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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | support; place for boats |
| Synonyms: | berth, buttress, column, dam, dock, jetty, landing, levee, mole, pierage, pilaster, pile, piling, pillar, post, promenade, quay, slip, upright, wharf |
| Notes: | a dock is the water next to a wharf or pier and it is not a solid thing, a wharf is built along and parallel to the shore, while a pier runs out and away from or at a right angle to the shore; dock was first a 'natural hollow or creek where a ship could stay at low water' |
| Main Entry: | buttress |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | brace, support |
| Synonyms: | abutment, column, mainstay, pier, prop, reinforcement, shore, stanchion, stay, strut, underpinning |
| Main Entry: | column |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pillar |
| Synonyms: | brace, buttress, caryatid, colonnade, cylinder, mast, minaret, monolith, monument, obelisk, pedestal, peristyle, pier, pilaster, post, prop, pylon, shaft, standard, stay, stele, support, totem, tower, underpinning, upright |
Example Sentences
- STspouse has a framed print of a photo of three pelicans on a pier over the water.
- The absence of light gives the pier a ghostly appearance.
- Already, a first floating pier has arrived, along with heavy cranes.
| Main Entry: | dock |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | waterfront |
| Synonyms: | berth, embarkment, harbor, jetty, landing, landing pier, levee, lock, marina, pier, quay, slip, wharf |
| Notes: | a dock is the water next to a wharf or pier and it is not a solid thing, a wharf is built along and parallel to the shore, while a pier runs out and away from or at a right angle to the shore; dock was first a 'natural hollow or creek where a ship could stay at low water' |
| Main Entry: | feasible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | possible, doable |
| Synonyms: | achievable, advantageous, appropriate, attainable, beneficial, breeze, cinch, duck soup, easy as pie, expedient, fit, fitting, likely, no sweat, performable, pie, piece of cake, practicable, practical, probable, profitable, pushover, realizable, reasonable, simple as ABC, snap, suitable, viable, workable, worthwhile |
| Antonyms: | impossible, inconceivable, unfeasible, unlikely, unpractical, unreasonable |
| Main Entry: | foot |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | base of an object |
| Synonyms: | bottom, foundation, lowest point, nadir, pier |
| Antonyms: | lid, top |
| Main Entry: | harbor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | place for storing boats in the water |
| Synonyms: | anchorage, arm, bay, bight, breakwater, chuck, cove, dock, embankment, firth, gulf, haven, inlet, jetty, landing, mooring, pier, port, road, roadstead, wharf |
| Main Entry: | landing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | harbor |
| Synonyms: | anchorage, berth, dock, jetty, landing place, marina, pier, platform, quay, slip, wharf |
| Main Entry: | marina |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dock |
| Synonyms: | berth, boat basin, boatyard, harbor, landing, moorings, pier, port, quay, slip, wharf |
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