shore

«shore» in Mova's school dictionary: the land at the edge of a sea or lake — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (shore, shores); verb (shore up, shores, shored, shoring)

meaning for a pupil

1) The shore is the land at the edge of a sea or lake. tree →

2) To shore up something is to hold it up with supports so it does not fall. tree →

sense in the lessons

a setting; distance from the shore; shells found on the shore; in science: waves wear away the shore, tides come in and go out, crabs and seabirds live there; in safety: swim near the shore and between the flags, watch the tide; phrases: «on shore», «ashore», «offshore», «the seashore»

examples

• She found 14 shells on the shore. tree →
• The boat is 300 m from the shore. tree →
• They walked 2 km along the shore. tree →
• How many shells in all? tree →
• Waves crashed onto the rocky shore. tree →
• Stay close to the shore when you swim. tree →
• Crabs scuttled along the shore at low tide. tree →
• The sailors swam ashore. tree →
• Workers shored up the old wall with wooden beams. tree →
• The canoe floated to the shore. tree →

note

A story word; the numbers are shells or distances. Homophone: «sure» sounds similar in some accents. «Ashore» means onto or on the shore. «Seashore» = sea + shore.

In the corpora

• The Rat is laughing as he pushes him to shore with the oars under his arms.
• It's the jolly times on shore that appeal to me».
• A rip current is a strong current that flows away from the shore.
• A rip current is a narrow, fast flow of water moving away from the shore.
• Most rips are narrow, so a short swim parallel to the shore takes you out of them.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «shore» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.