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beach
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n.
a pebbly or sandy shore, esp. by the ocean between high- and low-water marks.
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v. [tr.]
run or haul up (a boat or ship) onto a beach:
at the water's edge a rowboat was beached
[intr.]
crews would not beach for fear of damaging craft.
∎ [often as adj.] (beached)
cause (a whale or similar animal) to become stranded out of the water.
∎ [intr.]
(of a whale or similar animal) become stranded out of the water.
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(of an angler) land (a fish) on a beach.
∎ fig.
cause (someone) to suffer a loss:
competitive procurement seems to have beached several companies.
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THE BEACHES
Newspaper article from: The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA; 5/21/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Always check posted beach regulations. For information on beaches listed below without...Quincy neighborhood beaches Avalon Beach has a children...and stony swimming beach between North Scituate and Sand Hills beaches. Pedestrian access...
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Beaches in California, Delaware, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Virginia Named Among Nation's Cleanest and Safest
Newspaper article from: U.S. Newswire; 5/19/2000; 700+ words
; ...this upcoming summer beach season. Through...Campaign, the Clean Beaches Council certifies...plan to visit a beach. America's top tourist destination, beaches generate more than...Seashore N. Gunnison Beach, Sandy Hook National Seashore Lot Beaches (B-E), Sandy...
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Beaches get seal of approval for safety
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 5/27/2001; 700+ words
; ...Virginia and Delaware. The Wisconsin beaches were Julian Bay Beach, Little Sand Bay Beach and Meyers Beach...National Lakeshore. New Jersey: North Beach, N. Gunnison Beach and Lot Beaches (B-E), all Sandy Hook National Seashore...
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Beach Solutions Extends ARM Support with AMBA 2 Interconnect Generators and SPIRIT PrimeCell Views.
Business Wire; 3/8/2005; 700+ words
; ...Complex AMBA Methodology-Based Embedded Designs Beach Solutions, the ESL Synthesis company, today announced...PrimeCell(R) peripheral meta-views in both Beach and SPIRIT1.0 format. Beach's Interconnect generators for AMBA 2 interfaces...
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 "Daily News (NY, NY)")
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Beaches open? Cool.
Newspaper article from: Daily News (NY, NY); 5/27/2005; 700+ words
; ...strongest riptide of city beaches Jacob Riis Park Beach (Part of Gateway National...Beach Wolfe's Pond Beach South and Midland beaches in particularly good...from Jamaica. Jones Beach Granddaddy of Long Island beaches stretches 6-1/2...
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 "Lake Zurich Courier (IL)")
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Beaches provide relief from summer's hot sun
Newspaper article from: Lake Zurich Courier (IL); 6/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...hand. AREA NEWS Public beaches on Lake Zurich and Island...while Wauconda's beach on Bang's Lake will open this weekend. The beaches are considered natural...maintain them. Each beach must be cared for by the village that uses it. Beaches on all three lakes...
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 "Destin Log (Destin, FL)")
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Beaches as safe as ever, officials say: n Warm weather draws crowds to beaches.
Newspaper article from: Destin Log (Destin, FL); 3/14/2007; 700+ words
; ...there's been an increased emphasis of beach safety since June 8, 2003, when eight people drowned on local beaches. Since then, Joe D'Agostino, Destin beach safety chief, said beaches on the Emerald Coast are safer than...
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Beach Erosion, Grain by Sandy Grain
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 6/7/1988; ; 700+ words
; ...into deep water. At the beach, the sand you walk in...powerful currents. The beaches Washington-area residents...do something about the beach erosion. It has launched...to save the resort's beaches. To undo the destructive...pumping it back onto the beach. Large ships called...
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 "The Capital Times (Madison, WI)")
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BEACHES FACE A LONG, WEEDY SUMMER LIFEGUARDS TO START SOON AT SMELLY SITES.(METRO)
Newspaper article from: The Capital Times (Madison, WI); 6/11/2007; ; 616 words
; ...Capital Times Madison beaches officially will open this weekend, but beach users should be prepared...The city posts beach conditions on its...cityofmadison.com/beaches. Lifeguards will...attendance at the beach might prompt the...close some of its 15 beaches eventually, ...
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Beaches called dirtier than ever
Newspaper article from: Maryland Gazette; 8/8/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...missed out on 317 beach days due to closings...including 35 days when beaches at Sandy Point...Two Maryland beaches made the NRDC's list of "beach bums" for having...like to see more beaches tested, more...to know that a beach was safe or unsafe...
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Beach nourishment
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...necessarily mean that beaches will vanish. Beach nourishment is much...surveys for use in beach modeling. Nourishment...few years to keep beaches from retreating...Proponents of beach nourishment would argue that restored beaches might draw more...
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Beaches
Book article from: Water:Science and Issues
Beaches A beach is a dynamic environment...Storms and Beaches Beaches can have different...wash sand onto the beach, increasing the size...causing extreme beach destruction and occasionally...Barrier islands and all beaches are highly fluid and...
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beaches
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Earth
beaches Beaches consist of accumulations...shoreline. The form of a beach is largely controlled by...water tends to sink into the beach and hence there is little...In contrast, on sandy beaches percolation is limited...
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beach
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...sediment making up a beach is supplied by rivers...adjacent to the coast. Beaches extend from a low waterline...dispensing their energy on the beach. Beaches undergo a cyclical migration of sand between the beach and the offshore zone...
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Amy Beach
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Amy Beach The best known woman composer of her time period and the first in the United States, Amy Beach (1867-1944) did not just create small...5, 1867, in Henniker, New Hampshire, Beach was the only child of Charles Abbor Cheney...
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