SHORE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shore mean? 

• SHORE (noun)
  The noun SHORE has 2 senses:

1. the land along the edge of a body of water

2. a beam or timber that is propped against a structure to provide support

  Familiarity information: SHORE used as a noun is rare.

• SHORE (verb)
  The verb SHORE has 3 senses:

1. serve as a shore to

2. arrive on shore

3. support by placing against something solid or rigid

  Familiarity information: SHORE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHORE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The land along the edge of a body of water

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

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

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

Meronyms (parts of "shore"):

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

shoreline (a boundary line between land and water)

Domain category:

lake (a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land)

ocean (a large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere)

river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))

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

lakeshore; lakeside (the shore of a lake)

coast; sea-coast; seacoast; seashore (the shore of a sea or ocean)

strand (a poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides))

Derivation:

shore (arrive on shore)

shore (serve as a shore to)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A beam or timber that is propped against a structure to provide support

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

shore; shoring

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

beam (long thick piece of wood or metal or concrete, etc., used in construction)

Derivation:

shore (support by placing against something solid or rigid)

• SHORE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they shore    ... he / she / it shores   
Past simple: shored   
Past participle: shored   
-ing form: shoring   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Serve as a shore to

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Context example:

The river was shored by trees

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

border; bound (form the boundary of; be contiguous to)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Derivation:

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Arrive on shore

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

land; set ashore; shore

Context example:

The ship landed in Pearl Harbor

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

arrive; come; get (reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

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

Sense 3

Meaning:

Support by placing against something solid or rigid

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

prop; prop up; shore; shore up

Context example:

shore and buttress an old building

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

hold; hold up; support; sustain (be the physical support of; carry the weight of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "shore"):

bolster (prop up with a pillow or bolster)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Derivation:

shore (a beam or timber that is propped against a structure to provide support)

shoring (the act of propping up with shores)

 Context examples 

Soon after, the jolly-boat shoved off and pulled for shore, and the man with the red cap and his comrade went below by the cabin companion.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I cannot get to shore. There is much danger.

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

A small possession on the shores of Como belonged to her.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Thus, in fine, if he escape not on shore to-night, or before dawn, there will be the whole day lost to him.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I have an association between it and a stormy wind, or the lightest mention of a sea-shore, as strong as any of which my mind is conscious.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

They were the first warning that I was on a lee shore.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

"Keep near the shore. It isn't safe in the middle." Jo heard, but Amy was struggling to her feet and did not catch a word.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The boy took me out in my box, about half an hours walk from the palace, towards the rocks on the sea-shore.

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

For the third time the drowning man came to the surface, his hands full of green slimy water-plants, his eyes turned in despair to the shore.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At the end of this day they made a bleak and miserable camp on the shore of Lake Le Barge.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)