Sea

[siː] or [si]

Definition

(noun.) a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land.

(noun.) turbulent water with swells of considerable size; 'heavy seas'.

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Definition

(n.) 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.

(n.) 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.

(n.) The ocean; the whole body of the salt water which covers a large part of the globe.

(n.) The swell of the ocean or other body of water in a high wind; motion 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.

(n.) A great brazen laver in the temple at Jerusalem; -- so called from its size.

(n.) Fig.: Anything resembling the sea in vastness; as, a sea of glory.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

n. [1]. Ocean, main, the deep, the great deep, great sea, high sea.[2]. Wave, billow.

Editor: Lucia

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Ocean, deep, main

ANT:Shore, land

Checker: Witt

Definition

n. the great mass of salt water covering the greater part of the earth's surface: any great expanse of water less than an ocean: the ocean: the swell of the sea in a tempest: a wave: any widely extended mass or quantity a flood: any rough or agitated place or element.—ns. Sea′-ā′corn a barnacle; Sea′-add′er the fifteen-spined stickle-back; Sea′-an′chor a floating anchor used at sea in a gale; Sea′-anem′one a kind of polyp like an anemone found on rocks on the seacoast; Sea′-ape the sea-otter; Sea′-ā′pron a kind of kelp; Sea′-arr′ow a flying squid: an arrow-worm; Sea′-aspar′agus a soft-shelled crab; Sea′-bank the seashore; an embankment to keep out the sea; Sea′-bar the sea-swallow or tern; Sea′-barr′ow the egg-case of a ray or skate; Sea′-bass a name applied to some perch-like marine fishes many common food-fishes in America—black sea-bass bluefish &c.; Sea′-bat a genus of Teleostean fishes allied to the Pilot-fish and included among the Carangid or horse-mackerels—the name refers to the very long dorsal anal and ventral fins; Sea′-beach the seashore; Sea′-bean the seed of a leguminous climbing plant: a small univalve shell: the lid of the aperture of any shell of the family Turbinid commonly worn as amulets; Sea′-bear the polar bear: the North Pacific fur-seal; Sea′-beast (Milt.) a monster of the sea.—adjs. Sea′-beat -en lashed by the waves.—n. Sea′-beav′er the sea-otter.—n.pl. Sea′-bells a species of bindweed.—ns. Sea′-belt the sweet fucus plant; Sea′-bird any marine bird; Sea′-bis′cuit ship-biscuit; Sea′-blubb′er a jelly-fish; Sea′-board the border or shore of the sea; Sea′-boat a vessel considered with reference to her behaviour in bad weather.—adjs. Sea′-born produced by the sea; Sea′-borne carried on the sea.—ns. Sea′-bott′le a seaweed; Sea′-boy (Shak.) a boy employed on shipboard: a sailor-boy; Sea′-brant the brent goose; Sea′-breach the breaking of an embankment by the sea; Sea′-bream one of several sparoid fishes: a fish related to the mackerel; Sea′-breeze a breeze of wind blowing from the sea toward the land esp. that from about 10 a.m. till sunset; Sea′-buckthorn or Sallow-thorn a genus of large shrubs or trees with gray silky foliage and entire leaves; Sea′-bum′blebee the little auk; Sea′-bun a heart-urchin; Sea′-bur′dock clotbur; Sea′-cabb′age sea-kale; Sea′-calf the common seal so called from the supposed resemblance of its voice to that of a calf; Sea′-canā′ry the white whale; Sea′-cap (Shak.) a cap worn on shipboard: a basket-shaped sponge; Sea′-cap′tain the captain of a ship as distinguished from a captain in the army; Sea′-card the card of the mariners' compass: a map of the ocean; Sea′-carnā′tion a sea-pink; Sea′-cat a name of various animals as the wolf-fish the