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  • Shore — steht für den Werkstoffkennwert Shore Härte, siehe Härte#Härteprüfung nach Shore die Droge Heroin Shore oder Schore ist der Familienname folgender Personen: Allan N. Schore (* 1943), US amerikanischer Psychologe Daryl Shore (* 1970), US… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Shore — Shore, n. [OE. schore, AS. score, probably fr. scieran, and so meaning properly, that which is shorn off, edge; akin to OD. schoore, schoor. See {Shear}, v. t.] The coast or land adjacent to a large body of water, as an ocean, lake, or large… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • shore — n Shore, coast, beach, strand, bank, littoral, foreshore are comparable when they mean land bordering a body or stream of water. Shore is the general word for the land immediately bordering on the sea, a lake, or a large stream. Coast denotes the …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • shore — Ⅰ. shore [1] ► NOUN 1) the land along the edge of a sea, lake, etc. 2) (also shores) literary a country or other geographic area bounded by a coast: distant shores. ● in shore Cf. ↑in shore ● …   English terms dictionary

  • Shore — Shore, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Shored}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Shoring}.] [OE. schoren. See {Shore} a prop.] To support by a shore or shores; to prop; usually with up; as, to shore up a building. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Shore — Shore, v. t. To set on shore. [Obs.] Shak. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • shore — [ʆɔː ǁ ʆɔːr] verb shore something → up phrasal verb [transitive] to help a system or organization that is likely to fail or is not working well: • The company was shored up by an emergency infusion of cash from its main bank …   Financial and business terms

  • shore up — (something) to make something stronger by supporting it. Part of the roof collapsed, and emergency workers had to shore up walls to prevent further damage. Central banks try to shore the economy up by lowering interest rates …   New idioms dictionary

  • shore — shore1 [shôr] n. [ME schore < OE * score (akin to MLowG schore) < or akin to scorian, to jut out < IE base * (s)ker , to cut > HARVEST] 1. land at or near the edge of a body of water, esp. along an ocean, large lake, etc. 2. land as… …   English World dictionary

  • Shore — Shore, n. A sewer. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Shore — Shore, n. [OE. schore; akin to LG. schore, D. schoor, OD. schoore, Icel. skor?a, and perhaps to E. shear, as being a piece cut off.] A prop, as a timber, placed as a brace or support against the side of a building or other structure; a prop… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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