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- Dictionaryshore/ʃɔː/
noun
- 1. the land along the edge of a sea, lake, or other large body of water: "I took the tiller and made for the shore"
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21 hours ago · The zone where land meets sea is known as the coast and the part between the lowest spring tides and the upper limit reached by splashing waves is the shore. A beach is the accumulation of sand or shingle on the shore. [72] A headland is a point of land jutting out into the sea and a larger promontory is known as a cape.
21 hours ago · A term used broadly to refer to land or the shore, and not necessarily literally to a beach. For example, a ship which turns toward the shore can be said to have turned toward the beach , and a person or object on land can be said to be on the beach .
1 day ago · The broadest classifications are based on substrates — rocky shore or soft bottom. Intertidal organisms experience a highly variable and often hostile environment, and have adapted to cope with and even exploit these conditions.
19 hours ago · The Atlantic is, generally speaking, S-shaped and narrow in relation to its length. The area of the Atlantic without its dependent seas is approximately 31,568,000 square miles (81,760,000 square km), and with them its area is about 32,870,000 square miles (85,133,000 square km).
1 day ago · Discovery focused geochemical and geophysical program aims to define drill targets along 23 kms of prospective structural corridors that have not been systematically explored. Vancouver, British ...
1 day ago · Island, any area of land smaller than a continent and entirely surrounded by water. Islands may occur in oceans, seas, lakes, or rivers. A group of islands is called an archipelago. Islands may be classified as either continental or oceanic. Learn more about islands in this article.
4 days ago · The preferred oceanographic term for the Caribbean is the Antillean-Caribbean Sea, which, together with the Gulf of Mexico, forms the Central American Sea. The Caribbean’s greatest known depth is Cayman Trench (Bartlett Deep) between Cuba and Jamaica, approximately 25,216 feet (7,686 metres) below sea level.