chim鎟a any sea-cat-fish; Sea′-cat′erpillar a scale-back; Sea′-cat′-fish a marine siluroid fish; Sea′-cat′gut a common seaweed—sea-lace; Sea′-caul′iflower a polyp; Sea′-cen′tiped one of several large marine annelids; Sea′-change (Shak.) a change effected by the sea; Sea′-chart a chart or map of the sea its islands coasts &c.; Sea′-chest′nut a sea-urchin; Sea′-chick′weed a seaside species of sandwort; Sea′-clam the surf clam used for food: a clamp for deep-sea sounding-lines; Sea′-coal coal brought by sea as distinguished from charcoal; Sea′coast the coast or shore of the sea: the land adjacent to the sea; Sea′-cob a sea-gull; Sea′-cock a gurnard: the sea-plover: a valve communicating with the sea through a vessel's hull: a sea-rover or viking; Sea′-col′ander a large olive seaweed; Sea′-cole′wort sea-kale; Sea′-com′pass the mariners' compass; Sea′-cook a cook on shipboard; Sea′-coot a black sea-duck; Sea′-cor′morant a sea-crow; Sea′-corn the string of egg-capsules of the whelk or similar gasteropod—also Sea′-ruff′le Sea′-hon′eycomb Sea′-neck′lace &c.; Sea′-cow the walrus: the rhytina: the dugong or manatee: the hippopotamus; Sea′-crab a marine crab; Sea′-craft skill in navigation; Sea′-craw′fish a prawn or shrimp; Sea′-crow a name of various birds as the common skua the chough the coot &c.; Sea′-cū′cumber trepang or b阠he-de-mer; Sea′-dace a sea-perch: the common English bass; Sea′-daff′odil a plant producing showy fragrant flowers; Sea′-dai′sy the lady's cushion; Sea′-dev′il a name of various fishes as the ox-ray the angel-fish &c.; Sea′-dog the harbour-seal: the dog-fish: an old sailor: a pirate: (her.) a bearing representing a beast nearly like a talbot; Sea′-dott′erel the turnstone; Sea′-dove the little auk; Sea′-drag′on a flying sea-horse; Sea′-drake a sea-crow; Sea′-duck a duck often found on salt waters having the hind-toe lobate: the eider-duck; Sea′-ea′gle the white-tailed eagle: the bald eagle: the osprey: the eagle-ray; Sea′-ear a mollusc an ormer or abalone; Sea′-eel a conger-eel; Sea′-egg a sea-urchin: a sea-hedgehog: a whore's egg; Sea′-el′ephant the largest of the seal family the male about 20 feet long an inhabitant of the southern seas; Sea′-fan an alcyonarian polyp with a beautiful much-branched fan-like skeleton; Sea′fārer a traveller by sea a sailor.—adj. Sea′fāring faring or going to sea: belonging to a seaman.—ns. Sea′-feath′er a polyp a sea-pen; Sea′-fenn′el samphire; Sea′-fight a battle between ships at sea; Sea′-fir a sertularian polyp; Sea′-fire phosphorescence at sea; Sea′-fish any salt-water or marine fish; Sea′-foam the froth of the sea: meerschaum; Sea′-fog a fog occurring near the coast.—n.pl. Sea′-folk seafaring people.—ns. Sea′-fowl a sea-bird; Sea′-fox or Fox-shark the thresher the commonest of the larger sharks occasionally seen off British coasts over 12 feet long following shoals of herrings pilchards &c.; Sea′front the side of the land or of a building which looks toward the sea; Sea′-froth the foam of the sea seaweeds; Sea′-gage -gauge the depth a vessel sinks in the water: an instrument for determining the depth of the sea.—n.pl. Sea′-gates a pair of gates in a tidal basin as a safeguard against a heavy sea.—ns. Sea′-gher′kin a sea-cucumber; Sea′-gill′iflower the common thrift; Sea′-gin′ger millipore coral.—adj. Sea′-girt girt or surrounded by the sea.—ns. Sea′-god one of the divinities ruling over or inhabiting the sea:—fem. Sea′-god′dess.—adj. Sea′-gō′ing sailing on the deep sea as opposed to coasting or river vessels.—ns. Sea′-goose a dolphin: a phalarope; Sea′-gown (Shak.) a short-sleeved garment worn at sea; Sea′-grape a genus of shrubby plants of the natural order Gnetace closely allied to the Conifers and sometimes called Joint-firs: a glasswort: the clustered egg-cases of sepia and some other cuttle-fish; Sea′-grass the thrift: grasswrack: a variety of cirrus cloud.