<B>shopwindow, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a window of a shop or store in which goods are displayed for sale; show window. </DL>
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<B>shopwoman, </B>noun, pl. <B>-women.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a woman who works in a shop or store; shopgirl. </DL>
<A NAME="shopworker">
<B>shopworker, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who works in a shop or workshop. </DL>
<A NAME="shopworn">
<B>shopworn, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>soiled or frayed by being displayed and handled in a shop or store. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) old and worn; threadbare. <BR> <I>Ex. After all these years and books, another factual account of the crucial European battles of World War II may sound like pretty shopworn fare (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
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<B>shoran, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a method of navigation in which radar signals are sent out from a craft to two ground stations and retransmitted by the stations. The time interval between sending and receiving the signals is used to determine the craft's exact position. </DL>
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<B>shore</B> (1), noun, verb, <B>shored,</B> <B>shoring.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>land at the edge of a sea, lake, river, or other body of water. <BR> <I>Ex. The [Mississippi] River cuts at the shores to give itself man-size room; past Memphis and Vicksburg and New Orleans (Newsweek).</I> (SYN) strand. <DD><B> 2. </B>land near a sea; coast. <BR> <I>Ex. I have seen the kingly ocean gain advantage on the kingdom of the shore (Shakespeare).</I> (SYN) seaboard. <DD><B> 3. </B>the land (as contrasted with the sea). <BR> <I>Ex. Our marines serve on both the sea and the shore.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>(Law.) the ground lying between the ordinary high-water and low-water marks; foreshore. <DD><B> 5. </B>(U.S.) the seashore as a place of vacation resort. <BR> <I>Ex. to go to the shore for the summer.</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> to put or set ashore. <BR> <I>Ex. The boat was temporarily shored on the each (J. Spence).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>in shore,</B> </I>in or on the water, but near to the shore or nearer to the shore. <BR> <I>Ex. Steer in shore of them (Frederick Marryat).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>off shore,</B> </I>in or on the water, but not far from the shore. <BR> <I>Ex. The yacht was anchored off shore opposite Sandy Point.</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>shores,</B> </I>land. <BR> <I>Ex. As one who long detain'd on foreign shores pants to return (William Cowper).</I> </DL>
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<B>shore</B> (2), noun, verb, <B>shored,</B> <B>shoring.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a prop placed against or beneath something to support it; strut. <DD><I>v.t. </I> Usually, <B>shore up.</B> to prop up or support with shores. <BR> <I>Ex. We laid the ship aground ... and shored her up on each side (Daniel Defoe). The hydraulic mechanism also has been shored up by inserting metal filters in place of paper ones (Wall Street Journal). (Figurative.) The Europeans have been helping shore up the dollar (Harper's).</I> </DL>
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<B>shore</B> (3), verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Archaic.) a past tense of <B>shear.</B> </DL>
<B>shore-based, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having its base of operations on or near the shore; land-based. <BR> <I>Ex. shore-based radar.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="shorebird">
<B>shore bird,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any bird that frequents the shores of seas, inlets, lakes, or other bodies of water. Plovers, snipes, and sandpipers are shore birds. </DL>
<A NAME="shorecrab">
<B>shore crab,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the green crab of Europe and the Atlantic coast of America. </DL>
<A NAME="shoredinner">
<B>shore dinner,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) a dinner featuring various seafoods. </DL>
<A NAME="shorefast">
<B>shore fast,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the length of cable which secures a ship to the dock; hawser. </DL>
<A NAME="shorefront">
<B>shorefront, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> the area near to or on a shore; an oceanfront, lakefront, riverfront, or the like. <DD><I>adj. </I> of a shorefront; fronting a shore. <BR> <I>Ex. shorefront hotels in a seaside resort, a shorefront park.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="shoregoing">
<B>shore-going, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> the act or fact of going, staying, or living on shore. <DD><I>adj. </I> going or living on shore; having to do with life on shore. </DL>
<A NAME="shoreleave">
<B>shore leave,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> leave for a member or members of a ship's crew to go ashore. <BR> <I>Ex. Though we made two ports in Australia, no shore leave was granted (Harper's).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="shoreless">
<B>shoreless, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>having no shore; having no low land adjacent to the water. <BR> <I>Ex. a rocky, shoreless island.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) boundless. <BR> <I>Ex. He was adrift on the shoreless tides of delirium (Rudyard Kipling).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="shoreline">
<B>shoreline, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the line where shore and water meet. <BR> <I>Ex. The lake has several miles of shoreline.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="shorepatrol">
<B>shore patrol,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a detail or detachment of two or more enlisted men of the United States Navy or Coast Guard assigned to maintain order among personnel of their own branch of the service while ashore, as in a particular city or district. </DL>
<A NAME="shorepatrol">
<B>Shore Patrol,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the policing branch of the United States Navy and Coast Guard, as a distinct division of the service. (Abbr:) SP (no periods), S.P. </DL>
<A NAME="shorer">
<B>shorer, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person whose work it is to prop up structures, as during construction operations. <DD><B> 2. </B>something that shores; a prop. </DL>
<A NAME="shores">
<B>shores, </B>noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> See under <B>shore</B> (1). </DL>
<A NAME="shorescape">
<B>shorescape, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a view of scenery on a shore. <BR> <I>Ex. Morning showed shorescapes of a most inviting aspect; fields ... thick forests ... with ash trees at the riverbanks (Wall Street Journal).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a picture or painting showing a scene on a shore. </DL>
<A NAME="shoreside">
<B>shoreside, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> of, on, or toward the shore; along the shore. <DD><I>noun </I> the land along the shore. </DL>
<A NAME="shorewall">
<B>shore wall,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an accumulation of sand and gravel pushed up into mounds by the expansion and contraction of ice formed on rivers or lakes. </DL>
<A NAME="shoreward">
<B>shoreward, </B>adverb, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> toward the shore. <BR> <I>Ex. The winds blew shoreward (adv.). We felt the shoreward breeze (adj.).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="shorewards">
<B>shorewards, </B>adverb. =shoreward.</DL>
<A NAME="shoring">
<B>shoring, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a system of shores or props, as for supporting a building, ship, or dock. <DD><B> 2. </B>the act of building or providing with shores. </DL>
<A NAME="shorn">
<B>shorn, </B>verb, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>verb </I> a past participle of <B>shear.</B> <BR> <I>Ex. The sheep was shorn of its wool.</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>sheared. <BR> <I>Ex. Early in the period choice 102-pound shorn lambs sold for $21.50 (Wall Street Journal).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) deprived. <BR> <I>Ex. a man newly shorn of his wealth.</I> </DL>
