Look up: beach

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   Beach
   Beach is a city in Golden Valley County North Dakota, USA. Beach is a township in Golden Valley County North Dakota, USA.
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   Beach
   (1) A deposit of non-cohesive material (e.g. sand, GRAVEL) situated on the interface between dry land and the sea (or other large expanse of water) and actively 'worked' by present-day hydrodynamics processes (i.e. waves, tides and CURRENTS) and sometimes by winds. (2) The zone of unconsolidated material that extends landward from the LOW WATER LINE to the place where there is marked change in material or physiographic form, or to the line of permanent vegetation. The seaward limit of a BEACH – ...
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   Beach
   Naval 'On the Beach' Naval slang expression normally, and originally, meaning retired from the Service, but of recent years sometimes used to describe an appointment to a shore establishment.
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   beach
   [n] - an area of sand sloping down to the water of a sea or lake 2. [v] - land on a beach, as of watercraft
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   BEACH
   placement of extra sand and shingle,to replace sand washed away Category: Environment • seine that is shot in a semicircle and hauled in from the shore Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries • a type of seine net,which is usually set from a boat and operated from the shore Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing indus...
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   Beach
   Beach (bēch) noun ; plural Beaches (-ĕz). [ Confer Swedish backe hill, Danish bakke , Icelandic bakki hill, bank. Confer 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 (Zoology) , ...
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   Beach
   Beach transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Beached (bēcht); present participle & verbal noun Beaching .] To run or drive (as a vessel or a boat) upon a beach; to strand; as, to beach a ship.
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   beach
   1. Pebbles, collectively; shingle. ... 2. <ecology> The shore of the sea, or of a lake, which is washed by the waves; especially, a sandy or pebbly shore; the strand. 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 co ...
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   beach
   noun an area of sand sloping down to the water of a sea or lake
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    beach
    verb land on a beach; `the ship beached near the port`
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    beach
    a narrow strip of land that rises gradually from an adjacent body of water, usually consisting of sand and/or small stones
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    Beach
    A `beach`, or `strand`, is a geological landform consisting of loose rock particles - such as sand, gravel, shingle, pebbles, cobble - or even shell fragments, along the shoreline of a body of water. Beaches occur along coastal areas, where wave or current action deposits and reworks sediments, or at the margin of land along a lake or river subject to erosion caused by rainfall. Beaches are not necessarily found in conjunction with salt water, su...
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    Beach
    • (n.) Pebbles, collectively; shingle. • (v. t.) To run or drive (as a vessel or a boat) upon a beach; to strand; as, to beach a ship. • (n.) The shore of the sea, or of a lake, which is washed by the waves; especially, a sandy or pebbly shore; the strand.
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    beach
    sediments that accumulate along the sea or lake shores, the configuration and contours of which depend on the action of coastal processes, the kinds ... [5 related articles]
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    Beach
    The terrestrial interface area in between land and a water body where there are accumulations of unconsolidated sediments like sand and gravel. These deposits are laid down by the action of breaking waves.
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    beach
    beach, a gently sloping zone where deposits of unconsolidated sediments are subject to wave action at the shore of an ocean or lake. Most of the sediment making up a beach is supplied by rivers or by the erosion of highlands adjacent to the coast. Beaches extend from a low waterline landward to a de...
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