—adj. Sea′-green green like the sea.—ns. Sea′-grove a grove in the bottom of the sea; Sea′-gull (same as Gull); Sea′-haar (Scot.) a chilling piercing mist arising from the sea; Sea′-hall a hall in the bottom of the sea; Sea′-hare a name given to the genus Aplysia of nudibranch gasteropods; Sea′-hawk a rapacious gull-like bird: a skua; Sea-hedge′hog a sea-urchin: a globe-fish: a sea-egg: a porcupine-fish; Sea′-hen (Scot.) the common guillemot: the great skua: the piper gurnard; Sea′-hog a porpoise; Sea′-holl′y the eryngo; Sea′-holm a small uninhabited island: sea-holly; Sea′horse the walrus: the hippopotamus or river-horse: the hippocampus; Sea′-hound the dog-fish; Sea′-island cott′on a fine long-stapled variety grown on the islands off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia; Sea′-jell′y a sea-blubber; Sea′kale a perennial plant with large roundish sinuated sea-green leaves found on British seashores the blanched sprouts forming a favourite esculent; Sea′-kid′ney a polyp of the genus Renilla so called from its shape; Sea′-king a name sometimes given to the leaders of the early Scandinavian piratical expeditions; Sea′-kitt′ie a kittiwake; Sea′-lace a species of alg?mdash;sea-catgut; Sea′-lam′prey a marine lamprey; Sea′-lark a sandpiper as the dunlin: a ring-plover as the ring-dotterel: the sea-titling; Sea′-lav′ender a salt-marsh plant: marsh rosemary; Sea′-law′yer a captious sailor an idle litigious ′long-shorer more given to question orders than to obey them: the mangrove snapper: a tiger-shark; Sea′-leech a marine suctorial annelid.—n.pl. Sea′-legs ability to walk on a ship's deck when it is pitching or rolling.—ns. Sea′-lem′on a doridoid; Sea′-len′til the gulf-weed; Sea′-leop′ard a seal of the southern seas with spotted fur; Sea′-lett′er -brief a document of description that used to be given to a ship at the port where she was fitted out; Sea′-lev′el the level or surface of the sea generally the mean level between high and low water.—adj. Sea′-like like or resembling the sea.—ns. Sea′-lil′y a lily-star: a living crinoid; Sea′-line the line where sky and sea seem to meet: lines used for fishing in deep water; Sea′-lin′tie (Scot.) the sea-titling: a sea-lark: the rock-lintie; Sea′-lī′on a species of otary—from its barking-roar and the mane of the male: (her.) a monster consisting of the upper part of a lion combined with the tail of a fish; Sea′-liq′uor brine; Sea′-liz′ard a nudibranchiate gasteropod: a fossil reptile; Sea′-loach a gadoid fish a Motella; Sea′-long′worm a nemertean worm; Sea′-louse a parasitic isopod crustacean: the horse-shoe crab; Sea′-luce the hake; Sea′-lungs a comb-jelly; Sea′-mag′pie a sea-pie: the oyster-catcher; Sea′maid (Shak.) a mermaid: a sea-nymph; Sea′-mall a sea-gull; Sea′man a man below the rank of officer employed in the navigation of a ship at sea: a sailor: a merman.—adjs. Sea′man-like showing good seamanship; Sea′manly characteristic of a seaman.—ns. Sea′manship the art of navigating ships at sea; Sea′-man′tis a squill; Sea′-marge the marge or shore of the sea; Sea′mark any mark or object on land serving as a guide to those at sea: a beacon; Sea′-mat a very common genus of polyzoa; in the wrack of the seashore—also Hornwrack; Sea′-mel′on a pedate holothurian; Sea′-mew the common gull any gull—also Sea′-maw (Scot.); Sea′-mile a geographical mile 6080 feet in length; Sea′-mink a kind of American whiting; Sea′-monk the monk-seal; Sea′-mon′ster any huge marine animal; Sea′-moss a kind of compound polyzoan: Irish moss or carrageen; Sea′-mouse a genus of Ch鎡opod worms covered with iridescent