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coast·line

(kōst′līn′)

The shape, outline, or boundary of a coast.

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coastline

(ˈkəʊstˌlaɪn)

(Physical Geography) the outline of a coast, esp when seen from the sea, or the land adjacent to it

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coast•line

(ˈkoʊstˌlaɪn)

n.

1. the outline or contour of a coast; shoreline.

2. the land and water lying adjacent to a shoreline.

[1855–60]

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Noun

coastline - the outline of a coast

lineation, outline - the line that appears to bound an object

Translations

ακτογραμμή παράλια

litorale

coastline

[ˈkəʊstlaɪn] N → litoral m

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coastline

[ˈkəʊstlaɪn] n → côte f, littoral m

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coastline

[ˈkəʊstˌlaɪn] n → litorale m, linea costiera

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

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Beginning with a raid on two steamship companies, it developed into a pitched battle with a city, a state, and a continental coastline. Very well; they wanted fight, and they would get it.

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I had seen a distant headland past the extreme edge of the promontory, and as we looked we could see grow the intervening coastline of what was evidently a deep cove.

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As close in as we dared cruise, we found fathomless depths, and always the same undented coastline of bald cliffs.

We both scanned the water and the coastline. Bradley evidently discovered something, or at least thought that he had.

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But to blockade and watch a coastline is one thing, to blockade and watch the whole surface of a country is another, and cruisers and privateers are things that take long to make, that cannot be packed up and hidden and carried unostentatiously from point to point.

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A group of fishermen has proposed the rehabilitation of the entire coastal area here, as they complained that pollution - allegedly caused by big companies - along the coastlines has affected the livelihood of small fisherfolk and the health of villagers.

Fishermen ask gov't to rehab Bataan coastal area

Satellite imagery released by Karagatan Patrol showed that from 2016 to 2018, foreign vessels entering Philippine EEZ have been getting near coastlines of provinces facing the West Philippine Sea.

Satellite imagery shows foreign vessels getting near Philippine coastline

He said shipwrecks in turn caused various problems that impacted negatively on the environment, hence the need to improve the capacity of the Nigerian Navy on protection of the nation's coastlines.

Environmentalist raises the alarm over dumping wrecks in Nigerian waterways

We have sandy beaches, excellent coastlines to behold.

'Can anyone own the beach?'

In this paper four opinions are quoted, followed by discussions both of Le Testu's charts and their commentaries, and of the means by which the cartographers of the Dieppe school distinguished real from conjectural coastlines, and finally the significance of his planisphere of 1566, which does not depict Java la Grande.