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单词 sea
释义

sea

See also: SEA, Sea, and seâ

Translingual

Etymology

Most likely from English Semai

Symbol

sea

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

English

The sea.

Etymology

From Middle English see, from Old English sǣ (“sea”), from Proto-West Germanic *saiwi, from Proto-Germanic *saiwiz (compare West Frisian see, Dutch zee, German See, Danish sø, 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)[1] or derived from *sīhwaną (“to percolate, filter”), in which case *saiwiz is from earlier *saigwiz, Pre-Germanic *soykʷ-ís.[2]

Pronunciation

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

Noun

sea (plural seas)

  1. A large body of salt water.
    Synonym: (UK, nautical and navy) ogin
    • 1780, William Cowper, “Light Shining out of Darkneſs”, in Twenty-ſix Letters on Religious Subjects […] To which are added Hymns […] ‎, fourth edition, page 252:
      God moves in a myſterious way, / His wonders to perform; / He plants his footſteps in the ſea, / And rides upon the ſtorm.
    1. The ocean; the continuous body of salt water covering a majority of the Earth's surface.
      • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Leviticus 11:9, column 2:
        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.
      • 1719, Nicholas Rowe, “Book V”, in Lucan's Pharsalia: Translated into English Verse, Dublin: James Carson, page 183:
        At length the universal Wreck appear'd,/ To Cæsar's self, ev'n worthy to be fear'd./ Why all these Pains, this Toil of Fate (he cries)/ This Labour of the Seas, and Earth, and Skies?/ All Nature, and the Gods at once alarm'd,/ Against my little Boat and me are arm'd.
      • 1833, William Hazlitt, “Notes of a Journey Through France and Italy”, in Greenbank's Periodical Library, volume I, page 173:
        There is something in being near the sea, like the confines of eternity. It is a new element, a pure abstraction. The mind loves to hover on that which is endless, and forever the same. People wonder at a steam-boat, the invention of man, managed by man, that makes its liquid path like an iron railway through the sea—I wonder at the sea itself, that vast Leviathan, rolled round the earth, smiling in its sleep, waked into fury, fathomless, boundless, a huge world of water-drops.—Whence is it, whither goes it, is it of eternity, or of nothing?
      • 1922 March, J. S. Fletcher, “The Mystery of Ravensdene Court”, in Everybody's Magazine, volume XLVI, number 3, page 162:
        As we stood there watching, the long yellow light on the eastern horizon suddenly changed in color—first to a roseate flush, then to a warm crimson; the scenes round us, sky, sea, and land, brightened as if by magic.
    2. 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. A lake, especially if large or if salty or brackish.
    The Caspian Sea, the Sea of Galilee, the Salton Sea, etc.
  3. The swell of the sea; a single wave; billow.
    • 1792, William Bligh, chapter II, in A Voyage to the South Sea, […] in His Majesty’s Ship The Bounty, […], London: […] George Nicol, […], OCLC 3363691, page 14:
      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.
    • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, H.L. Brækstad, transl., Folk and Fairy Tales, page 187:
      "If they buy three cords of birch logs," said the witch, "but they must be exact measure and no bargaining about the price, and if they throw overboard the one cord of logs, piece by piece, when the first sea comes, and the other cord, piece by piece, when the second sea comes, and the third cord, piece by piece, when the third sea comes, then it's all over with us."
    • 1952, Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea:
      There was a small sea rising with the wind coming up from the east and at noon the old man's left hand was uncramped.
    • 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.
    Seaman, sea gauge, sea monster, sea horse, sea level, seaworthy, seaport, seaboard, etc.
  5. (figurative) Anything resembling the vastness or turbulence of the sea.
    • 1604, William Shakespeare, The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke‎, London: Nicholas Ling:
      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.
    • 1980, Patria Crone, Slaves on Horseback: The Evolution of the Islamic Polity, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN:
      Secondly, in terms of geopolitics Central Asia was a huge sea of barbarians set in the midst of interlocking continents. Thanks to its border on the Siberian forest in the north, it was open to barbarian incomers who would upset existing polities and set migrations going.
    • 2013 April 9, Andrei Lankov, “Stay Cool. Call North Korea’s Bluff.”, in New York Times‎:
      In the last two decades, North Korea has on various occasions conducted highly provocative missile and nuclear tests and promised to turn Seoul into a sea of fire.
  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.
    The Apollo 11 mission landed in the Sea of Tranquility.
  8. (planetology) A very large lake of liquid hydrocarbon.

