English words for 'Towards a beach.'
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- The shore of a body of water, especially when sandy or pebbly.
- an area of sand sloping down to the water of a sea or lake
- (sports) A dry, dusty pitch or situation, as though playing on sand.
- (motor racing, euphemistic) Synonym of gravel trap.
- Euphemistic form of bitch (taboo swear word).
- A horizontal strip of land, usually sandy, adjoining water.
- (UK dialectal, Sussex, Kent) The loose pebbles of the seashore, especially worn by waves; shingle.
- The breaking of waves on the shore; the onwards rush of shallow water towards a beach.
- (finance, slang) A fictitious kind of sale of stock or other securities between parties of one interest, or by a broker who is both buyer and seller, and who minds his own interest rather than that of his clients.
- The quantity of clothes washed at a time.
- A thin coat of paint or metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation.
- Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters.
- A piece of ground washed by the action of water, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh.
- The turbulence left in the air by a moving airplane.
- A total failure; a washout.
- The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc.
- (stagecraft) A lighting fixture that can cast a wide beam of light to evenly fill an area with light, as opposed to a spotlight.
- (nautical) The blade of an oar.
- The bow wave or wake of a moving ship, or the vortex from its screws.
- A shallow body of water.
- Ground washed away to the sea or a river.
- A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation.
- A lotion or other liquid with medicinal or hygienic properties.
- In distilling, the fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.
- (television) A lighting effect that fills a scene with a chosen colour.
- Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs; pigwash.
- (idiomatic) A situation in which gains and losses or advantages and disadvantages are equivalent, or in which there is no net change.
- A liquid used for washing.
- (architecture) The upper surface of a member or material when given a slope to shed water; hence, a structure or receptacle shaped so as to receive and carry off water.
- (art) A smooth and translucent painting created using a paintbrush holding a large amount of solvent and a small amount of paint.
- The process or an instance of washing or being washed by water or other liquid.
- In arid and semi-arid regions, the normally dry bed of an intermittent or ephemeral stream; an arroyo or wadi.
- a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other
- a thin coat of water-base paint
- the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)
- the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway)
- the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon)
- garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering
- any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out
- the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
- (intransitive) To bear without damage the operation of being washed; to be suitable for washing.
- (transitive) To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten.
- (transitive) To clean with water.
- (transitive) To cause dephosphorization of (molten pig iron) by adding substances containing iron oxide, and sometimes manganese oxide.
- (intransitive) To clean oneself with water.
- (transitive) To cover with a thin or watery coat of colour; to tint lightly and thinly.
- (intransitive) To move with a lapping or swashing sound; to lap or splash.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be cogent, convincing; to withstand critique.
- (chemistry, transitive) To pass or extract (a gas or gaseous mixture) through or over a liquid for the purpose of purifying it, especially by removing soluble constituents.
- (mining) To separate valuable material (such as gold) from worthless material by the action of flowing water.
- (intransitive) To be eroded or carried away by the action of water.
- (mah-jong) To mix up tiles (before a new game) to make them random; to shuffle.
- (transitive) To carry away or erode by the force of water in motion.
- (transitive) To overlay with a thin coat of metal.
- move by or as if by water
- cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water
- separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals)
- to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking
- remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent
- cleanse (one's body) with soap and water
- wash by removing particles
- admit to testing or proof
- form by erosion
- apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to
- make moist
- wash or flow against
- be capable of being washed
- clean with some chemical process
- A long narrow and shallow trough between ridges on a beach, running parallel to the coastline.
- (UK, dialectal) A gutter in a candle.
- A shallow, usually grassy depression sloping downward from a plains upland meadow or level vegetated ridgetop.
- Bioswale, a shallow trough dug into the land on contour (horizontally with no slope), whose purpose is to allow water time to percolate into the soil.
- A low tract of moist or marshy land.
- A shallow troughlike depression created to carry water during rainstorms or snow melts; a drainage ditch.
- a low area (especially a marshy area between ridges)
- arrive on shore
- bring into a different state
- shoot at and force to come down
- cause to come to the ground
- deliver (a blow)
- bring ashore
- reach or come to rest
- (transitive) To acquire; to secure.
- (intransitive) To descend to a surface, especially from the air.
- (intransitive) To arrive on land, especially a shore or dock, from a body of water.
- (intransitive) To come into rest.
- (intransitive, figurative) To go down well with an audience.
- (intransitive, of a punch) To connect (to arrive at an intended target).
- (slang, transitive) To succeed in having sexual relations with; to score.
- (transitive, informal) To capture or arrest.
- (transitive) To bring to land.
