Sea

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  • noun. The continuous body of salt water covering most of the earth's surface, especially this body regarded as a geophysical entity distinct from earth and sky.
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  • noun. A tract of water within an ocean.
  • noun. A relatively large body of salt water completely or partially enclosed by land.
  • noun. A relatively large landlocked body of fresh water.
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  • noun. The condition of the ocean's surface with regard to its course, flow, swell, or turbulence.
  • noun. A wave or swell, especially a large one.
  • noun. Something that suggests the ocean in its overwhelming sweep or vastness.
  • noun. Seafaring as a way of life.
  • noun. A lunar mare.
  • idiom. (at sea) On the sea, especially on a sea voyage.
  • idiom. (at sea) In a state of confusion or perplexity; at a loss.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. An obsolete spelling of see.
  • noun. The salt waters that cover the greater part of the earth's surface; the ocean.
  • noun. A great body of salt water; a more or less distinctly limited or landlocked part of the ocean having considerable dimensions.
  • noun. Any widely extended or overwhelming mass or quantity; an ocean; a flood: as, a sea of difficulties; a sea of upturned faces.
  • noun. The swell of the ocean, or the direction of the waves: as, there was a heavy sea on; to keep the boat's head to the sea.
  • noun. A large wave; a billow; a surge: as, to ship a sea.
  • noun. Out on the ocean, and out of sight of land; hence, in the condition of a mariner who has lost his bearings; in a state of uncertainty or error; astray; wide of the mark; quite wrong: as, you are altogether at sea in your guesses.
  • noun. By the margin of the sea; on the sea-coast.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. An inland body of water, esp. if large or if salt or brackish; ; sometimes, a small fresh-water lake.
  • noun. The ocean; the whole body of the salt water which covers a large part of the globe.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. A great brazen laver in the temple at Jerusalem; -- so called from its size.
  • noun. Fig.: Anything resembling the sea in vastness.
  • noun. upon the ocean; away from land; figuratively, without landmarks for guidance; lost; at the mercy of circumstances.
  • noun. at the height of flood tide; hence, at the height.
  • noun. out of the state, territory, realm, or country.
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  • noun. half drunk.
  • noun. a sea in which the waves run high.
  • noun. a sea characterized by the uniform and steady motion of long and extensive waves.
  • noun. a sea in which the waves are short, broken, and irregular, so as to produce a tumbling or jerking motion.
  • noun. to adopt the calling or occupation of a sailor.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A large body of salty water. (Major seas are known as oceans.)
  • noun. A large number or quantity; a vast amount.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. anything apparently limitless in quantity or volume
  • noun. turbulent water with swells of considerable size
  • noun. a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land
  • Word Usage
    "She spends hours and hours on the terrace overlooking the sea (her great desire, she confided to me, is to get to the sea -- to get _back to the sea_, as she expressed it), and lying in the garden, under the big myrtle-bushes, and, in spring and summer, under the rose-hedge."
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