sea🔊

(Q165)A large body of salt water. +

The ocean; the continuous body of salt water covering a majority of the Earth's surface.

A body of salt water smaller than an ocean, generally forming part of, or connecting with, an ocean or a larger sea.

A lake, especially if large or if salty or brackish.

A single wave; billow.

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

(in combination) Living or used in or on the sea; of, near, or like the sea.

(figurative) Anything resembling the vastness or turbulence of the sea in mass, size or quantity.

(physics) A constant flux of gluons splitting into quarks, which annihilate to produce further gluons.

(planetology) A large, dark plain of rock; a mare.

(planetology) A very large lake of liquid hydrocarbon.