BEACH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does beach mean? 

• BEACH (noun)
  The noun BEACH has 1 sense:

1. an area of sand sloping down to the water of a sea or lake

  Familiarity information: BEACH used as a noun is very rare.

• BEACH (verb)
  The verb BEACH has 1 sense:

1. land on a beach

  Familiarity information: BEACH used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BEACH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An area of sand sloping down to the water of a sea or lake

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("beach" is a kind of...):

formation; geological formation ((geology) the geological features of the earth)

Meronyms (substance of "beach"):

sand (a loose material consisting of grains of rock or coral)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "beach"):

plage (the beach at a seaside resort)

Holonyms ("beach" is a part of...):

shore (the land along the edge of a body of water)

Derivation:

beach (land on a beach)

• BEACH (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they beach    ... he / she / it beaches   
Past simple: beached   
Past participle: beached   
-ing form: beaching   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Land on a beach

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

the ship beached near the port

Hypernyms (to "beach" is one way to...):

land; set down (reach or come to rest)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Sentence example:

The men beach the boat

Derivation:

beach (an area of sand sloping down to the water of a sea or lake)

 Context examples 

I had unloaded the boat and carried its contents high up on the beach, where I had set about making a camp.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

When I deserted the schooner and landed on the beach, I headed inland for some place of hiding.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Dark figures are on the beach here and there, sometimes half shrouded in the mist, and seem "men like trees walking."

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The plastic pellets, often derived from synthetic clothing, vehicle tyres, bags, cups and other discarded waste, are commonly found on beaches and in oceans around the world.

(Microplastic pollution adds to oceans’ problems, scidev.net)

Flying to a sunny beach would be ideal now, for Venus in Pisces wants you to be near water.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

There was much of darkness and silence, broken only by the storms and the thunder on the beach of the freezing surf.

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

When they came to the steps, leading upwards from the beach, a gentleman, at the same moment preparing to come down, politely drew back, and stopped to give them way.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

One form of silica, quartz, is a major component of sand found on beaches along the U.S. coasts.

(Exploding Stars Make Key Ingredient in Sand, Glass, NASA)

Buck’s first day on the Dyea beach was like a nightmare.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The days passed pretty much as they had passed before, except—it was a great exception—that little Em'ly and I seldom wandered on the beach now.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)