Coast

/kəʊst/ · noun

Meaning

The edge of the land where it meets an ocean, sea, gulf, bay, or large lake..

Definitions by Sense

1. The edge of the land where it meets an ocean, sea, gulf, bay, or large lake.
2. (obsolete) The side or edge of something.
3. (obsolete) A region of land; a district or country.
4. (obsolete) A region of the air or heavens.
5. (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.
6. (intransitive, nautical) To sail along a coast.
7. (intransitive, figurative) To make a minimal effort; to continue to do something in a routine way, without initiative or effort.
8. (intransitive, obsolete) To draw near to; to approach; to keep near, or by the side of.

Example Sentences

The rocky coast of Maine has few beaches.

And the Coaſt towards which the lines KL and VX are drawn, may be call’d the Coaſt of unuſual Refraction.

Then Herod perceavynge that he was moocked off the wyse men, was excedynge wroth, and sent forth and slue all the chyldren that were in bethleem, and in all the costes thereof […]

P. Crescentius, in his lib. 1 de agric. cap. 5, is very copious in this subject, how a house should be wholesomely sited, in a good coast, good air, wind, etc.

the learned Merlin, well could tell, / Vnder what coast of heauen the man did dwell […]

When I ran out of gas, fortunately I managed to coast into a nearby gas station.

We steamed easily across the first part of the Tay Bridge, and then after passing over the long spans in mid-stream we coasted smoothly down the 1 in 114 gradient, and around the sweeping curve through Esplanade Station.

Avanti West Coast has introduced the use of coasting with its Pendolino fleet, in an effort to keep disruption during overhead line equipment failures to a minimum. [...] The Class 390s coasted for three miles without power between Harrow & Wealdstone and Wembley Central, running under damaged OLE.

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• coasts
• coasting
• coasted

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