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English term or phrase:
bathed
English answer:
washed
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Silvia Calderón (X)
Sep 21, 2005 21:51
18 yrs ago
English term
bathed
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Marketing
Tourism & Travel
¿Is it ok to say "... coast bathed by the water of a lake ..."? I mean, ¿does it sound natural?
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Sep 22, 2005 03:45: Kim Metzger changed "Field" from "Other" to "Marketing" , "Field (specific)" from "Other" to "Tourism & Travel"
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washed
shore washed by the waters of a lake
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Comment: "Thanks a lot."
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water lapping at the lakeside
Not really, but more because the coast would be bathed by the sea. The 'lakeside' could be 'bathed by the water' if you want to wax poetic, Otherwise maybe the standard 'water lapping the at the lakeside' would have to do.
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Cristina Hritcu (X)
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unnatural
I don't think this sounds natural, for 2 reasons:
1. can a coast be bathed at all? Bathing in this sense is to be immersed (?) in water. One can bathe in the sun (sunbathe).
2. perhaps someone can confirm this, but is the bank (?) of a lake known as a coast? Or have I misunderstood?
Sorry I can't offer you an alternative, not feeling very bright at this late hour!
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and I wouldn't say "water of a lake" either.
"...the waters of a lake lapping on the coast..." ???
I'm not sure about this...
1. can a coast be bathed at all? Bathing in this sense is to be immersed (?) in water. One can bathe in the sun (sunbathe).
2. perhaps someone can confirm this, but is the bank (?) of a lake known as a coast? Or have I misunderstood?
Sorry I can't offer you an alternative, not feeling very bright at this late hour!
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and I wouldn't say "water of a lake" either.
"...the waters of a lake lapping on the coast..." ???
I'm not sure about this...
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Ivana UK
: I agree that "bathed" sounds unnatural = whether you use coast or bank +that waters is better than water
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Freimanis
: yes very unnatural. I have heard of a cost kissed by the sea by not by a lake.
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Johan Venter
: Absolutely
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RHELLER
: how about "lake waters" but you are right, lake does not go with coast
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bathed is OK....
...but 'coast' isn't. A coast is the region of a relatively large land mass next to the sea (an ocean), but the region where the water 'overlaps' the land is a shore (regardless of the size of the land or body of water). In any case, IMO the boundary between land and a lake would rarely if ever be called a coast (except perhaps with a very large lake, such as one of the US Great Lakes), but in any case a coast is part of the land.
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Kim Metzger
: Shoreline maybe.
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Michael Barnett
: Absolutely correct regarding *coast*. *Bathed* is somewhat poetic and implies that the shore is periodically immersed with water as by waves, leaving it clean, rather than coated with disgusting foul scum! ;-)
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Lori Dendy-Molz
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jennifer newsome (X)
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RHELLER
: right! shore not coast (even on Lake Michigan)
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shore caressed by the lake water; lake water lapping at the shore
our colleagues are correct that lakes do not have a coast... they have a lakeshore...
also, one thinks of something being bathed in sunlight, not in lake water... odd as that may be... if the shore were bathed in lake water, it would be flooded....
also, one thinks of something being bathed in sunlight, not in lake water... odd as that may be... if the shore were bathed in lake water, it would be flooded....
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Bianca Jacobsohn
: For a poetic solution, I quite like "shore caressed..." but "by the waters of a lake"
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thanks, yes, by the waters of the lake is much nicer
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Michael Deliso
: agree, the term bathed in Italian would be "Lambite"
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RHELLER
: caressed is lovely
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thanks very much.... caresses are always nice, aren't they (vbg...)
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