silky hairs; Sea′-mud a rich saline deposit from salt-marshes; Sea′-muss′el a marine bivalve; Sea′-need′le the garfish; Sea′-nett′le any of the stinging species of acaleph? Sea′-nurse a shark; Sea′-nymph a goddess of the sea esp. one of the Oceanids; Sea′-on′ion the officinal squill; Sea′-ooze sea-mud; Sea′-or′ange a large globose orange-coloured holothurian; Sea′-orb a globe-fish; Sea′-ott′er a marine otter; Sea′-owl the lump-fish or lump-sucker; Sea′-ox the walrus; Sea′-ox′eye a fleshy seashore plant; Sea′-pad a star-fish; Sea′-pan′ther a South African fish brown with black spots; Sea′-parr′ot a puffin: an auk; Sea′-pars′nip an umbelliferous plant; Sea′-par′tridge the English conner a labroid fish; Sea′-pass a passport or document carried by neutral merchant-vessels to secure them against molestation; Sea′-pea the beach-pea; Sea′-peach a sea-squirt or ascidian; Sea′-pear a sea-squirt; Sea′-pen one of the radiate zoophytes somewhat resembling a quill; Sea′-perch a sea-dace: a bass: the red-fish or rose-fish; Sea′-pert the opah; Sea′-pheas′ant the pintail or sprigtail duck; Sea′-pie a sailor's dish made of salt-meat vegetables and dumplings baked: the oyster-catcher or sea-magpie: (her.) a bearing representing such a bird; Sea′-piece a picture representing a scene at sea; Sea′-pig a porpoise: the dugong; Sea′-pi′geon the black guillemot; Sea′-pike an edible American fish found on the Florida and Texas coasts allied to the perches: the garfish or belone: the hake; Sea′-pin′cushion the mermaid's purse: a star-fish; Sea′-pink a sea-carnation; Sea′-plant an alga; Sea′-poach′er the armed bull-head; Sea′-por′cupine any fish of the genus Diodon whose body is covered with spines; Sea′-pork an American compound ascidian; Sea′port a port or harbour on the seashore: a town near such a harbour; Sea′-pudd′ing a sea-cucumber; Sea′-pump′kin a sea-melon; Sea′-purse a sea-barrow: a skate-barrow; Sea′-quail the turnstone; Sea′-rat the chimera: a pirate; Sea′-rā′ven the cormorant: the North American bull-head; Sea′-reed the mat grass; Sea′-reeve an officer in maritime towns; Sea′-risk hazard of injury by sea; Sea′-rob′ber a pirate; Sea′-rob′in a common American name for fishes of the genus Prionotus which represents in America the European gurnards: the red-breasted merganser; Sea′-rock′et a cruciferous plant of genus Cakile; Sea′-rod a kind of sea-pen a polyp; Sea′-roll a holothurian; Sea′-room room or space at sea for a ship to be navigated without running ashore; Sea′-rose a sea-anemone; Sea′-rose′mary sea-lavender; Sea′-rō′ver a pirate: a vessel employed in cruising for plunder; Sea′-rō′ving piracy; Sea′-ruff a sea-bream; Sea′-salt common salt obtained from sea-water by evaporation; Sea′scape a sea-piece; Sea′-scor′pion a scorpion-fish: a cottoid-fish; Sea′-ser′pent an enormous marine animal of serpent-like form frequently seen and described by credulous sailors imaginative landsmen and common liars: a name applied to various marine venomous serpents; Sea′-serv′ice service on board ship; Sea′-shark the man-eater shark; Sea′-shell a marine shell; Sea′shore the land adjacent to the sea: (law) the ground between high-water mark and low-water mark; Sea′-shrub a sea-fan.—adj. Sea′sick affected with sickness through the rolling of a vessel at sea.