Inshore

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • ad. Close to a shore.
  • ad. Toward or coming toward a shore.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Close to (especially in sight of) a shore
  • adj. Blowing from the sea to the land
  • ad. Near the shore
  • ad. Towards the shore
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Being near or moving towards the shore
  • n. near the shore.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Near the shore; toward the shore; on the shore side: as, the ship lay, or was moving, inshore.
  • Situated near the shore; relatively near to the shore; specifically, as applied to fishing or fisheries, situated within about five miles of the shore: opposed to offshore: as, inshore fishing.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. (of winds) coming from the sea toward the land
  • adj. close to a shore
  • ad. toward the shore
    • Equivalent
    coastal   
    Cross Reference
    insure    offshore    deep-sea    ensure   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
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