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Meaning shore meaning

What does shore mean?
Definitions in simple English

shore Noun

— The shore is the land found close to the waters' edge. — The shore is another word for land. The sailors decided to eat on the shore. — A shore is a kind of support that helps to hold the weight of the floor above it.

shore Verb

— If you shore someone or something, that means that you give support to them. The workers were shoring up the dock after it almost fell into the water.

shore

— noun the land along the edge of a body of water — noun a beam or timber that is propped against a structure to provide support — verb serve as a shore to The river was shored by trees — verb (= land) arrive on shore The ship landed in Pearl Harbor — verb support by placing against something solid or rigid shore and buttress an old building

Synonyms shore synonyms

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shore English » English

bank coast beach seaside edge seashore strand land riverbank water’s edge support side riverside littoral dry land waterside rim prop corner border waterfront prop up limit bank of river strut shore up seacoast seaboard margin inside corner ground coastline angle uphold underpin stand stanchion shoring set ashore sea coast sea board sands sandbar embankment chock buttress brim brace wharf water-front

Topics shore topics

What do people use shore to talk about?
Universe, creation Water Bodies of water

Island, shore
Universe, creation Water Movement of water

Wave

Conjugation shore conjugation

How do you conjugate shore?

shore · verb

Examples shore examples

How do I use shore in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I saw a fishing boat about a mile off the shore.
The boat was tied to the shore by a cable.
The boat hugged the shore.
The boats are beached on shore.
The ship made for the shore.
The ship stopped a little way off the shore.
The boy made vain efforts to reach the shore.
The boat anchored near the shore.
Another ten minutes' walk brought us to the shore.
A few minutes' walk brought me to the shore.
We walked along the shore of the lake.
My favorite pastime is strolling along the shore.
The promenade is parallel to the shore.
Our boat drifted to shore on the tide.
Millions of dollars have been spent trying to shore up the company.
Now, get off the boat and swim to shore.
The raft has drifted far off from the shore.
Credit relaxation is considered necessary to shore up business.

Movie subtitles

As soon as the criminals were brought to shore, the storm began to rage again.
To the shore.
A delegate from shore.
Another crew of students arrives on shore.
I induced Captain Hollister, an old friend of mine, to put back to shore, and I followed you.
Open your arms to them and care for our loved ones until we meet again on the other shore.
Approaching shore!
She's water lapping on the shore.
There will be no more shore leave.
To the shore! Retreat back to the shore!
Where are you going? To the shore!
There are huge red rocks, and the ocean, and casinos all along the shore.
Pinocchio, swim for shore. Swim for shore.
I fell in love with the white city of Algiers that embraces the Mediterranean shore.
When's there a boat leaving again for shore?
Pole for shore.
She forced a window and escaped to the shore. She fought herself home.
Shore leave permitted if and when I can spare you.
Unfortunately, you will have no shore leave while we're here at Tahiti.
I was about to send an armed shore party to look for you.
Shore leave in heaven, duty in hell again.
The last shore boat's coming alongside.
I'm on another shore now, you know.
Shore throat.
They have stepped upon the sunlit shore.
A shore throat.
If you want any more fat pickings on the shore, just obey orders.
We'll need all hands on shore.
That ship sailing down from Falmouth in the gale. Somewhere on the shore, a beacon is going out.
When the boat seemed a safe distance from the shore, I took a spike, and drove it again and again through the planking of the hull. I had opened up the seacocks and the water began to come in fast.
Were you on the shore that last night she went out, when she didn't come back?
In a pig's eye. I'm gonna get me a shore job.
O, do but think you stand upon the shore and thence behold a city on the inconstant billows dancing, holding due course to Harfleur.
You come along the lee shore of Anguilla from the south.

News and current affairs

I grew up in an industrial town on the south shore of Lake Michigan - Gary, Indiana - and saw poverty, unemployment, and discrimination.
In response, Italy's President has asked the entrepreneurial classes to help shore up the country's competitiveness.
The world's rapid economic growth in 2004 shows that the efforts to shore up our defenses since the 1990's has paid off.
The government may have to shore up the financial system if the changes in asset prices that undermined the dollar sink risk-loving or imprudent lenders.
But, perhaps more than that, Morsi will need tangible achievements on the economic and domestic-security fronts to shore up his legitimacy at home.
From Dublin on the shore of the Irish Sea to Bratislava in the foothills of the Carpathians, the same coins and banknotes are legal tender, and they are constantly pushing back the European Union's boundaries.
But no amount of finger pointing can obscure the fact that, 50 years after the European Community's creation, Europe badly needs a new political framework, if not a new project, to shore up its unity.
The only way for the government to shore up growth in the short run is to pursue more debt-driven stimulus, as it did earlier this year.
To prevent that, we seek to shore up our current intention to lose weight.
No matter: Zeman took the opportunity to shore up his popularity by appealing to racist and xenophobic sentiments, telling several thousand listeners (separated by police from a large counter-demonstration) that they were not extremists.
Eight weeks later, Hurricane Sandy struck the New Jersey shore and New York City.
Today, a G-8 or G-20 agreement on exchanges of tax information could help to shore up national revenue bases and the reputations of governments for tax fairness.
Even before his fall, the opposition controlled most big Serbian cities, and in 2000 he lost the election that he called to shore up his authority.
Closer to the shore, many natural ecosystems, most notably coral reefs and mangroves, act as natural shock absorbers and wave breakers.
The financial crisis and recession may dampen the rise of FDI protectionism, as countries seek capital to shore up local firms and increase investment to help them promote economic recovery.
At the moment, Europe's banks desperately need to shore up their balance sheets.
If China proves itself willing to help shore up Afghan President Hamid Karzai's administration, it will not seek to gain any immediate advantage from the withdrawal of US forces.
Were the measures taken two weeks ago to shore up the financial system simply wrong?
In order to shore up their financial systems and overall demand, emerging-market countries must be ready to take actions similar to those pursued by the advanced countries.
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's government, which began its term this year with an understanding that economic growth will slow sharply, devalued the real in order to shore up the country's competitiveness.
But, above all, politicians must stop trying to shore up their diminished credibility with the pretense of economic science.
In the last few years, while American leaders continued to ride the neoliberal wave, much of the rest of the world was already standing on the shore.
So what can be done to shore up global aggregate demand and growth prospects, while preserving the economic openness that has benefited major parts of the developing world so greatly in the past 30 years?
Indeed, the regime has hinted that it may be willing to compromise on the issue - the delineation of the 1967 border along a tiny piece of land on the Eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee - that wrecked the negotiations eight years ago.

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