English Dictionary

beach

/bit͡ʃ/

noun

The shore of a body of water, especially when sandy or pebbly. / A horizontal strip of land, usually sandy, adjoining water.

I love spending my weekends at the beach.

意味（1）

The shore of a body of water, especially when sandy or pebbly.

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.

意味（2）

A horizontal strip of land, usually sandy, adjoining water.

Up and down, the beach lay empty for miles.

意味（3）

(UK dialectal, Sussex, Kent) The loose pebbles of the seashore, especially worn by waves; shingle.

意味（4）

(motorsports, euphemistic) Synonym of gravel trap

意味（5）

(sports) A dry, dusty pitch or situation, as though playing on sand.

I never realised Lincoln was a seaside town. BRIAN LAWS Scunthorpe manager, after losing on a liberally sanded beach of a pitch