Word Finder - coast

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The edge of the land where it meets an ocean, sea, gulf, bay, or large lake.

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The rocky coast of Maine has few beaches.

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The side or edge of something.

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A region of land; a district or country.

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A region of the air or heavens.

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To glide along without adding energy; to allow a vehicle to continue moving forward after disengaging the engine or ceasing to apply motive power.

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When I ran out of gas, fortunately I managed to coast into a nearby gas station.

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To sail along a coast.

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To make a minimal effort; to continue to do something in a routine way, without initiative or effort.

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To draw near to; to approach; to keep near, or by the side of.

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To sail by or near; to follow the coastline of.

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To conduct along a coast or river bank.

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To slide downhill; to slide on a sled upon snow or ice.

I'm headed to the coast this weekend.

Our motel was at least five or six miles up the coast highway through town.

It says it's an island off the coast of Ireland.

There's nothing like it in old paintings, nothing like it in foreign lands--unless when we were off the coast of Spain.

He drove them up the coast, past the exit to his condo and onward to the hills of Los Angeles.

I take it we've not heard from the central or west coast sites this week?

It had been afternoon when she left the West Coast, and it was clearly in the middle of the night here.

He apparently owned several buildings he was leasing out on the coast - warehouses, maybe?

We must maintain East Coast operations from here.

By his time the kingdom must have reached the west coast, as he is said to have conquered the islands of Anglesea and Man.

Just that someone in his family had a place near the beach, up the coast, and no one used it.

Every morning, before lesson-time, we all go out to the steep hill on the northern shore of the lake near the house, and coast for an hour or so.

Each trip up the side of the mountain grew harder as chaos erupted along the East Coast and drove refugees through Brady's area of operation.

The entire East Coast had to be purged and redeveloped.

The attacks on the coast occurred simultaneously with nukes that would've been impossible to hide, let alone smuggle into the country.

The coast, in fact, rises in some places rather abruptly from the sea.

I planned on going to Seychelles to escape the east coast cold, but Gio said being invited here was an honor.

Quite a few, and they're pulling in everyone from the east coast to Miami and Orlando.

The glove compartment contained a registration in the name of World Wide Insurance Company and maps of the east coast states.

The work of blockade, and of harassing the Confederates on the coast and the rivers of the Atlantic seaboard, called for much service in boats, and entailed a great deal of exposure.

Latin legend represented her as landing on the coast of Latium and marrying Pilumnus or Picumnus, from whom Turnus, king of the Rutulians, was descended.

In the island of Juist, off the Friesland coast, from three weeks' observations they obtained only 5.2 as the mean.

The coast is chiefly occupied by Arab tribes who were virtually independent, paying merely a nominal tribute to the shah's government until 1898.

The great auk, once common on the British coasts, those of Denmark, the east coast of North America, then restricted to those of Newfoundland, Greenland and Iceland, has been killed by man, and the same fate has overtaken the Labrador duck, the Phillip Island parrot, Nestor productus, and the large cormorant of FIG.

Greene was in contact with different people in the West Coast Center.

The coast of Sardinia contains few seaports, but a good proportion of these are excellent natural harbours.

To the south of Terranova there is no harbour of any importance on the east coast (the Gulf of Orosei being exposed to the E., and shut in by a precipitous coast) until Tortoli is reached, and beyond that to the Capo Carbonara at the south-east extremity, and again along the south coast, there is no harbour before Cagliari, the most important on the island.

They occur also on the extreme north-western coast, in the Nurra.

Snow hardly ever falls near the coast, but is abundant in the higher parts of the island, though none remains throughout the summer.

There is daily steam communication (often interrupted in bad weather) with Civitavecchia from Golfo degli Aranci (the mail route), and weekly steamers run from Cagliari to Naples, Genoa (via the east coast of the island), Palermo and Tunis, and from Porto Torres to Genoa (calling at Bastia in Corsica and Leghorn) and Leghorn direct.

A fortnightly line also runs along the west coast of the island from Cagliari to Porto Torres.

The cities which they founded - Cornus, Tharros, Sulci, Nora, Caralesare all on the coast of the island, and it is doubtful to what extent they penetrated into the interior.

Turris Libisonis was also connected with Othoca by a road along the west coast, passing through Tharros, Cornus and Bosa; this road went on to Tibula 2 (Capo della Testa) at the north extremity of the island and so by the coast to Olbia.

It consists of, first, a strip of mainland along the Bay of Bengal, extending from the An pass, across the main range, to the Ma-i River, and, secondly, the large islands of Ramree and Cheduba, with many others to the south, lying off the coast of Sandoway.

Zimbabwe was probably the distributing centre for the gold traffic carried on in the middle ages between subjects of the Monomotapa and the Mahommedans of the coast.

She had already determined to create him a noble, and begun to look out an estate in the lately annexed possessions of Sweden on the Pomeranian coast.

Until Trajan formed the port of Centumcellae (Civitavecchia) Ostia was the best harbour along the low sandy coast of central Italy between Monte Argentario and Monte Circeo.

Considerable remains of ancient villas still exist along the low sandy coast, one of which, about 1 m.

So complete is the watershed that no streams pass through these ranges, and there is hardly any communication in this direction between the interior of Asia Minor and the coast.

The vilayet, of which Trebizond is the chief town, consists of a long irregular strip of coast country, the eastern half of which is deeply indented and mountainous.

Though only twenty-two years of age, Alexius was a man of ability and resolute will, and he succeeded without difficulty in making himself master of the greater part of the southern coast of the Black Sea.

He would seem to have kept down to the coast until the headland of Ras Malan was reached, scattering before him the bands of Arabitae and Oritae who were the inhabitants of this well-provisioned tract.

They reside in small towns and mud forts scattered along the coast.

There are salines at Avlona and other places on the coast.

Other small harbours on the lower Patagonian coast are not prominent, owing to lack of population.

The climate on the coast is hot, humid and unhealthy.

In 1508 Alonso de Ojeda obtained the government of the coast of South America from Cabo de la Vela to the Gulf of Darien; Ojeda landed at Cartagena in 1510, and sustained a defeat from the natives, in which his lieutenant, Juan de la Cosa, was killed.

Reaching the Pacific through the Strait of Magellan, Drake proceeded northward along the west coast of America, resolved to attempt the discovery of a northern passage from the Pacific to the Atlantic. The coast from the southern extremity of the Californian peninsula to Cape Mendocino had been discovered by Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo and Francisco de Ulloa in 1539.

The voyage of Lord Anson to the Pacific in 1740-1744 was of a predatory character, and he lost more than half his men from scurvy; while it is not pleasant to reflect that at the very time when the French and Spaniards were measuring an arc of the meridian at Quito, the British under Anson were pillaging along the coast of the Pacific and burning the town of Payta.

Lofty lines of fold mountains form the " backbones " of North America in the Rocky of Mountains and the west coast systems, of South America in the Cordillera of the Andes, of Europe in the Pyrenees, Alps, Carpathians and Caucasus, and of Asia in the mountains of Asia Minor, converging on the Pamirs and diverging thence in the Himalaya and the vast mountain systems of central and eastern Asia.