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Coastline vs Seabank - What's the difference?

coastline | seabank |

As nouns the difference between coastline and seabank

is that coastline is the shape, outline, or boundary of a coast while seabank is a bank or mole to defend against the sea.

coastline

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The shape, outline, or boundary of a coast.
  • * Episode 12
    • Tarbarrels and bonfires were lighted along the coastline of the four seas on the summits of the Hill of Howth, Three Rock Mountain, Sugarloaf, Bray Head, the mountains of Mourne, the Galtees, the Ox and Donegal and Sperrin peaks, the Nagles and the Bograghs, the Connemara hills, the reeks of M’Gillicuddy, Slieve Aughty, Slieve Bernagh and Slieve Bloom.

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    seabank

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A bank or mole to defend against the sea.
    • (Charles Kingsley)
  • * 2009 , Peter Murphy, The English Coast: A History and a Prospect (page 55)
    • Typically, aerial photography of areas of seabanks shows a complex pattern of banks and counter-walls