Engels Woord van de dag

coast

kust

Definities

Engels > Nederlands

coast

1. kust, kustlijn

Engels > Engels

coast

1. n. (obsolete) The side or edge of something.

2. n. The edge of the land where it meets an ocean, sea, gulf, bay, or large lake.

The rocky coast of Maine has few beaches.

3. n. (obsolete) A region of land; a district or country.

4. n. (obsolete) A region of the air or heavens.

5. v. (intransitive) To glide along without adding energy; to allow a vehicle to continue moving forward after disengaging the engine or ceasing to apply motive power.

When I ran out of gas, fortunately I managed to coast into a nearby gas station.

6. v. (intransitive, nautical) To sail along a coast.

7. v. Applied to human behavior, to make a minimal effort, to continue to do something in a routine way. This implies lack of initiative and effort.

8. v. (obsolete) To draw near to; to approach; to keep near, or by the side of.

9. v. (obsolete) To sail by or near; to follow the coastline of.

10. v. (obsolete) To conduct along a coast or river bank.

11. v. (US, dialect) To slide downhill; to slide on a sled upon snow or ice.

Nederlands > Engels

kust

1. n-f. (topics, Landforms) The shoreline

2. n-f. The coast, seaside

3. n-f. A coastal region

4. n-f. (obsolete, figuratively) A border, seem, edge, fringe etc.

5. n-m. (obsolete) a choice, chosing

6. n-m. (obsolete) something chosen

7. v. plural imperative of kussen

Uitspraak

Voorbeeldzinnen

I guess I'll go over to the coast.
Over the next days, more packets of cocaine and two decomposed bodies appeared along the coast.
The camp, on the Baltic coast, is run by an evangelical charity, but the course is funded by the German social security services and the children are from all denominations.
Some of the most expensive crops are grown indoors on the west coast using advanced scientific techniques but the American heartlands account for the largest volume.
However, the government's budget for railway projects has come under pressure from cost overruns on the modernisation of the west coast mainline.

Vorige woorden herzien

ruler	sixty-four	glider	sauce
eight	stationery	sixty-nine	anaesthetic
fence	cable car	bark	wave
minute	skin	February	ambulance

Willekeurig

pliers	muscle	crowd	field
hand	Thursday	sheet	pill
toilet	air pump	singer	can
run	bed	seventy-seven	cheek

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