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shoreline

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++shore·line /ˈʃɔːlaɪn $ ˈʃɔːr-/ noun [countable, uncountable]  the land along the edge of a large area of water such as an ocean or lake []滨线,海[]岸线 the bay’s 13,000 km of shoreline 这个海湾 1.3 万公里的海岸线
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shorelineIt is here that the road pulls you back to the pounding sea and a shoreline littered with huge driftwood logs.Coast and shoreline classifications have usually had one of three bases, descriptive, numerical or genetic.Her home consists of two battered green fishing boats tied together a few feet off a stretch of garbage-strewn Nile shoreline.The reeds grow along a 50-mile stretch of shoreline.Most mornings she liked to head up along the shoreline or follow one of the trails out toward the fire tower.Then I must have collapsed at the shoreline.There were a few wooden beach huts down by the shoreline.The buildings started a whisker away from the shoreline.Ducks and geese are stripping the shoreline of vegetation, triggering erosion that muddies the shallow lake.
shore·line nounChineseSyllable
land the along area edge the of a large of Corpus


shoreline
shoreline /ˈʃɔːlaɪn $ ˈʃɔːr-/ noun [uncountable and countable]
the land along the edge of a large area of water such as an ocean or lake:
    the bay’s 13,000 km of shoreline


shore·lineBrE /ˈʃɔːlaɪn/ 🔊NAmE /ˈʃɔːrlaɪn/ 🔊 noun [usually singular] the edge of the sea, the ocean or a lake 海(或湖)滨线;海(或湖)岸线a rocky shoreline岩质海岸线The road follows the shoreline for a few miles. 公路沿海岸线逶迤而行几英里。🔊🔊

beach, coast, harbour, pier, sandbank, sea, shoreline, surf, tide, wave