Sea

8 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sea \Sea\ (s[=e]), n. [OE. see, AS. s[=ae]; akin to D. zee, OS.
     & OHG. s[=e]o, G. see, OFries. se, Dan. s["o], Sw. sj["o],
     Icel. saer, Goth. saiws, and perhaps to L. saevus fierce,
     savage. [root]151a.]
     1. One of the larger bodies of salt water, less than an
        ocean, found on the earth's surface; a body of salt water


        of second rank, generally forming part of, or connecting
        with, an ocean or a larger sea; as, the Mediterranean Sea;
        the Sea of Marmora; the North Sea; the Carribean Sea.
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     2. An inland body of water, esp. if large or if salt or
        brackish; as, the Caspian Sea; the Sea of Aral; sometimes,
        a small fresh-water lake; as, the Sea of Galilee.
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     3. The ocean; the whole body of the salt water which covers a
        large part of the globe.
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              I marvel how the fishes live in the sea. --Shak.
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              Ambiguous between sea and land
              The river horse and scaly crocodile.  --Milton.
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     4. The swell of the ocean or other body of water in a high
        wind; motion or agitation of the water's surface; also, a
        single wave; a billow; as, there was a high sea after the
        storm; the vessel shipped a sea.
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     5. (Jewish Antiq.) A great brazen laver in the temple at
        Jerusalem; -- so called from its size.
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              He made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to
              brim, round in compass, and five cubits the height
              thereof.                              --2 Chron. iv.
                                                    2.
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     6. Fig.: Anything resembling the sea in vastness; as, a sea
        of glory. --Shak.
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              All the space . . . was one sea of heads.
                                                    --Macaulay.
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     Note: Sea is often used in the composition of words of
           obvious signification; as, sea-bathed, sea-beaten,
           sea-bound, sea-bred, sea-circled, sealike, sea-nursed,
           sea-tossed, sea-walled, sea-worn, and the like. It is
           also used either adjectively or in combination with
           substantives; as, sea bird, sea-bird, or seabird, sea
           acorn, or sea-acorn.
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     {At sea}, upon the ocean; away from land; figuratively,
        without landmarks for guidance; lost; at the mercy of
        circumstances. "To say the old man was at sea would be too
        feeble an expression." --G. W. Cable
  
     {At full sea} at the height of flood tide; hence, at the
        height. "But now God's mercy was at full sea." --Jer.
        Taylor.
  
     {Beyond seas}, or {Beyond the sea} or {Beyond the seas}
        (Law), out of the state, territory, realm, or country.
        --Wharton.
  
     {Half seas over}, half drunk. [Colloq.] --Spectator.
  
     {Heavy sea}, a sea in which the waves run high.
  
     {Long sea}, a sea characterized by the uniform and steady
        motion of long and extensive waves.
  
     {Short sea}, a sea in which the waves are short, broken, and
        irregular, so as to produce a tumbling or jerking motion.
        
  
     {To go to sea}, to adopt the calling or occupation of a
        sailor.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ocean \O"cean\ ([=o]"shan), n. [F. oc['e]an, L. oceanus, Gr.
     'wkeano`s ocean, in Homer, the great river supposed to
     encompass the earth.]
     1. The whole body of salt water which covers more than three
        fifths of the surface of the globe; -- called also the
        {sea}, or {great sea}.
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              Like the odor of brine from the ocean
              Comes the thought of other years.     --Longfellow.
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     2. One of the large bodies of water into which the great
        ocean is regarded as divided, as the Atlantic, Pacific,
        Indian, Arctic and Antarctic oceans.
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     3. An immense expanse; any vast space or quantity without
        apparent limits; as, the boundless ocean of eternity; an
        ocean of affairs. --Locke.
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              You're gonna need an ocean
              Of calamine lotion.                   --Lieber &
                                                    Stoller
                                                    (Poison Ivy:
                                                    song lyrics,
                                                    1994)
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  sea
       adj : relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or
             ships; "sea stories"; "sea smells"; "sea traffic" [syn:
              {sea(a)}] [ant: {air(a)}, {land(a)}]
       n 1: a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water
            partially enclosed by land
       2: anything apparently limitless in quantity or volume [syn: {ocean}]
       3: turbulent water with swells of considerable size; "heavy
          seas"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  97 Moby Thesaurus words for "sea":
     abundance, acres, bags, barrels, big drink, billow, blue,
     blue water, bore, breakers, brine, briny, bushel, chop, choppiness,
     chopping sea, comb, comber, copiousness, countlessness, deep,
     dirty water, drink, eagre, flood, gravity wave, ground swell,
     heave, heavy sea, heavy swell, high sea, high seas, hydrosphere,
     lift, load, lop, main, main sea, mass, mountain, much, multitude,
     numerousness, ocean, ocean depths, ocean main, ocean sea, oceans,
     peak, peck, plenitude, plenty, popple, profusion, quantities,
     quantity, riffle, ripple, rise, roll, roller, rough water,
     salt sea, salt water, scend, send, spate, superabundance,
     superfluity, surf, surge, swell, thalassa, the bounding main,
     the brine, the briny, the briny deep, the deep, the deep sea,
     the seven seas, the vasty deep, tidal bore, tidal wave, tide,
     tide wave, tons, trough, tsunami, undulation, volume, water wave,
     wave, wavelet, white horses, whitecaps, world, worlds
  
  

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

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From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  SEA. The ocean; the great mass of waters which surrounds the land, and which 
  probably extends from pole to pole, covering nearly three quarters of the 
  globe. Waters within the ebb and flow of the tide, are to be considered the 
  sea. Gilp. R. 526. 
       2. The sea is public and common to all people, and every person has an 
  equal right to navigate it, or to fish there; Ang. on Tide Wat. 44 to 49; 
  Dane's Abr. c. 68, a. 3, 4; Inst. 2, 1, 1; and to land upon the sea, shore. 
  (q.v.) 
       3. Every nation has jurisdiction to the distance of a cannon shot, (q, 
  v.) or marine league, over the water adjacent to its shore. 2 Cranch, 187, 
  234; 1 Circuit Rep. 62; Bynk. Qu. Pub. Juris. 61; 1 Azuni Mar. Law, 204; Id. 
  185; Vattel, 207: