the land next to the sea; seashore: the rocky coast of Maine.
2.
the region adjoining it: They live on the coast, a few miles from the sea.
3.
a hill or slope down which one may slide on a sled.
4.
a slide or ride down a hill or slope, as on a sled.
5.
Obsolete. the boundary or border of a country.
6.
the Coast, Informal. (in the U.S. and Canada) the region bordering on the Pacific Ocean; the West Coast: I'm flying out to the Coast next week.
–verb (used without object)
7.
to slide on a sled down a snowy or icy hillside or incline.
8.
to descend a hill or the like, as on a bicycle, without using pedals.
9.
to continue to move or advance after effort has ceased; keep going on acquired momentum: We cut off the car engine and coasted for a while.
10.
to advance or proceed with little or no effort, esp. owing to one's actual or former assets, as wealth, position, or name, or those of another: The actor coasted to stardom on his father's name.
11.
to sail along, or call at the various ports of, a coast.
12.
Obsolete. to proceed in a roundabout way.
–verb (used with object)
13.
to cause to move along under acquired momentum: to coast a rocket around the sun.
14.
to proceed along or near the coast of.
15.
Obsolete. to keep alongside of (a person moving).
16.
Obsolete. to go by the side or border of.
—Idiom
17.
the coast is clear, no danger or impediment exists; no persons are in the path or vicinity: The boys waited until the coast was clear before climbing over the wall.
[Origin: 1325–75; (n.) ME cost(e) < AF, MF < L costa rib, side, wall; (v.) ME cost(e)yen, costen < AF costeier, OF costoier, deriv. of the n.]
—Synonyms 1. strand, seaside, littoral. See shore1.
c.1125, from O.Fr. coste "shore, coast," from L. costa "a rib," developing a sense in M.L. of the shore as the "side" of the land. Fr. also used this word for "hillside, slope," which led to verb use of "sled downhill," first attested 1775 in Amer.Eng. Coaster "round stand for a decanter" is first attested 1887, possibly from a resemblance to sleds or because it "coasts" around the table to each guest after dinner.
a slope down which sleds may coast; "when it snowed they made a coast on the golf course"
3.
the area within view; "the coast is clear"
4.
the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it; "his slide didn't stop until the bottom of the hill"; "the children lined up for a coast down the snowy slope" [syn: slide]
the side or border of land next to the sea Example: The coast was very rocky.
Arabic:
ساحِل
Chinese (Simplified):
海岸
Chinese (Traditional):
海岸
Czech:
pobřeží
Danish:
kyst
Dutch:
kust
Estonian:
rannik
Finnish:
rannikko
French:
cte
German:
die Küste
Greek:
ακτή
Hungarian:
(tenger)part
Icelandic:
strönd
Indonesian:
pantai
Italian:
costa
Japanese:
沿岸
Korean:
해변
Latvian:
krasts; piekraste
Lithuanian:
pakrantė
Norwegian:
kyst
Polish:
wybrzeże
Portuguese (Brazil):
costa
Portuguese (Portugal):
costa
Romanian:
ţărm, coastă, litoral
Russian:
морской берег
Slovak:
pobrežie
Slovenian:
obala
Spanish:
costa, litoral
Swedish:
kust
Turkish:
kıyı, sahil
coast[kəust]verb
to travel downhill (in a vehicle, on a bicycle etc) without the use of any power such as the engine or pedalling Example: He coasted for two miles after the car ran out of petrol.
Palm Coast, FL (CDP, FIPS 54200) Location: 29.57115 N, 81.21410 W Population (1990): 14287 (7522 housing units) Area: 51.5 sq km (land), 2.7 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 32137
Ac*coast"\, v. t. & i. [See Accost, Coast.] To lie or sail along the coast or side of; to accost. [Obs.] Whether high towering or accoasting low. --Spenser.
Ac*cost"\ (#; 115), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Accosted; p. pr. & vb. n. Accosting.] [F. accoster, LL. accostare to bring side by side; L. ad + costa rib, side. See Coast, and cf. Accoast.]1. To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of. [Obs.] "So much [of Lapland] as accosts the sea." --Fuller. 2. To approach; to make up to. [Archaic] --Shak. 3. To speak to first; to address; to greet. "Him, Satan thus accosts." --Milton.
Coast\, n. [OF. coste, F. c[^o]te, rib, hill, shore, coast, L. costa rib, side. Cf. Accost, v. t., Cutlet.]1. The side of a thing. [Obs.] --Sir I. Newton. 2. The exterior line, limit, or border of a country; frontier border. [Obs.] From the river, the river Euphrates, even to the uttermost sea, shall your coast be. --Deut. xi. 24. 3. The seashore, or land near it. He sees in English ships the Holland coast. --Dryden. We the Arabian coast do know At distance, when the species blow. --Waller. The coast is clear, the danger is over; no enemy in sight. --Dryden. Fig.: There are no obstacles. "Seeing that the coast was clear, Zelmane dismissed Musidorus." --Sir P. Sidney. Coast guard. (a) A body of men originally employed along the coast to prevent smuggling; now, under the control of the admiralty, drilled as a naval reserve. [Eng.] (b) The force employed in life-saving stations along the seacoast. [U. S.] Coast rat (Zo["o]l.), a South African mammal (Bathyergus suillus), about the size of a rabbit, remarkable for its extensive burrows; -- called also sand mole. Coast waiter, a customhouse officer who superintends the landing or shipping of goods for the coast trade. [Eng.]
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