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Definition: COAST GUARD |
COAST GUARD1. (a) A body of men originally employed along the coast to prevent smuggling; now, under the control of the admiralty, drilled as a naval reserve. [Eng.] (b) The force employed in life-saving stations along the seacoast. [U. S.] |
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Coast guards also enforce maritime law, maintain aids to navigation such as beacons and buoys, and provide other services for the benefit of mariners. Most coast guards are run on military lines and serve as an auxiliary to the national navy. During wartime coast guards are responsible for harbor defense, port security, naval counterintelligence and coastal patrols.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Coast Guard."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Keeper | Noun: keeper, custodian, custos, ranger, warder, jailer, gaoler, turnkey, castellan, guard; watchdog, watchman; Charley; chokidar, durwan, hayward; sentry, sentinel; watch and ward; concierge, coast guard, guarda costa, game keeper. |
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Crosswords: COAST GUARD |
| English words defined with "COAST GUARD": ensign ♦ lieutenant, lieutenant JG, lieutenant junior grade. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "COAST GUARD": barge captain ♦ CADET, DECK, crews of vessels, CUSTOMS BROKER, customs-house broker ♦ DECK ENGINEER, DERRICK-BOAT CAPTAIN, derrick-boat runner, DREDGE CAPTAIN, DREDGE MATE, dredge operator, dredge runner ♦ FERRYBOAT CAPTAIN, FIRER, MARINE, fishing captain ♦ MAINTENANCE MECHANIC, ENGINE, maritime/military vessel enumeration, MASTER, PASSENGER BARGE, MASTER, RIVERBOAT, MATE, FISHING VESSEL, military enumeration ♦ Oligotrophic Lakes ♦ RADIO OFFICER, radio operator, riverboat captain ♦ second assistant engineer, STEWARD/STEWARDESS, WINE ♦ third assistant engineer, TUGBOAT CAPTAIN, TUGBOAT MATE ♦ Veteran status. (references) |
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Screenplays | I have a friend in the Coast Guard, all I have to do is call (Outbreak; writing credit: Laurence Dworet; Robert Roy Pool) If I were going to be careful, I'd have joined the Coast Guard. (Navy SEALS; writing credit: Chuck Pfarrer; Gary Goldman) Who names his boat Coast Guard anyway (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen) I've only got a stole horse; everybody except the Coast Guard is after me; I've got nothin' but miles of open country to cross; and now I'm carrying a crazy woman around wearin' shoes from Bloomingbirds who thinks she's seen a rattlesnake round up. (The Electric Horseman; writing credit: Shelly Burton; Paul Gaer) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Fighting Coast Guard (1951) Rudy Vallee and His Coast Guard Band (1944) Don Winslow of the Coast Guard (1943) U.S. Coast Guard (1942) S.O.S. Coast Guard (1942) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Coast Guard Cutter Bear at Demarcation Point Provided transportation for magnetic field work by C&GS officer J. T. Watkins. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Using Coast Guard light tower as base for ARGO whip antenna Party off of PEIRCE. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | A decorative lighthouse graces the entrance to the United States Coast Guard Base at Charleston. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Water skiing in Womens Bay near the Coast Guard Base. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Buoys ready to guide mariners at the Coast Guard Station. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Wind-swept dunes near the abandoned Coast Guard Station. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | American soldiers disembark from a Coast Guard landing craft off Normandy under heavy Nazi machine gun fire on June 6, 1944. (P.; photo by Coast Guard Chief Photographer's Mate Robert F. Sargent).. |  | Some of the structures remaining on the Coast Guard withdrawal adjacent to the BLM area. Credit: Jerry Sintz. |
 | Steps to lighthouse at the Coast Guard facility. Credit: Jerry Sintz. |  | U.S. Coast Guard Station, Ketchikan. Credit: Alaska Historical Image Library. |
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Business | Maritime tasks of the Coast Guard will continue to be given priority, while other Norwegian naval presence at sea will be reduced. (references) | |
The Norwegian part of the requirement is for about 14 maritime helicopters, 6-8 to replace old coast guard Lynx aircraft, and 6 antisubmarine warfare helicopters for the new frigates. (references) | ||
The Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Interior (includes the Civil Defense Department and Border and Coast Guard) are the main consumers of security systems and equipment followed by oil companies. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Greece | On November 5, the coast guard intercepted and assisted a disabled, Turkish-flag vessel that carried 714 persons believed to be heading for Italy. (references) |
Economic History | Costa Rica | A professional Coast Guard was established in 2000. (references) |
Mauritius | The U.S. funds a small military assistance program focused on Coast Guard training. (references) | |
Political Economy | Argentina | The Federal Police (PFA) report to the Interior Minister, as do the Border Police ("Gendarmeria") and Coast Guard. (references) |
Jamaica | The Jamaica Defense Force (JDF--army, air wing, and coast guard) is charged with national defense, marine narcotics interdiction, and JCF support. (references) | |
Ecuador | This year, the U.S. Coast Guard cleaned up an extensive oil spill that damaged and threatened the delicate and unique ecosystem of the Galapagos Islands. (references) | |
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Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | The Navy, including the Marine Corps and the Coast Guard, has discharged over one and a half million. |
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Expression using "COAST GUARD": coast Guard Isla. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "COAST GUARD"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Dutch | marinevaartuig ter beveiliging van de kustwateren. (various references) | |
Finnish | rannikkovartioalus. (various references) | |
French | garde-côte, garde cotière. (various references) | |
German | Küstenwache, Küstenwächter. (various references) | |
Greek | ακτοφύλακασ, ακτοφυλακή (coastguard). (various references) | |
Hungarian | partvédelem (coast-guard), parti õrség. (various references) | |
Italian | guardacoste (coastguard, patrol boat). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 沿岸警備隊 , 水上警察 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | すいじょうけいさつ, え"が"けいびたい. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oastcay uardgay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | guarda costeira (coast-guard). (various references) | |
Romanian | pazã de coastã. (various references) | |
Russian | береговой охрана. (various references) | |
Swedish | kustbevakning. (various references) | |
Turkish | sahil koruma görevlisi, sahil koruma. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: coastguard. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-g-o-r-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: sugarcoat. | |
-2 letters: dogcarts, outdrags. | |
-3 letters: costard, cougars, crusado, custard, daturas, dogcart, dustrag, ostraca, outdrag, ragouts, saguaro, surcoat, turacos. | |
-4 letters: acarus, actors, agoras, aortas, argots, carats, cargos, castor, costar, cougar, courts, datura, douras, ducats, durocs, gators, gourds, gradus, groats, grouts, guacos, guards, octads, outgas, ragout, rugosa, scrota, soucar, stroud, tarocs, tragus, turaco. | |
-5 letters: actor, adust, agars. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-d-g-o-r-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: coastguards, sugarcoated. | |
+3 letters: coastguardman, coastguardmen. | |
+4 letters: coastguardsman, coastguardsmen. | |
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