beach
(noun) an area of sand sloping down to the water of a sea or lake
beach
(verb) land on a beach; “the ship beached near the port”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
beach (plural beaches)
The shore of a body of water, especially when sandy or pebbly.
A horizontal strip of land, usually sandy, adjoining water.
(UK dialectal, Sussex, Kent) The loose pebbles of the seashore, especially worn by waves; shingle.
• (horizontal strip of land adjoining water): sand, strand, backshore
beach (third-person singular simple present beaches, present participle beaching, simple past and past participle beached)
(intransitive) To run aground on a beach.
(transitive) To run (something) aground on a beach.
(of a vehicle) To run into an obstacle or rough or soft ground, so that the floor of the vehicle rests on the ground and the wheels cannot gain traction.
• strand
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Beach
A surname.
A hamlet and village in Gloucestershire, England.
A small city, the county seat of Golden Valley County, North Dakota.
• Bache, bache
Source: Wiktionary
Beach, n.; pl. Beaches (. Etym: [Cf. Sw. backe hill, Dan. bakke, Icel. bakki hill, bank. Cf. Bank.]
1. Pebbles, collectively; shingle.
2. The shore of the sea, or of a lake, which is washed by the waves; especially, a sandy or pebbly shore; the strand. Beach flea (Zoöl.), the common name of many species of amphipod Crustacea, of the family Orchestidæ, living on the sea beaches, and leaping like fleas.
– Beach grass (Bot.), a coarse grass (Ammophila arundinacea), growing on the sandy shores of lakes and seas, which, by its interlaced running rootstocks, binds the sand together, and resists the encroachment of the waves.
– Beach wagon, a light open wagon with two or more seats.
– Raised beach, an accumulation of water-worn stones, gravel, sand, and other shore deposits, above the present level of wave action, whether actually raised by elevation of the coast, as in Norway, or left by the receding waters, as in many lake and river regions.
Beach, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Beached (p. pr. & vb. n. Beaching.]
Definition: To run or drive (as a vessel or a boat) upon a beach; to strand; as, to beach a ship.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 December 2024
(noun) Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit
Coffee is a brewed drink prepared from roasted coffee beans, the seeds of berries from certain Coffea species. When coffee berries turn from green to bright red – indicating ripeness – they are picked, processed, and dried. Dried coffee seeds are roasted to varying degrees, depending on the desired flavor.
