shore
Meaning of shore
- the land along the edge of a sea, lake, or other large body of water.
I made for the shore
Middle English: from Middle Dutch, Middle Low German schōre ; perhaps related to the verb shear.
noun
a prop or beam set obliquely against something weak or unstable as a support.
verb- support or hold up something with props or beams.
rescue workers had to shore up the building, which was in danger of collapse
Middle English: from Middle Dutch, Middle Low German schore ‘prop’, of unknown origin.
verb, past tense
archaic past of shear.
Information about shore
- The plural form of shore is: shores.
- Languages in which shore is used:
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Hyphenation of shore
shore
- It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
- shore is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
shore synonyms
Meaning shoring:
Meaning land:
Meaning prop up:
Meaning an area of sandy, stony, or rocky land bordering and level with the sea:
Meaning a place by the sea, especially a beach area or holiday resort:
Meaning a pebbly or sandy shore, especially by the sea between high- and low-water marks:
Meaning the part of the land adjoining or near the sea:
Meaning a region bordering the sea; the coastline:
Meaning the land alongside or sloping down to a river or lake:
Meaning the land adjacent to a lake:
Meaning an edge or border:
Meaning the outside limit of an object, area, or surface:
Meaning the line along which a large body of water meets the land:
Meaning the edge of or area adjoining a sea, lake, or river:
Meaning the side or part of an object that presents itself to view or that is normally seen or used first; the most forward part of something:
Meaning the edge of a shore:
Meaning the part of a shore between high- and low-water marks, or between the water and cultivated or developed land:
Meaning a loose granular substance, typically pale yellowish brown, resulting from the erosion of siliceous and other rocks and forming a major constituent of beaches, river beds, the seabed, and deserts:
Meaning a region lying along a shore:
Meaning the shore of a sea, lake, or large river:
Meaning bear all or part of the weight of; hold up:
Meaning make (a structure) stronger or firmer with wood, iron, or other forms of support:
Meaning provide (a building or structure) with buttresses:
Meaning make or become stronger:
Meaning provide (a place) with defensive works as protection against attack:
Meaning strengthen or support (an object or substance), especially with additional material:
Meaning support (a building or other structure) from below by laying a solid foundation below ground level or by substituting stronger for weaker materials:
Meaning tie up the wings and legs of (a chicken or other bird) before cooking:
Meaning remain in the same place:
Meaning support, especially with a prop:
Translation of shore
- Spanish: costa, ribera, orilla, apoyar, apuntalar, afincar
- French: côte, rive, rivage
- Italian: costa, riva, armare, puntellare
- Portuguese: costa
- German: Ufer
Anagrams of shore
Heros, heros, hoers, horse, hoser, Osher
Words that rhyme with shore
hore, Lahore, lahore, Terpsichore, anemochore, biochore, chore, cryochore, hydrochore, isochore, kinetochore, poechore, terpsichore, zoochore, Johore, actinophore, adenophore, aerophore, allophore, amphore, androgametophore, androphore, antheridiophore, anthophore, anthrophore, antrophore, archegoniophore, aromatophore, ascophore, aurophore, azophosphore, balanophore, basidiophore, biophore, blastophore, canephore, carpophore, chelophore, chlamydophore, chlamyphore, chondrophore, chromaphore, chromatophore, chromophore, cnibophore, cnidophore, collophore, conidiophore, craniophore, criophore