sea

sea

synonyms, antonyms, definitions, examples & translations of sea in English

English Online Dictionary. What means sea‎? What does sea mean?

Translingual

Etymology

Most likely from English Semai

Symbol

sea

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Semai.

English

Etymology

From Middle English see, from Old English (sea), from Proto-West Germanic *saiwi, from Proto-Germanic *saiwiz (compare West Frisian see, Dutch zee, German See, Danish , Norwegian Bokmål sjø, Swedish sjö), probably either from Proto-Indo-European *sh₂ey-wo- (to be fierce, afflict) (compare Latin saevus (wild, fierce), Tocharian B saiwe (itch), Latvian sievs, sīvs (sharp, biting); more at sore) or derived from *sīhwaną (to percolate, filter), in which case *saiwiz is from earlier *saigwiz, Pre-Germanic *soykʷ-ís.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: , IPA(key): /siː/
  • (obsolete) enPR: , IPA(key): /seɪ/
  • Homophones: C, cee, see
  • Rhymes: -iː

Noun

sea (plural seas)

  1. A large body of salt water.
    Synonym: (UK, nautical and navy) ogin
    1. The ocean; the continuous body of salt water covering a majority of the Earth's surface.
    2. A body of salt water smaller than an ocean, generally forming part of, or connecting with, an ocean or a larger sea.
  2. A lake, especially if large or if salty or brackish.
  3. The swell of the sea; a single wave; billow.
    • 2020 June 8, National Weather Service Boston, 2:38 PM EDT marine forecast
      High pressure will maintain light winds and flat seas through Tue night. ... Potential for briefly choppy 3 ft seas near South Coast...
  4. (attributive, in combination) Living or used in or on the sea; of, near, or like the sea.
  5. (figurative) Anything resembling the vastness or turbulence of the sea.
  6. (physics) A constant flux of gluons splitting into quarks, which annihilate to produce further gluons.
  7. (planetology) A large, dark plain of rock; a mare.
  8. (planetology) A very large lake of liquid hydrocarbon.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

  • ocean

See also

  • Sea-Tac

References

Further reading

  • sea on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • “sea”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “sea”, in The Century Dictionary [], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • -ase, AES, ASE, EAS, EAs, ESA, Esa, SAE, a**es, aes, ase, eas, esa

Cimbrian

Etymology

From Middle High German , from Old High German sēo, from Proto-West Germanic *saiwi, from Proto-Germanic *saiwiz (sea, ocean). Cognate with German See, English sea.

Noun

sea m

  1. (Luserna) lake

References

  • Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Estonian

Noun

sea

  1. genitive singular of siga

Garo

Verb

sea

  1. to write

Derived terms

  • segipa

Irish

Alternative forms

  • seadh (superseded)

Etymology

is + ea (literally, "it is")

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃa/

Adverb

sea

  1. yes (to copula questions)
  2. right, well (topic introducer)

Usage notes

This is a contraction of an affirmative response to a question, and is found in response to questions where the key verb is is or a present tense form thereof:

Q: An féidir leat cuidiú liom? — "Can you help me?" (literally, "Possible for you to help me?")
A: Sea. — "Yes."

Informally it may also be found as the answer to a question with a main verb, though this is considered incorrect. The standard response to such a question is to repeat the verb:

Q: Ar chuala tú mé? — "Did you hear me?"
A: Chuala. — "Yes" (literally, "Heard") or informally Sea.

Antonyms

  • ní hea
  • nach ea

Middle English

Noun

sea

  1. Alternative form of see (sea)

Mòcheno

Etymology

From Middle High German , from Old High German sēo, from Proto-West Germanic *saiwi, from Proto-Germanic *saiwiz (sea, ocean). Cognate with German See, English sea.

Noun

sea m

  1. lake

References

  • “sea” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

Old Irish

Determiner

sea

  1. Alternative spelling of so

Old Swedish

Alternative forms

  • sīa

Etymology

From Old Norse séa (West Norse sjá), from Proto-Germanic *sehwaną.

Verb

sēa

  1. to see

Conjugation

Descendants

  • Swedish: se, sia

Plautdietsch

Adverb

sea

  1. very, intensely

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsea/ [ˈse.a]
  • Rhymes: -ea
  • Syllabification: se‧a

Verb

sea

  1. inflection of ser:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

See also

  • aunque sea
  • maldita sea
  • o sea

Tongan

Etymology

Borrowed from English chair.

Noun

sea

  1. chair

Wolio

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *səjəm.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sea/

Noun

sea

  1. ant

References

  • Anceaux, Johannes C. (1987) Wolio Dictionary (Wolio-English-Indonesian) / Kamus Bahasa Wolio (Wolio-Inggeris-Indonesia), Dordrecht: Foris

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