coast
Webster Dictionary
to sail by or near; to follow the coast line of
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goodwin sands
(ˈgʊd wɪn)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a line of shoals at the N entrance to the Strait of Dover, off the SE coast of England. 10 mi. (16 km) long.
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promontory
(ˈprɒm ənˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a high point of land or rock projecting into water beyond the line of coast; headland.
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promontory
Webster Dictionary
a high point of land or rock projecting into the sea beyond the line of coast; a headland; a high cape
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range
Webster Dictionary
to have a certain direction; to correspond in direction; to be or keep in a corresponding line; to trend or run; -- often followed by with; as, the front of a house ranges with the street; to range along the coast
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alignment
Webster Dictionary
the act of adjusting to a line; arrangement in a line or lines; the state of being so adjusted; a formation in a straight line; also, the line of adjustment; esp., an imaginary line to regulate the formation of troops or of a squadron
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line
Webster Dictionary
a series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; as, the ascending or descending line; the line of descent; the male line; a line of kings
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level
Webster Dictionary
an approximately horizontal line or surface at a certain degree of altitude, or distance from the center of the earth; as, to climb from the level of the coast to the level of the plateau and then descend to the level of the valley or of the sea
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el nino
(El Nino)
Princeton's WordNet
(oceanography) a warm ocean current that flows along the equator from the date line and south off the coast of Ecuador at Christmas time
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butterfish
Webster Dictionary
a name given to several different fishes, in allusion to their slippery coating of mucus, as the Stromateus triacanthus of the Atlantic coast, the Epinephelus punctatus of the southern coast, the rock eel, and the kelpfish of New Zealand
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coasting
Webster Dictionary
sailing along or near a coast, or running between ports along a coast
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cabotage
Webster Dictionary
navigation along the coast; the details of coast pilotage
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elbow
Webster Dictionary
any turn or bend like that of the elbow, in a wall, building, and the like; a sudden turn in a line of coast or course of a river; also, an angular or jointed part of any structure, as the raised arm of a chair or sofa, or a short pipe fitting, turning at an angle or bent
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charybdis
Webster Dictionary
a dangerous whirlpool on the coast of Sicily opposite Scylla on the Italian coast. It is personified as a female monster. See Scylla
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offset
(ˈɔfˈskrin, ˈɒf-)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
Also called offset line. a line a short distance from and parallel to a main survey line.
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survey
Webster Dictionary
to determine the form, extent, position, etc., of, as a tract of land, a coast, harbor, or the like, by means of linear and angular measurments, and the application of the principles of geometry and trigonometry; as, to survey land or a coast
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lineage
Webster Dictionary
descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; race; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage
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feeder
Webster Dictionary
a branch railroad, stage line, or the like; a side line which increases the business of the main line
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lineal
Webster Dictionary
in the direction of a line; of or pertaining to a line; measured on, or ascertained by, a line; linear; as, lineal magnitude
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direction
Webster Dictionary
the line or course upon which anything is moving or aimed to move, or in which anything is lying or pointing; aim; line or point of tendency; direct line or course; as, the ship sailed in a southeasterly direction
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friesic
Webster Dictionary
the language of the Frisians, a Teutonic people formerly occupying a large part of the coast of Holland and Northwestern Germany. The modern dialects of Friesic are spoken chiefly in the province of Friesland, and on some of the islands near the coast of Germany and Denmark
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guinea
(ˈgɪn i)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
Gulf of, a part of the Atlantic Ocean that projects into the W coast of Africa and extends from Ivory Coast to Gabon.
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scylla
Webster Dictionary
a dangerous rock on the Italian coast opposite the whirpool Charybdis on the coast of Sicily, -- both personified in classical literature as ravenous monsters. The passage between them was formerly considered perilous; hence, the saying "Between Scylla and Charybdis," signifying a great peril on either hand
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three-mile limit
(ˈθriˌfoʊld)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
the outer limit of a three-mile belt of waters adjacent to a coast, regarded as under the jurisdiction of the state possessing the coast.
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ionian islands
(ɪˈoʊ ni ən)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a group of Greek islands including Corfu, Levkas, Ithaca, Cephalonia, and Zante off the W coast of Greece, and Cerigo off the S coast.
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tangent
Webster Dictionary
a tangent line curve, or surface; specifically, that portion of the straight line tangent to a curve that is between the point of tangency and a given line, the given line being, for example, the axis of abscissas, or a radius of a circle produced. See Trigonometrical function, under Function
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bluefish
Webster Dictionary
a large voracious fish (Pomatomus saitatrix), of the family Carangidae, valued as a food fish, and widely distributed on the American coast. On the New Jersey and Rhode Island coast it is called the horse mackerel, in Virginia saltwater tailor, or skipjack
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line
Webster Dictionary
the equator; -- usually called the line, or equinoctial line; as, to cross the line
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tractrix
Webster Dictionary
a curve such that the part of the tangent between the point of tangency and a given straight line is constant; -- so called because it was conceived as described by the motion of one end of a tangent line as the other end was drawn along the given line
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gunter's line
Webster Dictionary
a logarithmic line on Gunter's scale, used for performing the multiplication and division of numbers mechanically by the dividers; -- called also line of lines, and line of numbers
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