Surf

6 definitions found

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

  Surf \Surf\, n. [Formerly spelled suffe, and probably the same
     word as E. sough.]
     The swell of the sea which breaks upon the shore, esp. upon a
     sloping beach.
     [1913 Webster]
  


     {Surf bird} (Zool.), a ploverlike bird of the genus
        {Aphriza}, allied to the turnstone.
  
     {Surf clam} (Zool.), a large clam living on the open coast,
        especially {Mactra solidissima} (syn. {Spisula
        solidissima}). See {Mactra}.
  
     {Surf duck} (Zool.), any one of several species of sea ducks
        of the genus {Oidemia}, especially {Oidemia
        percpicillata}; -- called also {surf scoter}. See the Note
        under {Scoter}.
  
     {Surf fish} (Zool.), any one of numerous species of
        California embiotocoid fishes. See {Embiotocoid}.
  
     {Surf smelt}. (Zool.) See {Smelt}.
  
     {Surf whiting}. (Zool.) See under {Whiting}.
        [1913 Webster]

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

  Surf \Surf\, n.
     The bottom of a drain. [Prov. Eng.]
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  surf
       n : waves breaking on the shore [syn: {breaker}, {breakers}]
       v 1: ride the waves of the sea with a surfboard; "Californians
            love to surf"
       2: look around casually and randomly, without seeking anything
          in particular; "browse a computer directory"; "surf the
          internet or the world wide web" [syn: {browse}]
       3: switch channels, on television [syn: {channel-surf}]

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

  62 Moby Thesaurus words for "surf":
     billow, bore, breakers, chop, choppiness, chopping sea, collar,
     comb, comber, dirty water, eagre, foam, froth, gravity wave,
     ground swell, head, heave, heavy sea, heavy swell, lather, lift,
     lop, meringue, mousse, offscum, peak, popple, puff, riffle, ripple,
     rise, roll, roller, rough water, scend, scud, scum, sea, sea foam,
     send, soapsuds, souffle, spindrift, spoondrift, spray, spume,
     stinging, suds, surge, swell, tidal bore, tidal wave, tide wave,
     trough, tsunami, undulation, water wave, wave, wavelet,
     white horses, white water, whitecaps
  
  

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

  SURF
       System Utilization Reporting Facility
       
       

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  surf v. [from the `surf' idiom for rapidly flipping TV channels] To
     traverse the Internet in search of interesting stuff, used esp. if one
     is doing so with a World Wide Web browser. It is also common to speak of
     `surfing in' to a particular resource.
  
     Hackers adopted this term early, but many have stopped using it since
     it went completely mainstream around 1995. The passive, couch-potato
     connotations that go with TV channel surfing were never pleasant, and
     hearing non-hackers wax enthusiastic about "surfing the net" tends to
     make hackers feel a bit as though their home is being overrun by
     ignorami.