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Onshore vs Inshore - What's the difference?

onshore | inshore |

As adjectives the difference between onshore and inshore

is that onshore is moving from the sea towards the land while inshore is close to (especially in sight of) a shore.

As adverbs the difference between onshore and inshore

is that onshore is from the sea towards the land while inshore is near the shore.

As a verb onshore

is to relocate production, services or jobs to lower-cost locations in the same country.

onshore

English

Alternative forms

* on-shore

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • moving from the sea towards the land
  • positioned on or near the shore
  • Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • from the sea towards the land
  • Verb

    (onshor)
  • (management) To relocate production, services or jobs to lower-cost locations in the same country.
  • See also

    * noshore * offshore

    Anagrams

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    inshore

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • 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= 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.}}
  • (of a wind) Blowing from the sea to the land.
  • Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Near the shore
  • Towards the shore
  • See also

    * deep-sea * offshore * insure * ensure