Another word for shore
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A means or device that keeps something erect, stable, or secure
- An orthopedic appliance used to support, align, or hold a bodily part in the correct position.
- A device attached to the teeth in order to move them gradually into better occlusion
- A device, as a beam, used as a support, to resist strain or pressure, etc.; prop
- Anything like a buttress; support or prop
- A projecting structure, generally of brick or stone, built against a wall to support or reinforce it
- Anything that serves to support something; a prop.
- Anything one leans or relies on for support, help, etc.; prop
- A support used by an injured or disabled person, often in pairs, as an aid to walking, having a vertical shaft that is sometimes forked, a horizontal grip for the hand, and a crosspiece that is positioned under the armpit or a cuff that wraps around the forearm.
- (Naut.) A forked support for a spar when the sail is furled
- Someone or something displayed to impress others or provide a false impression.
- A person or thing that gives support or aid to a person, institution, etc.
- An object placed beneath or against a structure to keep it from falling or shaking; a support.
- (Informal) Ability to continue or endure
- Anything used as a support, or prop
- A support or brace.
- The state of being supported:
- The provision of money or the necessities of life:
- The act of supporting:
- Material or masonry used to support a structure, such as a wall.
- Anything that serves as a support or basis
- A support or foundation:
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Another word for shore
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- The zone above the water line at a shore of a body of water, marked by an accumulation of sand, stone, or gravel that has been deposited by the tide or waves.
- A nearly level stretch of pebbles and sand beside a sea, lake, etc., often washed by high water; sandy shore; strand
- The sand or pebbles on a shore.
- Any of the parts that are bound together to form a whole
- A street in Westminster running from Trafalgar Square to Fleet Street
- Land at the edge of a body of water; shore, esp. ocean shore
- (Law) The land along the sea lying between the usual high-water and low-water marks
- A tract or area of sand; beach, etc.
- Loose, gritty particles of eroded or weathered rock, varying in size from about116 mm to 2 mm in diameter, usually deposited along the shores of bodies of water, in riverbeds, or in deserts
- A tract of land covered with sand, as a beach or desert.
- (Obsolete) The frontier or border of a country.
- (Obs.) Frontier; borderland
- The water near this land:
- The topmost edge of a cup, glass, bowl, etc.
- A projecting rim or edge, especially around the bottom of a hat.
- The uppermost edge of a hollow container or natural basin.
- The margin of land bordering a body of water.
- The upper edge of a steep or vertical slope:
- The bank, esp. when steep, of a river or other body of water
- The slope of land adjoining a body of water, especially adjoining a river, lake, or channel.
- A supply or stock for future or emergency use:
- A piled-up mass, as of snow or clouds; a heap:
- An ornamental strip of flowers or shrubs along the edge of a garden, walk, etc.
- An edge or a part near an edge; margin; side
- The line or frontier area separating political divisions or geographic regions; a boundary.
- An edge and the area immediately adjacent to it; a border.
- (Botany) The border of a leaf.
- A border, edge, or brink
- (Archaic) A margin, or edge
- The lateral edge of a river.
- The bank of a river
- The area of a shore that lies between the average high tide mark and the average low tide mark.
- The part of a shore between the water and occupied or cultivated land.
Synonym Study
- Bank applies to rising or steep land at the edge of a stream or river
- Strand is a poetic word for shore or beach
- Beach applies to a level stretch of sandy or pebbly seashore or lake shore, usually one that is washed by high water
- Coast applies only to land along the sea
- Shore is the general word applied to an edge of land directly bordering on the sea, a lake, a river, etc.
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