Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A projecting landmass; a promontory.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A promontory or cape; a point of land extending into the water some distance from the line of the shore; a headland: as, the North and South Foreland in Kent, England.
- noun In fortification, a piece of ground between the wall of a place and the moat.
- noun The portion of the shore usually left outside of a protecting dike or embankment for the purpose of breaking the force of the waves.
- noun In physical geography, low alluvial land added to the coast of the mainland by the action of the sea or of streams.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A promontory or cape; a headland.
- noun (Fort.) A piece of ground between the wall of a place and the moat.
- noun (Hydraul. Engin.) That portion of the natural shore on the outside of the embankment which receives the stock of waves and deadens their force.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
headland . - noun geology In
plate tectonics , the zone adjacent to amountain chain where materialeroded from it isdeposited .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun land forming the forward margin of something
- noun a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea)
Etymologies
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Examples
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S.W. side of Prince of Wales's Foreland, another inlet into Royal Sound; and it then appeared, that the foreland was the E. point of a large island lying in the mouth of it.
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And this is the furthest place that this yeere we haue entred vp within the streits, and is reckoned from the Cape of the Queenes foreland, which is the entrance of the streites not aboue 30 leagues.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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It recently obtained a 51 percent working interest in four hydrocarbon prospecting licenses in the "foreland" area of Papua New
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Sasol Petroleum International (SPI) has obtained a 51 percent working interest in four hydrocarbon prospecting licences covering a land area of 37,000 square kilometres, close to established gas fields in the "foreland" area of Papua New Guinea.
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As for the sediments themselves, they are pretty much what we would expect to see in a terrestrial foreland basin.
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He could see three cottages, a pair about a hundred yards from the Grange and a third standing alone higher on the foreland.
She Closed Her Eyes 2010
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They are not very much different from the sediments we can observe in the currently active foreland basin associated with the Andes.
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As for the sediments themselves, they are pretty much what we would expect to see in a terrestrial foreland basin.
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They are not very much different from the sediments we can observe in the currently active foreland basin associated with the Andes.
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Lichens/Lichenes of the Bialowieza Forest and its western foreland.
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