(a.) Belonging to the seashore or a seaport; along and on the shore.
Example Sentences:
(1) This study evaluates the capabilities of preemployment roentgenographs for predicting acute back injury claims within the longshoring industry and for predicting back problems that lead to back disability of more than six months.
(2) Their longshoring experience was computed in terms of work-years according to categories of high, medium and low caloric output.
Seacoast
Definition:
(n.) The shore or border of the land adjacent to the sea or ocean. Also used adjectively.
Example Sentences:
(1) The source of infection and the relationship to the recent dolphin beachings along the eastern seacoast of North America are unknown.
(2) Ornithodoros (Alectorobius) capensis Neumann, an ectoparasite of seabirds found circumglobally in the tropics and subtropics, has become established along the southeastern seacoast of the United States.
(3) Occasionally he makes geography itself impossible – the Bohemian seacoast in A Winter's Tale , or the lion that saunters through Arden in As You Like It – but even these, it might be argued, are testament to the boundlessness of his imagination.
(4) Within the dehestan (smallest administrative unit) of Amlash, a region near the Caspian seacoast, 2-stage probability sampling procedures were used: villages were divided into 4 population strata, then 1 village selected randomly from each 1.
(5) There were 110 women (25 from a mountain village, 25 from a plains village, 25 from a seacoast village, and 35 urban dwellers) who responded to 9 health education pictures.
(6) Populations of the teleost fish Fundulus heteroclitus are subjected to the clinical variation in environmental temperatures that occurs along the eastern seacoast of North America.
(7) The physiological properties and temperature responses of the first strain of Leucothrix mucor ever to be isolated from a warm, tropical seacoast area are described.
(8) The North Charleston campus of Seacoast Church said it would hold a vigil the following night.