Definition of Sea

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sea
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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Sea Definition from Computer & Internet Dictionaries & Glossaries

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Sea Definition from Government Dictionaries & Glossaries

DOD Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations
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Southeast Asia
  

International Relations and Security Acronyms
SEA
Southeast Asia


Sea Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Sea
(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.)
The ocean; the whole body of the salt water which covers a large part of the globe.
  
(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.)
Fig.: Anything resembling the sea in vastness; as, a sea of glory.
  
(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.)
A great brazen laver in the temple at Jerusalem; -- so called from its size.
  

WordNet 2.0
sea

Noun
1. a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land
(hypernym) body of water, water
(hyponym) Adriatic, Adriatic Sea
(part-holonym) hydrosphere
(part-meronym) bay
2. anything apparently limitless in quantity or volume
(synonym) ocean
(hypernym) large indefinite quantity, large indefinite amount
3. turbulent water with swells of considerable size; "heavy seas"
(hypernym) turbulent flow
(hyponym) head sea

Adjective
1. relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships; "sea stories"; "sea smells"; "sea traffic"
(synonym) sea(a)
(antonym) air(a)
(similar) deep-sea

The Phrase Finder
A sea change
Meaning
A radical, and apparently mystical, change.
Origin
From Shakespeare's The Tempest.

From sea to shining sea
Meaning
From one coast to another.
Origin
Taken from a line in 'America the Beautiful', the patriotic song written by Katharine Lee Bates in 1893. She wrote other versions later, in 1904 and 1913.
O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
She wrote the song following an inspirational visit to Pikes Peak, Colorado, USA.
"One day some of the other teachers and I decided to go on a trip to 14,000-foot Pikes Peak. We hired a prairie wagon. Near the top we had to leave the wagon and go the rest of the way on mules. I was very tired. But when I saw the view, I felt great joy. All the wonder of America seemed displayed there, with the sea-like expanse."
The phrase is also frequently associated with Canada. The Canadian national motto - "A mari usque ad mare", translates as "From sea to sea". This has biblical origin:
"He shall have dominion from sea to sea and from the river unto the ends of the earth (Psalm 72:8)".

This precious stone set in the silver sea, this sceptered isle
Origin
From Shakespeare's Richard II.

Australian Slang
Half-seas-over
intoxicated


Sea wasp
deadly box jellyfish

Silent like the P in swimming
pun on the word “pee”, used humorously to explain the pronunciation of words beginning with a silent “p”, such as “psalm”, “pseudo”, etc.

hEnglish - advanced version
sea

sea
\sea\ (?), n. [oe. see, as. s&aemacr;; akin to d. zee, os. & ohg. sēo, g. see, ofries. se, dan. s?, sw. sj?, icel. s?r, goth. saiws, and perhaps to l. saevus firce, savage. ? 151 a.]
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. the ocean; the whole body of the salt water which covers a large part of the globe. i marvel how the fishes live in the sea. ambiguous between sea and land the river horse and scaly crocodile.
4. 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.
5. (jewish antiq.) a great brazen laver in the temple at jerusalem; -- so called from its size. he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and five cubits the height thereof. iv. 2.
6. fig.: anything resembling the sea in vastness; as, a sea of glory. all the space was one sea of heads.
note: sea is often used in the composition of words of obvious signification; as, sea-bathed, sea-beaten, sea-bound, sea-bred, sea-circled, sealike, sea-nursed, sea-tossed, sea-walled, sea-worn, and the like. it is also used either adjectively or in combination with substantives; as, sea bird, sea-bird, or seabird, sea acorn, or sea-acorn.


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Concise English-Irish Dictionary v. 1.1
sea
fairrge f., muir f.
sea-: fairrge (ga.), mara (ga.)
salt water: sáile

JM Welsh <=> English Dictionary
Aber
Aber = n. m. the fall of one river into another, or into the sea, a confluence of water

