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Shoreward vs Storeward - What's the difference?

shoreward | storeward |

As adverbs the difference between shoreward and storeward

is that shoreward is toward the shore while storeward is toward a store.

As an adjective shoreward

is in the direction of the shoreline, relatively speaking.

shoreward

English

Adjective

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  • In the direction of the shoreline, relatively speaking.
  • * 1903: Jack London, The Call of the Wild [http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=447247512&tag=London,+Jack:+The+Call+of+the+Wild,+1903&query=+shoreward&id=LonCall]
    • When he felt him grasp his tail, Buck headed for the bank, swimming with all his splendid strength. But the progress shoreward was slow; the progress down-stream amazingly rapid.
  • which faces the shore
  • * 1905: Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses [http://books.google.com/books?vid=LCCN05024183&id=QcNXAd9cPyoC&pg=PA190&lpg=PA190&dq=shoreward&as_brr=1]
    • If their enemies were really on the watch, if they had beleaguered the shoreward end of the pier, he and Lord Foxham were taken in a posture of poor defense...

    Adverb

    (-)
  • toward the shore
  • * 18??: Alfred Tennyson, The Lotos-Eaters [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Lotos-Eaters]
  • *:"Courage!" he said, and pointed toward the land,
  • *:"This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon."

    • storeward

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • toward a store