shore
1. the land along the edge of a body of water (Freq. 18)
• Topics:
lake, ocean, river
• Hypernyms:
geological formation, formation
• Hyponyms:
lakeside, lakeshore, seashore, coast, seacoast,
sea-coast, strand
• Part Meronyms:
beach, shoreline
2. a beam or timber that is propped against a structure to provide support
• Syn:
shoring
• Hypernyms:
beam
1. serve as a shore to
- The river was shored by trees
• Hypernyms:
bound, border
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s something
2. support by placing against something solid or rigid
- shore and buttress an old building
• Syn:
prop up, prop, shore up
• Derivationally related forms:
shoring, shoring up (for: shore up), prop (for: prop)
• Hypernyms:
hold, support, sustain, hold up
• Hyponyms:
bolster
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s something PP
3. arrive on shore
- The ship landed in Pearl Harbor
• Syn:
land, set ashore
• Derivationally related forms:
land (for: land), landing (for: land)
• Hypernyms:
arrive, get, come
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
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