Beisfor
Beisfor = n. a shallow sea

Cefnfor
Cefnfor = n. the main sea

Cornbig
Cornbig = n. a sea pike

Gwichiad
Gwichiad, Gwichiedyn = n. a periwinkle, or sea snail

Gwylan
Gwylan = n. a gull, a sea mew

Gwymon
Gwymon = n. sea weed

Hucan
Hucan = n. a cob, a sea fowl

Merydd
Merydd = n. what is sluggish; a plash; sluggard; sea sedge

Moelron
Moelron = n. a sea calf, a seal

Mono
Mono = v. to live at sea; to sail

Moradar
Moradar = n. sea fowls

Morbryf
Morbryf = n. a sea animal

Morbysg
Morbysg = n. sea fish

Mordaith
Mordaith = n. a sea voyage

Morddraenog
Morddraenog = n. sea urchin

Mordon
Mordon = n. a sea breaker

Mordwyo
Mordwyo = v. to go by sea

Morfa
Morfa = n. sea brink

Morfalwen
Morfalwen = n. a sea snail

Morfan
Morfan = n. sea shore strand

Morfarch
Morfarch = n. a sea horse

Morfil
Morfil = n. sea animal, whale

Morfin
Morfin = n. sea brink

Morfrwryn
Morfrwryn = n. the sea rushes

Morgant
Morgant = n. a sea brink

Morgaseg
Morgaseg = n. a sea breaker

Morgerwyn
Morgerwyn = n. a sea gulf

Morhedydd
Morhedydd = n. a sea lark

Morhesg
Morhesg = n. the sea sedge

Moriad
Moriad = n. a going by sea

Morlan
Morlan = n. a sea brink, a beach

Morlo
Morlo = n. a sea calf, a seal

Morlwch
Morlwch = n. a sea spray

Morneidr
Morneidr = n. a sea snake

Morwennol
Morwennol = n. a sea swallow

Moryd
Moryd = n. inlet of sea water

Morymdaith
Morymdaith = n. sea voyage

Myrwerydd
Myrwerydd = n. sea rushes

Sel
Sel = n. espying; distant view sea

Tostfrwyn
Tostfrwyn = n. sea rushes

Tramori
Tramori = v. to pass over sea

Ysgraell
Ysgraell, Ysgraen = n. the sea swallow

Ysnoden
Ysnoden = n. a fillet, a lace, a band. Ysnoden y mor, sea weeds


Sea Definition from Social Science Dictionaries & Glossaries

Dream Dictionary
Sea
To dream of hearing the lonely sighing of the sea, foretells that you will be fated to spend a weary and unfruitful life devoid of love and comradeship.

Dreams of the sea, prognosticate unfulfilled anticipations, while pleasures of a material form are enjoyed, there is an inward craving for pleasure that flesh cannot requite.

For a young woman to dream that she glides swiftly over the sea with her lover, there will come to her sweet fruition of maidenly hopes, and joy will stand guard at the door of the consummation of changeless vows.

See Ocean.
  

Dream Quotations
George William Curtis
I walked beside the evening sea
And dreamed a dream that could not be;
The waves that plunged along the shore
Said only: Dreamer, dream no more!
  

Phobia
Thalassophobia
Fear of ocean

Dream Symbols
Sea
Life, spirituality (more) ; Dirty or polluted: circulatory system


Sea Definition from Religion & Spirituality Dictionaries & Glossaries

Rakefet
Oceanus
Oceanus okeanos (Greek) Probably "swift-flowing"; according to Hesiod one of the titans, children of Ouranos and Gaia (heaven and earth), who by his marriage with the titan Tethys became father of all rivers and waters. In ancient exoteric geography he was himself a mighty river encircling the supposedly flat disk of the earth; the notion of a vast reservoir of stationary water is derivative and does not pertain to the original meaning.
The original idea of Oceanus parallels that contained in the Hindu Puranas concerning the various oceans and islands which surround the earth. Oceanus at first was the ocean of space, which the Hebrews called the waters of space, surrounding all celestial bodies. The reference is likewise to the invisible realms and spheres which mystical thought often grouped under the idea of an environing as well as interpenetrating system of fluid spheres or worlds, the meaning behind the oceans and islands of the Puranas. Ancient Greek mythology states that on the banks of Oceanus are the abodes of the dead, making clear that the reference is not to physical geography but to secret teaching dealing with both the Overworld and the Underworld, with the invisible spheres, planes, and realms of the universe.


Space
Space Usually the universe as perceived by our physical senses. It is disputed whether space exists apart from objects or is a property of objects, and also whether it is objective or subjective. Such difficulties arise from our attempt to abstract extension from the reality of which it is an aspect, just as we attempt to abstract matter and energy. The physical basis of our universe appears under these three aspects, and the attempt to conceive each of the three as separate existences and to construct the universe out of them is to court contradiction and to proceed in the inverse order.
In most arguments about the nature of space, space is unconsciously assumed at the outset of the inquiry, so that the reasoning becomes viciously circular. Is space the ultimate residue left after we have removed everything conceivable? In that case how can we define it in terms of anything which is supposed to be derived from it? We must either leave it undefined, as a primary postulate, or else define it in terms of something which lies beyond the physical plane altogether.
Again, the question whether the dimensions belong to space or to material objects arises from a false separation between these two, so that we speak of objects being in space, just as we speak of life as being in matter.We think of space as an absence of matter, as we think of darkness as an absence of light, and silence as absence of sound; and having thus created vacuums we proceed to fill them. In the view of occultism it would be nearer the truth to say that light is the absence of darkness, sound the absence of silence, and matter a form of the presence of space;
to be continue "Space2 "