- (transitive, of a blow) To deliver.
- the solid part of the earth's surface
- material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use)
- the territory occupied by a nation
- territory over which rule or control is exercised
- a politically organized body of people under a single government
- extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for their own use
- the people who live in a nation or country
- a domain in which something is dominant
- agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life
- the land on which real estate is located
- The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.
- A country or region.
- (electronics) A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.
- (agriculture) The ground left unploughed between furrows.
- lant; urine
- (ballistics) The space between the rifling grooves in a gun.
- Real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and acquired and on which buildings and structures can be built and erected.
- On a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.
- (Scotland, historical) A group of dwellings or tenements under one roof and having a common entry.
- (Ireland, colloquial) A shock or fright.
- (often in combination) Realm, domain.
- In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, such as the level part of a millstone between the furrows.
- (agriculture) Any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing.
- (nautical) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called also landing.
- (travel) The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc.
- The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming.
- A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.
- the land along the edge of a body of water
- a beam or timber that is propped against a structure to provide support
- A prop or strut supporting some structure or weight above it.
- Land adjoining a non-flowing body of water, such as an ocean, lake or pond.
- (from the perspective of one on a body of water) Land, usually near a port.
- (obsolete except Scotland) A sewer.
- the part of the sea that can be seen from the shore and is beyond the anchoring area
- the near or foreseeable future
- (figuratively) The foreseeable future. Chiefly in the phrase in the offing.
- (nautical) The distance that a ship at sea keeps away from land, often because of navigational dangers, fog and other hazards; a position at a distance from shore.
- (nautical) The area of the sea in which a ship can be seen in the distance from land, excluding the parts nearest the shore, and beyond the anchoring ground.
- move effortlessly; by force of gravity
- (US, Canada, dialect) To slide downhill; to slide on a sled upon snow or ice.
- (intransitive, figurative) To make a minimal effort; to continue to do something in a routine way, without initiative or effort.
- (intransitive, nautical) To sail along a coast.
- (intransitive) To glide along without adding energy; to allow a vehicle to continue moving forward after disengaging the engine or ceasing to apply motive power.
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- The breaking of waves on the shore; the onwards rush of shallow water towards a beach.
- (finance, slang) A fictitious kind of sale of stock or other securities between parties of one interest, or by a broker who is both buyer and seller, and who minds his own interest rather than that of his clients.
- The quantity of clothes washed at a time.
- A thin coat of paint or metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation.
- Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters.
- A piece of ground washed by the action of water, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh.
- The turbulence left in the air by a moving airplane.
- A total failure; a washout.
- The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc.
- (stagecraft) A lighting fixture that can cast a wide beam of light to evenly fill an area with light, as opposed to a spotlight.
- (nautical) The blade of an oar.
- The bow wave or wake of a moving ship, or the vortex from its screws.
- A shallow body of water.
- Ground washed away to the sea or a river.
- A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation.
- A lotion or other liquid with medicinal or hygienic properties.
- In distilling, the fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.
- (television) A lighting effect that fills a scene with a chosen colour.
- Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs; pigwash.
- (idiomatic) A situation in which gains and losses or advantages and disadvantages are equivalent, or in which there is no net change.
- A liquid used for washing.
- (architecture) The upper surface of a member or material when given a slope to shed water; hence, a structure or receptacle shaped so as to receive and carry off water.
- (art) A smooth and translucent painting created using a paintbrush holding a large amount of solvent and a small amount of paint.
- The process or an instance of washing or being washed by water or other liquid.
- In arid and semi-arid regions, the normally dry bed of an intermittent or ephemeral stream; an arroyo or wadi.
- a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other
- a thin coat of water-base paint
- the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)
- the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway)
- the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon)
- garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering
- any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out
- the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
- (intransitive) To bear without damage the operation of being washed; to be suitable for washing.
- (transitive) To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten.
- (transitive) To clean with water.
- (transitive) To cause dephosphorization of (molten pig iron) by adding substances containing iron oxide, and sometimes manganese oxide.
- (intransitive) To clean oneself with water.
- (transitive) To cover with a thin or watery coat of colour; to tint lightly and thinly.
- (intransitive) To move with a lapping or swashing sound; to lap or splash.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be cogent, convincing; to withstand critique.
- (chemistry, transitive) To pass or extract (a gas or gaseous mixture) through or over a liquid for the purpose of purifying it, especially by removing soluble constituents.
- (mining) To separate valuable material (such as gold) from worthless material by the action of flowing water.
- (intransitive) To be eroded or carried away by the action of water.
- (mah-jong) To mix up tiles (before a new game) to make them random; to shuffle.
