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Sea

//siː// name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Abbreviation of Seattle. abbreviation, alt-of
  2. 2
    A surname. countable, uncountable
  3. 3
    Synonym of Mediterranean Sea.
  4. 4
    Initialism of Southeast Asia. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  5. 5
    A hamlet in Ilminster parish, South Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST3413). countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    Initialism of Single European Act. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Noun
  1. 1
    A large body of salt water.

    "God moves in a myſterious way, / His wonders to perform; / He plants his footſteps in the ſea, / And rides upon the ſtorm."

  2. 2
    Initialism of Strategic Environmental Assessment. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
  3. 3
    a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land wordnet
  4. 4
    A large body of salt water.; The ocean; the continuous body of salt water covering a majority of the Earth's surface.

    "These ſhal ye eat, of all that are in the waters: whatſoeuer hath finnes and ſcales in the waters, in the ſeas, and in the riuers, them ſhall ye eate."

  5. 5
    turbulent water with swells of considerable size wordnet
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  1. 6
    A large body of salt water.; A body of salt water smaller than an ocean, generally forming part of, or connecting with, an ocean or a larger sea.

    "The Mediterranean Sea, the Caribbean Sea, the Sea of Crete, etc."

  2. 7
    anything apparently limitless in quantity or volume wordnet
  3. 8
    A lake, especially if large or if salty or brackish.

    "The Caspian Sea, the Sea of Galilee, the Salton Sea, etc."

  4. 9
    A single wave; billow.

    "One ſea broke away the ſpare yards and ſpars out of the ſtarboard main chains. Another heavy ſea broke into the ſhip and ſtove all the boats. Several caſks of beer, that had been laſhed upon deck, were broke looſe and waſhed overboard, and it was not without great difficulty and riſk that we were able to ſecure the boats from being waſhed away entirely."

  5. 10
    The swell of the sea, especially when high or rough.

    "“Where can they be?” he cried. “They cannot have gone down, for there has been no sea, and they were afloat after the yacht sank—I saw them all.”"

  6. 11
    Living or used in or on the sea; of, near, or like the sea. attributive, in-compounds

    "Seaman, sea gauge, sea monster, sea horse, sea level, seaworthy, seaport, seaboard, etc."

  7. 12
    Anything resembling the vastness or turbulence of the sea in mass, size or quantity. figuratively

    "To be, or not to be, that is the queſtion, / Whether tis nobler in the minde to ſuffer / The ſlings and arrowes of outragious fortune, / Or to take Armes againſt a ſea of troubles, / And by oppoſing, end them, to die to ſleepe / No more, and by a ſleepe, to ſay we end / The hart-ake, and the thouſand naturall ſhocks / That fleſh is heire to; […]"

  8. 13
    A constant flux of gluons splitting into quarks, which annihilate to produce further gluons.
  9. 14
    A large, dark plain of rock; a mare.

    "The Apollo 11 mission landed in the Sea of Tranquility."

  10. 15
    A very large lake of liquid hydrocarbon.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English see, from Old English sǣ, from Proto-West Germanic *saiwi (“body of water”), from Proto-Germanic *saiwiz, itself either: * Derived from Proto-Indo-European *sh₂ey-wo- (“to be fierce, afflict”). Related to Latin saevus (“wild, fierce”), Tocharian B saiwe (“itch”), and Latvian sievs, sīvs (“sharp, biting”). More at sore. * Derived from Proto-Germanic *sīhwaną (“to percolate, filter”), from Proto-Indo-European *seykʷ-. Cognates Cognate with Yola zea, zee (“sea”), North Frisian See, sia, siie (“sea; lake”), Saterland Frisian See, Säi (“sea”), West Frisian see (“sea”), Cimbrian, Mòcheno sea (“lake”), Dutch zee (“sea”), German, German Low German See (“sea”), Limburgish Sië, zieë (“sea, ocean; lake”), Luxembourgish Séi (“lake”), West Flemish zji (“sea; seaside”), Danish sø (“sea; lake”), Faroese sjógvur (“sea; big wave”), Icelandic sjár, sjór, sær (“sea”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk sjø (“sea, ocean; lake”), Swedish sjö (“sea; lake; big wave”), Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌹𐍅𐍃 (saiws, “lake, sea; marshland”).

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