Thalatth
Thalatth, Thallath (Chaldean) Thalassa (Greek) Sea, ocean; mystically the great generative principle of the spatial deeps. Thallath was the sea, personified as a goddess in the cosmogony of Berosus; used as one of the names of the great deep or abyss, Tiamat, or Chaos. It could breed only monsters, but was destroyed by Belus, and then the gods created heaven and earth. The reference is to the mystical waters of space, or the more concrete aspect of space itself, as the great source or womb of cosmic manifestation, out of which all things come and into which at the end of the cosmic manvantara all things again return. The moon is connected in its cosmogonical function with the waters of space.
Also called Omoroka, which is the reflection in Tamti (matter) of divine wisdom.

Easton's Bible Dictionary
Sea
(Heb. yam), signifies (1) "the gathering together of the waters," the ocean (Gen. 1:10); (2) a river, as the Nile (Isa. 19:5), the Euphrates (Isa. 21:1; Jer. 51:36); (3) the Red Sea (Ex. 14:16, 27; 15:4, etc.); (4) the Mediterranean (Ex. 23:31; Num. 34:6, 7; Josh. 15:47; Ps. 80:11, etc.); (5) the "sea of Galilee," an inland fresh-water lake, and (6) the Dead Sea or "salt sea" (Gen. 14:3; Num. 34:3, 12, etc.). The word "sea" is used symbolically in Isa. 60:5, where it probably means the nations around the Mediterranean. In Dan. 7:3, Rev. 13:1 it may mean the tumultuous changes among the nations of the earth.

Smith's Bible Dictionary
Sea

The sea, yam, is used in Scripture to denote-
→ "The gathering of the waters," "the Ocean." (Genesis 1:2,10; 30:13) etc.
→ Some portion of this, as the Mediterranean Sea, called the "hinder," the "western" and the "utmost" sea, (11:24; 34:2; Joel 2:20) "sea of the Philistines," (Exodus 23:31) "the great sea," (Numbers 36:6,7; Joshua 15:47) "the sea." Genesis49:13; Psal 80:11 Also frequently of the Red Sea. (Exodus 15:4) See: Red Sea SEA
→ Inland lakes termed seas, as the Salt or Dead Sea. See: See the special article
→ Any great collection of waters, as the river Nile (Isaiah 19:5) and the Euphrates. (Jeremiah 51:36)
  

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
Pontus
the sea
  


Sea Definition from Science & Technology Dictionaries & Glossaries

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Oceanographic, Meteorologal & Climatologal abbreviations and acronyms
SEA
Superposed Epoch Analysis

Physical Geography Terms and Meanings
Sea
Level The average surface elevation of the world's oceans.


Sea Definition from Society & Culture Dictionaries & Glossaries

Environmental Engineering (English ver.)
SEA
(1) One of the larger bodies of salt water, less than an ocean, more or less landlocked and generally forming part of, or connecting with, an ocean or a larger sea. (2) An inland body of water, especially if large or if salty or brackish.

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Sea Definition from Sports Dictionaries & Glossaries

maritime&shipping&trade
SEA
Single European Act


Sea Definition from Arts & Humanities Dictionaries & Glossaries

English-Latin Online Dictionary
sea
mare maris


Sea Definition from Entertainment & Music Dictionaries & Glossaries

English to Federation-Standard Golic Vulcan
Sea
masutra


Sea Definition from Business & Finance Dictionaries & Glossaries

Company Info: Ticker, Name, Description
SEA
Bio-Aqua Systems
Exchange: AMEX
Holding company with subsidiary which produces various products for animal nutrition, including fish meal, feather meal and krill meal.

SCR/A
SEA CONTAINERS LTD
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SEA CONTAINERS LTD
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Sea Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries

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SEA
The three-letter acronym SEA may refer to:

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Sea
This article is about the body of water. For other uses, see SEA and seas. For the ancient Jewish unit of volume, see Seah (unit). For the Smirnoff advertising campaign, see Sea (Smirnoff advert)
A sea is either a large expanse of saline water connected with an ocean, or a large, usually saline, lake that lacks a natural outlet such as the Caspian Sea and the Dead Sea. The term is used colloquially as synonymous with ocean, as in "the tropical sea" or "down to the sea shore", or even "sea water" to refer to water of the ocean. Large lakes, such as the Great Lakes, are sometimes referred to as inland seas. Many seas are marginal seas, in which currents are caused by ocean winds; others are mediterranean seas, in which currents are caused by differences in salinity and temperature.

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