Inland vs Inshore - What's the difference?
inland | inshore |
Within the land; more or less remote from the ocean or from open water; interior; as, an inland town.
:* This wide inland sea. .
:* From inland regions to the distant main. .
Limited to the land, or to inland routes; within the seashore boundary; not passing on, or over, the sea; as, inland transportation, commerce, navigation, etc.
Confined to a country or state; domestic; not foreign; as, an inland bill of exchange.
The interior part of a country. Shakespeare
Into, or towards, the interior, away from the coast. Cook .
:* The greatest waves of population have rolled inland from the east. .
Close to (especially in sight of) a shore.
*1875 , William Henley, :
*:The sunset's roses faint and fain decline.
*:Inshore the still sea shimmers scale on scale,
*:Like an enormous coat of magic mail —
*:Sheet silver shot with tremulous opaline.
*, chapter=3
, title= (of a wind) Blowing from the sea to the land.
As adjectives the difference between inland and inshore
is that inland is within the land; more or less remote from the ocean or from open water; interior; as, an inland town while inshore is close to (especially in sight of) a shore.As adverbs the difference between inland and inshore
is that inland is into, or towards, the interior, away from the coast. Cook while inshore is near the shore.As a noun inland
is the interior part of a country. Shakespeareinland
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(en adjective)Noun
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(en adverb)inshore
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(en adjective)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.}}
