MetaGlossary.com: Abreast

Keywords: Alongside, Fore, Aft, Beam, Vessel

Related Terms: Abeam, Across, Asymmetrical, Athwart, Bilateral, Careen, Decagon, Equilateral, Front, Heel, Hexagon, Isosceles, Kite , Larboard, Lateral, Leg, List, One-Sided, Parallelogram, Port, Quadrilateral, Rectangle, Secund, Side Line, Square, Starboard, Symmetrical, Trapezoid, Triangle, Near Side, Asymmetrical, Off Side, Equilateral Triangle, Isosceles Triangle, Regular Polygon, Rhombus, Asymmetric, Alternate Interior Angles, Corresponding Angles, Isosceles Trapezoid, Scalene Triangle, Athwartships, Far Side, Symmetric, Contralateral, Altitude Of A Triangle, Median Of A Triangle, Athwartship, Breast Line, Ipsilateral

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Side by side, with breasts in a line; as, "Two men could hardly walk abreast."

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Side by side; also, opposite; over against; on a line with the vessel's beam; -- with of.

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Two vessels are abreast of one anoth4er when they lie with their sides parallel. A vessel is abreast of any place or object when it is directly opposite to it.

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When two vessels are side-by-side; along side

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alongside each other, facing on the same direction

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Side by side and at right angles to the fore and aft line.

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when a vessel runs alongside of another vessel

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Alongside something, usually another ship or a dock

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Off the side, even with the boat.

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Two vehicles side by side and facing in the same direction.

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Side by side; by the side of.

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alongside of; on the beam

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