COAST

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coast I. substantiv

1. coastă, ţărm (de mare), litoral;

bold coast ţărm abrupt / povârnit / râpos; faleză cu pantă repede;

ironbound coast ţărm stâncos / pietros;

shallow coast coastă joasă, mal scund;

along the coast de-a lungul ţărmului;

(fig.) the coast is clear nu mai e nici o primejdie, pericolul a trecut, drumul e liber, nu sunt obstacole.

2. (amer.) munţi acoperiţi cu zăpadă; pârtie de săniuş, derdeluş.

3. (amer.) coborâre a unei pante (cu bicicleta, fără frână sau cu automobilul, fără motor).

coast II. verb A. intranzitiv

1. a naviga de-a lungul ţărmului; a pluti paralel cu coasta.

2. (amer.) a se da cu sania pe derdeluş.

3. (amer.) a coborî o pantă (cu bicicleta, fără frână sau cu automobilul, fără motor).

coast II. verb B. tranzitiv

a naviga pe lângă, aproape de; a urma linia coastei (unei ţări, insule etc.).

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

After that we go down to the coast at St. Michaels.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)

We may expect to meet Death Larsen on the Japan coast.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

People can't die, along the coast, said Mr. Peggotty, except when the tide's pretty nigh out.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

But it was too late, there was no room for it, and coasting onto the floor, it disappeared in a most mysterious manner.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

Act in January and decide on letting things coast a little as you move closer to the retrograde in February.

(AstrologyZone.com, de Susan Miller)

The squire and Gray were busy helping the captain with his bandages, the coast was clear, I made a bolt for it over the stockade and into the thickest of the trees, and before my absence was observed I was out of cry of my companions.

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

Henry Crawford had quite made up his mind by the next morning to give another fortnight to Mansfield, and having sent for his hunters, and written a few lines of explanation to the Admiral, he looked round at his sister as he sealed and threw the letter from him, and seeing the coast clear of the rest of the family, said, with a smile, And how do you think I mean to amuse myself, Mary, on the days that I do not hunt?

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

It was early, there were folk upon the roads, they were afraid of being seen with the silver, so they sank it in the pond, intending to return for it when the coast was clear.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I answered, that I came over the sea, from a far place, with many others of my own kind, in a great hollow vessel made of the bodies of trees: that my companions forced me to land on this coast, and then left me to shift for myself.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

We were near to the coast, where the wind blows hard and there is much snow.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)

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