Ocean
['əʊʃ(ə)n] or ['oʃən]
Definition
(noun.) a large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere.
(noun.) anything apparently limitless in quantity or volume.
Typist: Melba--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) An immense expanse; any vast space or quantity without apparent limits; as, the boundless ocean of eternity; an ocean of affairs.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the main or great sea; as, the ocean waves; an ocean stream.
Typed by Keller
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Sea, main, deep, great deep, great sea, high sea.
Checker: Roy
Definition
n. the vast expanse of salt water that covers the greater part of the surface of the globe: one of its five great divisions (Atlantic Pacific Indian Arctic Antarctic): any immense expanse or vast quantity.—adj. pertaining to the great sea.—n. O′cean-bā′sin the depression of the earth's surface in which the waters of an ocean are contained.—adjs. Ocean′ian pertaining to Oceania which includes Polynesia Micronesia Melanesia Australasia and Malaysia; Ocean′ic pertaining to the ocean: found or formed in the ocean or high seas pelagic: wide like the ocean.—ns.pl. Ocean′ic-is′lands islands far from the mainland situated in the midst of the ocean; Ocean′ides marine molluscs or sea-shells.—ns. O′cean-lane (see Lane); Oceanog′rapher one versed in oceanography.—adj. Oceanograph′ic.—ns. Oceanog′raphy the scientific description of the ocean; Oceanol′ogy the science of the ocean: a treatise on the ocean.
Typist: Owen
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of the ocean when it is calm is propitious. The sailor will have a pleasant and profitable voyage. The business man will enjoy a season of remuneration, and the young man will revel in his sweetheart's charms. To be far out on the ocean, and hear the waves lash the ship, forebodes disaster in business life, and quarrels and stormy periods in the household. To be on shore and see the waves of the ocean foaming against each other, foretells your narrow escape from injury and the designs of enemies. To dream of seeing the ocean so shallow as to allow wading, or a view of the bottom, signifies prosperity and pleasure with a commingling of sorrow and hardships. To sail on the ocean when it is calm, is always propitious.
Editor: Stu
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man—who has no gills.
Editor: Verna
Unserious Contents or Definition
An old toper who is always soaked, has many a hard night along the coast, floats many a schooner, lashes himself into a fury because so frequently crossed, and has his barks in every port. At sea, the king of the elements; on shore, a mere surf.
Checked by Evan
Examples
- My own small income (I devoutly wish that my grandfather had left it to the Ocean rather than to me! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Before a lobster is cooked he is green, that being the color of the rocks around which he lives on the bottom of the ocean. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- H ow are strata raised from the ocean bed? Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Poseidon, has thou then girdled Hymettus with the azure scarf of ocean? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- In the early history of steam navigation the side wheel steamer was the favorite, and was employed for ocean travel as well as for inland waters. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- They are sent out through this magnetic field, and follow the earth’s curvature, in the same way that tidal waves follow the ocean’s surface. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- A great bank, half a mile out, nigh the mouth of the bay, breaks the force of the main ocean coming in from the offing. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- A device for continuously indicating on a galvanometer the depths of the ocean. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- But the test had proved Morse’s theory, and he became convinced that in time messages could be sent across the ocean as easily as over land. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The heave of the main ocean on the great sandbank out in the bay, was a heave that made no sound. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- From the Gulf of Finland to the Eastern Ocean, Russia now assumes the form of a powerful and civilized empire. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The kelps are abundant, covering thousands of square miles in the Pacific Ocean, from Mexico to the Arctic Ocean. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Have they big boats to cross the ocean? Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Perhaps it sent out arms to the Arctic Ocean. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It seems, therefore, not incredible that the region abou t the Pillars of Hercules [Gibraltar] is connected with that of India, and that there is thus only one ocean. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- It is found, it is to be noted, in the warm waters of the Indian and Pacific oceans. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- All over the oceans there was the same reduction in the time and the same increase in the certainty of human communications. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They were separated by oceans, seas, thick forests, deserts or mountains from one another. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- For the first time men began to cross the seas and oceans with some certainty as to the date of their arrival. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Simply because if ice sank to the bottoms of rivers, lakes, and oceans as fast as it froze, those places would be frozen up and there would be no water left. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I assure you, Oceans! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- This film of water is about five miles thick at its deepest part--that is to say, the deepest oceans have a depth of five miles. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In the coral-producing oceans such sunken islands are now marked by rings of coral or atolls standing over them. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
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