—ns. Sea′sickness; Sea′side the land beside the sea; Sea′-skim′mer the skimmer bird; Sea′-slāt′er the rock-slater; Sea′-sleeve a cuttle-fish; Sea′-slug a nudibranch as a doridoid: a marine gasteropod with the shell absent or rudimentary; Sea′-snail a fish of the genus Liparis the sucker the periwinkle; Sea′-snake a sea-serpent; Sea′-snipe a sandpiper: the snipe-fish; Sea′-sol′dier a marine; Sea′-spī′der a spider-crab; Sea′-spleen′wort a fern—Asplenium marinum; Sea′-squid a cuttle-fish; Sea′-squirt any tunicate or ascidian—also Sea′-perch Sea′-pear Sea′-pork; Sea′-stick a herring cured at sea at once; Sea′-stock fresh provisions for use at sea; Sea′-straw′berry a kind of polyp; Sea′-sun′flower a sea-anemone; Sea′-sur′geon one of a family of spiny-rayed Teleostean fishes living in tropical seas esp. near coral-reefs—the name refers esp. to the members of the genus Acanthurus characterised by a lancet-like spine ensheathed on each side of the tail; Sea′-swall′ow a tern: the stormy petrel; Sea′-swine a porpoise: the sea-hog: the ballan-wrasse; Sea′-tang sea-tangle; Sea′-tan′gle one of several species of seaweeds esp. of genus Laminaria; Sea′-tench the black sea-bream; Sea′-term a word used by sailors or peculiar to ships or sailing; Sea′-thong a cord-like seaweed; Sea′-tit′ling the shore-pipit or sea-lark; Sea′-toad the sea-frog: the sculpin: the great spider-crab; Sea′-tor′toise a sea-turtle.—adj. Sea′-tost (Shak.) tossed upon or by the sea.—ns. Sea′-trout a popular name for various species of the genus Salmo but esp. for the common Salmo trutta; Sea′-trum′pet a medieval musical instrument similar to the monochord: (bot.) a large seaweed; Sea′-turn a gale from the sea; Sea′-tur′tle the sea-pigeon: a tortoise; Sea′-umbrell′a a pennatulaceous polyp; Sea′-ū′nicorn the narwhal; Sea′-ur′chin one of a class of Echinoderms some with the body symmetrical and nearly globular (Echinus) others heart-shaped (Spatangus) others shield-shaped and flattened (Clypeaster)—in all cases the body walled in by continuous plates of lime; Sea′-vam′pire a devil-fish or manta; Sea′view a picture of a scene at sea; Sea′-wall a wall to keep out the sea.—adj. Sea′-walled surrounded by the sea.—n. Sea′-wane wampum.—adj. Sea′ward towards the sea.—adv. towards or in the direction of the sea.—adjs. Sea′ward-bound outward-bound as a vessel leaving harbour; Sea′ward-gaz′ing gazing or looking towards the sea.—n. Sea′-ware that which is thrown up by the sea on the shore as seaweed &c.—n.pl. Sea′-wash′balls the egg-cases of the common whelk.—ns. Sea′-wa′ter water from the sea; Sea′-way progress made by a vessel through the waves; Sea′weed a general and popular name applied to a vast collection of lower plant-forms growing on the seacoast from high-water mark (or a little above that limit) to a depth of from 50 to 100 fathoms (rarely deeper) and all belonging to the sub-class of the Thallophyta to which the name Alg has been given; Sea′-whip any alcyonarian like black coral; Sea′-whip′cord a common form of seaweed sea-thong; Sea′-whis′tle the seaweed whose bladders are used by children as whistles; Sea′-wife a kind of wrasse; Sea′-will′ow a polyp with slender branches like the osier; Sea′-wing a wing-shell: a sail; Sea′-with′-wind a species of bindweed; Sea′-wold an imaginary tract like a wold under the sea; Sea′-wolf the wolf-fish: the sea-elephant: a viking a pirate; Sea′-wood′cock the bar-tailed godwit; Sea′-wood′louse a sea-slater: a chiton; Sea′-worm a marine annelid; Sea′-worm′wood a saline plant found on European shores.—adj. Sea′worthy fit for sea able to endure stormy weather.—ns. Sea′worthiness; Sea′-wrack coarse seaweeds of any kind.—At full sea at full tide; At sea away from land: on the ocean: astray; Go to sea to become a sailor; Half-seas over half-drunk; Heavy sea a sea in which the waves run high; High seas the open ocean; In a sea-way in the position of a vessel when a heavy sea is running; Main sea the ocean; Molten sea the great brazen laver of 1 Kings vii. 23-26; Ship a sea to have a large wave washing in; Short sea a sea in which the waves are choppy irregular and interrupted; The four seas those bounding Great Britain.

Edited by Ian