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  • 51sea — See: at sea, between the devil and the deep blue sea, high seas, not the only fish in the sea, put to sea …

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  • 52sea — 1. noun 1) the sea sparkled in the sun Syn: ocean; informal drink, briny, salt chuck; literary deep, main, foam 2) (seas) the boat overturned in the heavy seas Syn: waves, swell, brea …

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  • 53sea — n 1. ocean, ocean blue, brine, Inf. briny, Inf. briny deep, Chiefly Literary. the deep, deep blue sea, Neptune s kingdom, hydrospace, Inf. the drink, Sl. the big drink; open ocean or sea, Literary. main, Literary. bounding main, high sea; Neptune …

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  • 54sea — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. ocean, main, lake; wave, billow, swell; profusion, multitude. See water. II (Roget s IV) n. Major seas of the world include: Bering, Caribbean, Baltic, North, Irish, Mediterranean, Adriatic, Ionian,… …

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  • 55sea — 1. noun 1) Syn: ocean, waves; informal the drink; Brit.; informal the briny; literary the deep 2) a sea of roofs Syn: expanse, stretch, area, tract, sweep, carpet, mass • …

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  • 56sea — Ocean O cean ([=o] shan), n. [F. oc[ e]an, L. oceanus, Gr. wkeano s ocean, in Homer, the great river supposed to encompass the earth.] 1. The whole body of salt water which covers more than three fifths of the surface of the globe; called also… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 57sea — [OE] Sea is a widespread Germanic word, related to German see, Dutch zee, Swedish sjö, and Danish sø (the Scandinavian words are now more usually used for ‘lake’ than ‘sea’). These all point back to a prehistoric Germanic *saiwiz, but it is not… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 58sea —     a) A large inland body of salt water (e.g., the Salton Sea, CA).     b) A geographic subdivision of an ocean (e.g., the South China Sea).    Compare: gulf, ocean, salt pond.    GG …

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  • 59sea — sɪː n. large body of salt water; large lake; ocean; large wave adj. pertaining to a sea, marine; intended for use at sea …

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  • 60sea — The ocean. A salt water arm of the ocean, even a river in which the tide ebbs and flows. Pacific Milling & Elevator Co. v Portland, 65 Or 349, 133 P 72. In the broader sense, any body of water of considerable size, whether fresh water or salt… …

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