Derived terms

Names of seas
  • Adriatic Sea
  • Aegean Sea
  • Baltic Sea
  • Barents Sea
  • Beaufort Sea
  • Bering Sea
  • Black Sea
  • Caribbean Sea
  • Caspian Sea
  • Celtic Sea
  • Coral Sea
  • Dead Sea
  • East Sea
  • German Sea
  • Greenland Sea
  • Inland Sea
  • Ionian Sea
  • Irish Sea
  • Java Sea
  • Kara Sea
  • Labrador Sea
  • Ligurian Sea
  • Mediterranean Sea
  • North Sea
  • Norwegian Sea
  • Philippine Sea
  • Red Sea
  • Ross Sea
  • Salt Sea
  • Sea of Azov
  • Sea of Galilee
  • Sea of Japan
  • Sea of Marmara
  • Sea of Okhotsk
  • Sea of Sodom
  • Sea of the Hebrides
  • South China Sea
  • Tasman Sea
  • Tyrrhenian Sea
  • Wadden Sea
  • Weddell Sea
Terms derived from sea (other)
  • Allhallows-on-Sea
  • Bexhill-on-Sea
  • Birchington-on-Sea
  • Caister-on-Sea
  • Carmel-by-the-Sea
  • deep sea
  • freedom of the seas
  • Frinton-on-Sea
  • Goring-by-Sea
  • Gorleston-on-Sea
  • Greatstone-on-Sea
  • high seas
  • Hopton-on-Sea
  • inland sea
  • Kingston by Sea
  • Knott End-on-Sea
  • Leysdown-on-Sea
  • Littlestone-on-Sea
  • marginal sea
  • Marske-by-the-Sea
  • mediterranean sea
  • Middleton-on-Sea
  • Milford-on-Sea
  • Minster-on-Sea
  • Newbiggin-by-the-Sea
  • Newton-by-the-Sea
  • open sea
  • put to sea
  • Saltburn-by-the-Sea
  • sea adder (Syngnathus acus)
  • sea anchor
  • sea anemone (Actiniaria)
  • sea angel
  • sea area
  • sea-based
  • seabed
  • seabird
  • seaboard
  • sea breeze
  • seacave
  • sea change, seachange
  • sea cow
  • sea cucumber (Holothuroidea)
  • sea dog, seadog
  • sea dragon
  • sea eagle (Haliaeetus)
  • seafarer
  • seafaring
  • seafloor
  • seafood
  • seafront
  • sea gooseberry
  • sea grape
  • seagrass
  • sea green
  • seagull (Laridae)
  • sea hare (Anaspidea)
  • sea hog (Phocoenidae)
  • sea horse (Hippocampus)
  • sea ice
  • sea lane
  • sea lemon
  • sea lettuce
  • sea level
  • sealife
  • sea link
  • sea lion, sealion (Otariidae)
  • sea liver (Eudistoma hepaticum)
  • sea loch
  • sealocked
  • sea louse (Caligidae)
  • sea mammal
  • seaman
  • Sea Mills
  • sea monster
  • seamount
  • sea nettle
  • sea otter (Enhydra lutris)
  • sea pineapple
  • sea pink
  • seaplane
  • Sea Point
  • sea pork (Aplidium stellatum)
  • seaport
  • sea potato
  • sea power, seapower
  • seaquake
  • searocket (Cakile)
  • sea room
  • sea sawdust (Trichodesmium)
  • seascape
  • sea shanty
  • seashell
  • seashore
  • seasick
  • seaside
  • sea slug (Nudibranchia)
  • seasnail (fish, Liparidae)
  • sea snail (snail)
  • sea snake
  • sea squirt (Ascidiacea)
  • sea stack
  • sea star (Asteroidea)
  • sea state
  • sea trout
  • sea urchin (Echinoidea)
  • sea vegetable
  • Seaview
  • seawater
  • seaway
  • seaweed
  • seawolf (Anarhichas lupus)
  • seaworthy
  • seven seas
  • ship a sea
  • Shoreham-by-Sea
  • short-sea shipping
  • St Leonards-on-Sea
  • Sutton on Sea
  • undersea
  • Westcliff-on-Sea
  • Westgate-on-Sea

Translations

body of water

See also

  • ocean

References

  1. Vladimir Orel, A Handbook of Germanic Etymology, s.v. "saiwiz" (Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2003), 314.
  2. Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

Further reading

  • sea on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • sea in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • sea in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911

Anagrams

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

Cimbrian

Etymology

From Middle High German sē, 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 sē, 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

Conjugation of sēa (strong)
presentpast
infinitivesēa—
participlesēandi, sēandesēþer
active voiceindicativesubjunctiveimperativeindicativesubjunctive
iæksērsē—sāsāghi, sāghe
þūsērsēsēsātsāghi, sāghe
hansērsē—sāsāghi, sāghe
vīrsēum, sēomsēum, sēomsēum, sēomsāghum, sāghomsāghum, sāghom
īrsēnsēnsēnsāghinsāghin
þērsēasēn—sāghu, -osāghin
mediopassive voiceindicativesubjunctiveimperativeindicativesubjunctive
iæksēssēs—sāssāghis, sāghes
þūsēssēs—sātssāghis, sāghes
hansēssēs—sāssāghis, sāghes
vīrsēums, -omssēums, sēoms—sāghums, sāghomssāghums, sāghoms
īrsēnssēns—sāghinssāghins
þērsēassēns—sāghus, sāghossāghins

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

  • 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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