| 单词 | landfall |
| 释义 | landfall (once / 15760 pages) n Landfall is the first glimpse of land when you're on a boat. It can also mean the moment your boat touches the shore, like when your kayak makes landfall on a remote island. If you're traveling at sea, arriving at your destination is landfall. A child paddling a rowboat across a pond makes landfall when she reaches the far shore, and the captain of an ocean liner makes landfall at each remote stop on the route. A sailor might call out, "Landfall!" at the first sight of land on the horizon. The word landfall uses the sense of fall that means "happen." WORD FAMILYlandfall: landfalls USAGE EXAMPLESEleven officers pleaded guilty to charges related to deadly shootings on a bridge less than a week after Katrina’s landfall. Washington Times(Dec 19, 2016) Rain began battering the densely populated coast ahead of the storm's landfall. Reuters(Dec 12, 2016) A number of people are dead or missing in Costa Rica after Hurricane Otto made landfall as a Category Two storm. BBC(Nov 25, 2016) 1n the seacoast first sighted on a voyage (or flight over water) Hyper coast, sea-coast, seacoast, seashore the shore of a sea or ocean 2n the first sighting of land from the sea after a voyage (or flight over water) Hyper sighting the act of observing |
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