coast

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /kəʊst/    美 /koʊst/|/kəʉst/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The edge of the land where it meets an ocean, sea, gulf, bay, or large lake.
    — The rocky coast of Maine has few beaches.
  2. The side or edge of something. obsolete
    — And the Coaſt towards which the lines KL and VX are drawn, may be call’d the Coaſt of unuſual Refraction.
  3. A region of land; a district or country. obsolete
    — Then Herod perceavynge that he was moocked off the wyse men, was excedynge wroth, and sent forth and slue all the chyldren that were in bethleem, and in all the costes thereof […]
  4. A region of the air or heavens. obsolete
    — the learned Merlin, well could tell, / Vnder what coast of heauen the man did dwell […]
动词 v.
  1. To glide along without adding energy; to allow a vehicle to continue moving forward after disengaging the engine or ceasing to apply motive power. intransitive
    — When I ran out of gas, fortunately I managed to coast into a nearby gas station.
  2. To sail along a coast. intransitive
    — The Ancients coasted only in their Navigations.
  3. To make a minimal effort; to continue to do something in a routine way, without initiative or effort. figuratively,intransitive
    — Yet the truth is that City would probably have been coasting by that point if the referee, Michael Oliver, had not turned down three separate penalties, at least two of which could be accurately described as certainties.
  4. To draw near to; to approach; to keep near, or by the side of. intransitive,obsolete
    — Anon she hears them chant it lustily, / And all in haste she coasteth to the cry.
  5. To sail by or near; to follow the coastline of. obsolete,transitive
    — Nearchus, […] not knowing the compass, was fain to coast that shore.
  6. To conduct along a coast or river bank. obsolete,transitive
    — The Indians […] coasted me a long the river.
  7. To slide downhill; to slide on a sled upon snow or ice. Canada,US,dialectal

词形变化

coasts plural coasts present,singular,third-person coasting participle,present coasted participle,past coasted past

词汇关系

衍生词
Acadian Coast Bass Coast Cape Coast Cassowary Coast Central Coast Coast coastal coastbound coasteering coaster Coast Guard coastguard coast guarder coastguarding coastland coastless coastline coast live oak Coast Salish coast spurge coast-to-coast coast to coast Coast Tsimshian coast waiter coastward coastwards coastwatcher coastwatching coastwide coastwise discoast downcoast East Coast Fraser Coast Fresh Coast Gold Coast Gulf Coast Ivory Coast Kapiti Coast left coast Limestone Coast Mediterranean coast fever Mexican west coast rattlesnake MidCoast Mid North Coast North Coast palaeocoast Palm Coast seacoast Silicon Valley of the East Coast Suncoast Sunshine Coast surfcoast Surf Coast Third Coast Trucial Coast Turquoise Coast upcoast West Coast West Coast Sound
相关词
coast fox coast guard coast rat the coast is clear

词源

词源 1
From Middle English coste (“rib; side of the body”), from Old French coste (“rib; side of an object; coast”) (modern French côte (“rib; coast; hill, slope”)), from Latin costa (“rib; side, wall”). Doublet of costa.
Compare typologically cape < Latin caput, ness (akin to nose), Bulgarian нос (nos, “nose; …; cape, promontory, foreland, gore”), Macedonian ’рт (’rt), Serbo-Croatian рт (“cape, promontory, headland”) < Proto-Slavic *rъtъ (whence Russian рот (rot)).
词源 2
Etymology tree
Latin costa
Latin costicāreder.
Old French costoierbor.
Middle English costeien
English coast
From Middle English costeien (“to travel along a border or coast; to go alongside (something), skirt; to accompany, follow; to travel across, traverse; to be adjacent to, to border;”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman [Term?], Old French costoier (“to be at the side of”) […] (modern French côtoyer (“to pass alongside; (figuratively) to rub shoulders”)), from Latin costicāre, from Latin costa (“rib; side, wall”); see further at etymology 1.
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