beach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /biːt͡ʃ/
ipa: /bit͡ʃ/
rhymes: -iːtʃ
homophone: beech
Forms: form: beaches
Etymology: From Middle English bache, bæcche (“bank, sandbank”), from Old English beċe (“beck, brook, stream”), from Proto-West Germanic *baki, from Proto-Germanic *bakiz (“brook”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- (“flowing water”).
Cognate with Dutch beek (“brook, stream”), German Bach (“brook, stream”), Swedish bäck (“stream, brook, creek”). More at batch, beck.
Senses: examples: text: Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path[…]. It twisted and turned,[…]and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn. And, back of the lawn, was a big, old-fashioned house, with piazzas stretching in front of it, and all blazing with lights. 'Twas the house I'd seen the roof of from the beach.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: The shore of a body of water, especially when sandy or pebbly.
examples: text: Up and down, the beach lay empty for miles.
ref: 1988, Robert Ferro, Second Son:
glosses: A horizontal strip of land, usually sandy, adjoining water.
qualifier: Sussex
glosses: The loose pebbles of the seashore, especially worn by waves; shingle.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
glosses: Synonym of gravel trap.
synonyms: word: gravel trap
examples: text: I never realised Lincoln was a seaside town. BRIAN LAWS Scunthorpe manager, after losing on a liberally sanded beach of a pitch
ref: 2008, Phil Shaw, The Book of Football Quotations, page 415:
text: The series was brought to an ironic conclusion when England became hoist by their own petard, as they lost the deciding final Test on a 'beach' of a wicket. Neither side batted well.
ref: 2012, Tim Quelch, Bent Arms & Dodgy Wickets:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A dry, dusty pitch or situation, as though playing on sand.
examples: text: That beach should be punished!
glosses: Euphemistic form of bitch (taboo swear word).
Synonyms: sense: horizontal strip of land adjoining water
word: backshore
sense: horizontal strip of land adjoining water
word: sand
sense: horizontal strip of land adjoining water
word: strand
Derived terms: Arizona's beach
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Northern Beaches
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Omaha Beach
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Panama City Beach
Pilning and Severn Beach
Pismo Beach
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rebeach
Red Beach
Revere Beach
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Sand Beach
Sandbeach
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South Beach Diet
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Utah Beach
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Virginia Beach
West Beach
White Beach