beach
IPA: bˈitʃ
noun
- The shore of a body of water, especially when sandy or pebbly.
- A horizontal strip of land, usually sandy, adjoining water.
- (UK dialectal, Sussex, Kent) The loose pebbles of the seashore, especially worn by waves; shingle.
- (motor racing, euphemistic) Synonym of gravel trap
- (sports) A dry, dusty pitch or situation, as though playing on sand.
- A surname.
- A surname from English
- A surname from landforms
- A surname from German
- A placename
- A hamlet in Bitton parish, South Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom (OS grid ref ST7070).
- A number of places in the United States:
- An unincorporated community in Ware County, Georgia
- An unincorporated community in Webster County, Missouri.
- A small city, the county seat of Golden Valley County, North Dakota.
- An unincorporated community on Lummi Island, Whatcom County, Washington.
verb
- (intransitive) To run aground on a beach.
- (transitive) To run (something) aground on a beach.
- (of a vehicle) To run into an obstacle or rough or soft ground, so that the floor of the vehicle rests on the ground and the wheels cannot gain traction.
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Examples of "beach" in Sentences
- We collected sea shells on the beach.
- Flood waters recede from Delaware beaches.
- The entourage proceeded next to the sea, reaching the beach.
- I pretended it was a shot of the moon over the beach and sea.
- Both end of the beach consist of rocks jutting out into the sea.
- I was pretended it was a shot of the moon over the beach and sea.
- Both ends of the beach consist of rocks jutting out into the sea.
- As the lifeboat reached the beach, the first explosion shook the boat.
- It has the longest unbroken sea beach in the world in the Cox's Bazaar.
- The beach and the dunes are eroded by the sea in the western part of Juist.
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