coast

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural

coasts

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1)

coast

past (v2)

coasted

past participle (v3)

coasted

present participle

coasting

3rd person singular

coasts

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 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.
   • It'd be roughly on par with 2003's Bouchard No. 120 oil spill, in which an estimated 98,000 gallons spilled into Buzzards Bay off the coast of Bourne, Massachusetts.

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

1. 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.

   • When I ran out of gas, fortunately I managed to coast into a nearby gas station.
   • We steamed easily across the first part of the Tay Bridge, and then after passing over the long spans in mid-stream we coasted smoothly down the 1 in 114 gradient, and around the sweeping curve through Esplanade Station.

2. 2.To make a minimal effort; to continue to do something in a routine way, without initiative or effort.

   • 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.

3. 3.To sail along a coast.

   • The Ancients coasted only in their Navigations.

Overall

Common· #1728

By learning goal

Everyday conversation

Uncommon

General reading & writing

Common

Academic

Rare

Literature

Rare

Word family

• coastal