sea
海,海洋,大海,海上
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Definitions
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- : the salt waters that cover the greater part of the earth's surface.
- : a division of these waters, of considerable extent, more or less definitely marked off by land boundaries: the North Sea.
- : one of the seven seas; ocean.
- : a large lake or landlocked body of water.
- : the degree or amount of turbulence of the ocean or other body of water, as caused by the wind.
- : the waves.
- : a large wave: The heavy seas almost drowned us.
- : a widely extended, copious, or overwhelming quantity: a sea of faces; a sea of troubles.
- : the work, travel, and shipboard life of a sailor: The sea is a hard life but a rewarding one.
- : Astronomy. mare.
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Phrases
- sea legs
- seal of approval
- seal off
- seal one's fate
- at sea
- between a rock and a hard place (devil and the deep blue sea)
- high seas
- not the only fish in the sea
- put out (to sea)
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Examples
There’s also a new altimeter to see how far above or below sea level you are.
A couple months ago, the deep-sea servers were brought back up to the surface so engineers could inspect them and evaluate how they’d performed while under water.
Rising seas can play a role in fighting climate change, her team finds.
Rising seas and increasingly violent hurricanes are making thousands of miles of American shoreline nearly uninhabitable.
A complete collapse of the glacier, which some researchers estimate could happen within the next few decades, could increase sea levels by about 65 centimeters.
My dad was a sailor, and all through my childhood he was away half of the time at sea, and to an extent I have a similar job.
It is the only tourist center Ukraine has left on the Black Sea, since Russia annexed Crimea last spring.
The wreckage lies no more than around 100 feet down in the Java Sea.
And for those on the Palestinian right who still dream of driving the Jews into the sea, they too can forget it.
Search teams find dozens of people and jet debris floating in the Java Sea, as the airline confirms the wreckage is from QZ8501.
Edna did not reveal so much as all this to Madame Ratignolle that summer day when they sat with faces turned to the sea.
Edna Pontellier, casting her eyes about, had finally kept them at rest upon the .