SHORELINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shoreline mean? 

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

1. a boundary line between land and water

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHORELINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A boundary line between land and water

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

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

bound; boundary; bounds (the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something)

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

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

 Context examples 

In 2018, more than 20 million tons of it floated in surface waters and became a problem to shorelines lining the tropical Atlantic, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and east coast of Florida.

(Satellites Find Biggest Seaweed Bloom in the World, NASA)

The research may help in the creation of genetically altered seaweeds that could be used as crops, assist in predicting the spread of seaweed pests, and – as climate warms and pollution possibly increases – control invasive seaweeds that blanket shorelines.

(Red seaweeds, including those in sushi, thrive despite ancestor's loss of genes, National Science Foundation)

Emperor penguins tend to build their colonies on ice with extremely specific conditions — it must be locked into the shoreline of the Antarctic continent, but close enough to open seawater to give the birds access to food for themselves and their young.

(Unless warming is slowed, emperor penguins will march toward extinction, National Science Foundation)

In 2011, Sargassum populations started to explode in places it hadn’t been before, like the central Atlantic Ocean, and then it arrived in gargantuan gobs that suffocated shorelines and introduced a new nuisance for local environments and economies.

(Satellites Find Biggest Seaweed Bloom in the World, NASA)