- (transitive) To carry away or erode by the force of water in motion.
- (transitive) To overlay with a thin coat of metal.
- move by or as if by water
- cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water
- separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals)
- to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking
- remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent
- cleanse (one's body) with soap and water
- wash by removing particles
- admit to testing or proof
- form by erosion
- apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to
- make moist
- wash or flow against
- be capable of being washed
- clean with some chemical process
- The shore of a body of water, especially when sandy or pebbly.
- an area of sand sloping down to the water of a sea or lake
- (sports) A dry, dusty pitch or situation, as though playing on sand.
- (motor racing, euphemistic) Synonym of gravel trap.
- Euphemistic form of bitch (taboo swear word).
- A horizontal strip of land, usually sandy, adjoining water.
- (UK dialectal, Sussex, Kent) The loose pebbles of the seashore, especially worn by waves; shingle.
- A long narrow and shallow trough between ridges on a beach, running parallel to the coastline.
- (UK, dialectal) A gutter in a candle.
- A shallow, usually grassy depression sloping downward from a plains upland meadow or level vegetated ridgetop.
- Bioswale, a shallow trough dug into the land on contour (horizontally with no slope), whose purpose is to allow water time to percolate into the soil.
- A low tract of moist or marshy land.
- A shallow troughlike depression created to carry water during rainstorms or snow melts; a drainage ditch.
- a low area (especially a marshy area between ridges)
- the part of the sea that can be seen from the shore and is beyond the anchoring area
- the near or foreseeable future
- (figuratively) The foreseeable future. Chiefly in the phrase in the offing.
- (nautical) The distance that a ship at sea keeps away from land, often because of navigational dangers, fog and other hazards; a position at a distance from shore.
- (nautical) The area of the sea in which a ship can be seen in the distance from land, excluding the parts nearest the shore, and beyond the anchoring ground.
- move effortlessly; by force of gravity
- (US, Canada, dialect) To slide downhill; to slide on a sled upon snow or ice.
- (intransitive, figurative) To make a minimal effort; to continue to do something in a routine way, without initiative or effort.
- (intransitive, nautical) To sail along a coast.
- (intransitive) To glide along without adding energy; to allow a vehicle to continue moving forward after disengaging the engine or ceasing to apply motive power.
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- The shore of a body of water, especially when sandy or pebbly.
- an area of sand sloping down to the water of a sea or lake
- (sports) A dry, dusty pitch or situation, as though playing on sand.
- (motor racing, euphemistic) Synonym of gravel trap.
- Euphemistic form of bitch (taboo swear word).
- A horizontal strip of land, usually sandy, adjoining water.
- (UK dialectal, Sussex, Kent) The loose pebbles of the seashore, especially worn by waves; shingle.
- arrive on shore
- bring into a different state
- shoot at and force to come down
- cause to come to the ground
- deliver (a blow)
- bring ashore
- reach or come to rest
- (transitive) To acquire; to secure.
- (intransitive) To descend to a surface, especially from the air.
- (intransitive) To arrive on land, especially a shore or dock, from a body of water.
- (intransitive) To come into rest.
- (intransitive, figurative) To go down well with an audience.
- (intransitive, of a punch) To connect (to arrive at an intended target).
- (slang, transitive) To succeed in having sexual relations with; to score.
- (transitive, informal) To capture or arrest.
- (transitive) To bring to land.
- (transitive, of a blow) To deliver.
- the solid part of the earth's surface
- material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use)
- the territory occupied by a nation
- territory over which rule or control is exercised
- a politically organized body of people under a single government
- extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for their own use
- the people who live in a nation or country
- a domain in which something is dominant
- agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life
- the land on which real estate is located
- The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.
- A country or region.
- (electronics) A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.
- (agriculture) The ground left unploughed between furrows.
- lant; urine
- (ballistics) The space between the rifling grooves in a gun.
- Real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and acquired and on which buildings and structures can be built and erected.
- On a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.
- (Scotland, historical) A group of dwellings or tenements under one roof and having a common entry.
- (Ireland, colloquial) A shock or fright.
- (often in combination) Realm, domain.
- In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, such as the level part of a millstone between the furrows.
- (agriculture) Any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing.
- (nautical) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called also landing.
- (travel) The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc.
- The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming.
- A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.
- the land along the edge of a body of water
- a beam or timber that is propped against a structure to provide support
- A prop or strut supporting some structure or weight above it.
- Land adjoining a non-flowing body of water, such as an ocean, lake or pond.
- (from the perspective of one on a body of water) Land, usually near a port.
- (obsolete except Scotland) A sewer.