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INSHORE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does inshore mean?
• INSHORE (adjective)
The adjective INSHORE has 2 senses:
1. (of winds) coming from the sea toward the land
Familiarity information: INSHORE used as an adjective is rare.
• INSHORE (adverb)
The adverb INSHORE has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: INSHORE used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of winds) coming from the sea toward the land
Synonyms:
Context example:
an onshore gale
Antonym:
offshore ((of winds) coming from the land)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Close to a shore
Context example:
inshore fisheries
Similar:
coastal (located on or near or bordering on a coast)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Toward the shore
Context example:
we swam two miles inshore
Context examples
From the point the shore curved away, more and more to the south and west, until at last it disclosed a cove within the cove, a little land-locked harbour, the water level as a pond, broken only by tiny ripples where vagrant breaths and wisps of the storm hurtled down from over the frowning wall of rock that backed the beach a hundred feet inshore.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
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