected in 15 different stations, 15 monthly (one for each station).
(9) They will be worse than useless, giving the illusion of protection where none is present.” The government said it was working to ensure management measures are put in place within two years, but Roberts said: “I am deeply skeptical of what it will achieve.” He said, for example, there are already moves to open up a “special area of conservation” in Cardigan Bay to scallop dredging : “It is one of the most destructive fishing methods in the world, turning habitats into rubble and leaving trails of dead and dying creatures in its wake.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bloody Henry starfish at the new Holderness Inshore MCZ.
(10) Sediments from four inshore industrial sites and a reference site in the Great Lakes were extracted with organic solvents to produce a crude extract, which was separated on alumina into two fractions: predominantly polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons; and predominantly nitrogen-containing polycyclic aromatic compounds.
(11) People could be illegally shooting the seals in fish-farming areas and at inshore fishing grounds.
(12) FEM medium was used to recover four marine type C isolates from inshore sediments collected along the Atlantic, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Pacific coasts of the United States.
(13) The authority will not support port activities or developments in locations that have the potential to degrade inshore biodiversity.” Then at a meeting in September 2012, the port development position statement was watered down.
(14) The occurrence of MN in flounder from inshore Virginia was higher than in flounder from inshore Gulf of Maine and Block Island Sound.
(15) The benthic Trachinus vipera occurs to a depth of 50 m and migrates inshore during the summer.
(16) As political pressure builds in Europe to stem the migrant flow, a more controversial option is now on the table, with the EU considering a plan for naval craft to go inshore, joining Libyan patrols to intercept migrants as they embark and return them to shore.
(17) Gastric evacuation of the juvenile lemon shark, Negaprion brevirostris, a tropical inshore apex predator, was studied in the laboratory under conditions of 25 degrees C and 32% salinity.
(18) Carbon monoxide poisoning is a well recognized, but uncommon hazard of sport and inshore diving, which occurs either as a result of a faulty air compressor or from air contamination by the exhaust of nearby petrol engines.
(19) Levels of all metals in these tropical terns were predicted to be lower than those of terns nesting in temperate regions, because the tropical species feed offshore of non-industrial areas where contamination should be less than for temperature-nesting species that feed in inshore estuaries near industrialized areas.
(20) The US Navy said the infrared radar footage showed an Iranian “fast inshore attack craft” launching several rockets on 26 December “in close proximity” to the Truman, the guided missile destroyer USS Bulkeley, the French naval frigate FS Provence and commercial ships in the busy waterway.
Land
Definition:
(n.) Urine. See Lant.
(n.) The solid part of the surface of the earth; -- opposed to water as constituting a part of such surface, especially to oceans and seas; as, to sight land after a long voyage.
(n.) Any portion, large or small, of the surface of the earth, considered by itself, or as belonging to an individual or a people, as a country, estate, farm, or tract.
(n.) Ground, in respect to its nature or quality; soil; as, wet land; good or bad land.
(n.) The inhabitants of a nation or people.
(n.) The mainland, in distinction from islands.
(n.) The ground or floor.
(n.) The ground left unplowed between furrows; any one of several portions into which a field is divided for convenience in plowing.
(n.) Any ground, soil, or earth whatsoever, as meadows, pastures, woods, etc., and everything annexed to it, whether by nature, as trees, water, etc., or by the hand of man, as buildings, fences, etc.; real estate.
(n.) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; -- called also landing.
(n.) In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, as the level part of a millstone between the furrows, or the surface of the bore of a rifled gun between the grooves.
(v. t.) To set or put on shore from a ship or other water craft; to disembark; to debark.
(v. t.) To catch and bring to shore; to capture; as, to land a fish.
(v. t.) To set down after conveying; to cause to fall, alight, or reach; to bring to the end of a course; as, he landed the quoit near the stake; to be thrown from a horse and landed in the mud; to land one in difficulties or mistakes.
(v. i.) To go on shore from a ship or boat; to disembark; to come to the end of a course.
Example Sentences:
(1) 2.35pm: West Ham co-owner David Sullivan has admitted that a deal to land Miroslav Klose is unlikely to go through following the striker's star performances in South Africa.
(2) Certainly, Saunders did not land a single blow that threatened to stop his opponent, although he took quite a few himself that threatened his titles in the final few rounds.
(3) Moments later, explosive charges blasted free two tungsten blocks, to shift the balance of the probe so it could fly itself to a prearranged landing spot .
(4) Roger Madelin, the chief executive of the developers Argent, which consulted the prince's aides on the £2bn plan to regenerate 27 hectares (67 acres) of disused rail land at Kings Cross in London, said the prince now has a similar stature as a consultee as statutory bodies including English Heritage, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment and professional bodies including Riba and the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.
(5) On land, the pits' stagnant pools of water become breeding grounds for dengue fever and malaria.
(6) Rule-abiding parents can get a monthly stipend, extra pension benefits when they are older, preferential hospital treatment, first choice for government jobs, extra land allowances and, in some case, free homes and a tonne of free water a month.
(7) The worldwide pattern of movement of DDT residues appears to be from the land through the atmosphere into the oceans and into the oceanic abyss.
(8) The report warned that 24m acres of unprotected forest lands across the southeastern US are at risk, largely from European biomass operations.
(9) City landed the former Barcelona chief executive, Ferran Soriano , and many thought the two former Barça men's recruitment looked a threat to the Italian, especially with Pep Guardiola on sabbatical and looming over any potential vacancies at Europe's top clubs.
(10) The court ruling is just the latest attempt to squeeze Abdi off her land.
(11) Dealers speculated that Facebook's army of bankers had stepped in to stop the shares falling below $38, a move that would have landed the social network with a public relations disaster on its first day as a public company.
(12) Before 1948, the Bedouin tribes lived and grazed their animals on much of the Negev, claiming ancestral rights to the land.
(13) Don was racing the Dodge through the Bonneville Salt Flats , where Gary Gabelich had just (on 23 October) broken the land-speed record.
(14) Crisis in Yemen – the Guardian briefing Read more “We have the permission for this plane but we have logistical problems for the landing.
(15) The power of the landed elite is often cited as a major structural flaw in Pakistani politics – an imbalance that hinders education, social equality and good governance (there is no agricultural tax in Pakistan).
(16) Even the landscape is secretive: vast tracts of crown land and hidden valleys with nothing but a dead end road and lonely farmhouse, with a tractor and trailer pulled across the farmyard for protection.
(17) About 53% of the continent’s total land mass is used for agriculture.
(18) The following year, I organised and took part in a cycle ride from John O'Groats to Land's End, covering 900 miles in nine days through this beautiful country.
(19) "The rise in those who are self-employed is good news, but the reality is that those who have turned to freelance work in order to pull themselves out of unemployment and those who have decided to work for themselves face a challenging tax maze that could land them in hot water should they get it wrong," says Chas Roy-Chowdhury, head of taxation at the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants.
(20) Rebels succeeded in hitting one of the helicopters with a Tow missile, forcing it to make an emergency landing.