Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The entire body of salt water that covers more than 70 percent of the earth's surface.
- noun Any of the principal divisions of the ocean, including the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic, and Southern Oceans.
- noun A great expanse or amount.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The body of water which envelops the earth, and covers almost three fourths of its surface with a mean depth — as nearly as can be estimated at the present time — of less than 12,500 feet.
- noun Something likened to the ocean; also, a great quantity: as, an ocean of trouble.
- Of or pertaining to the main or great sea.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the main or great sea
- noun The whole body of salt water which covers more than three fifths of the surface of the globe; -- called also the
sea , orgreat sea . - noun One of the large bodies of water into which the great ocean is regarded as divided, as the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic and Antarctic
oceans . - noun An immense expanse; any vast space or quantity without apparent limits
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun countable One of the five large bodies of
water separating the continents. - noun uncountable Water belonging to an ocean.
- noun figuratively An immense expanse; any vast space or quantity without apparent limits.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun anything apparently limitless in quantity or volume
- noun a large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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And, of course, the ocean is the perfect place to hide.
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Like birds plunging into the ocean is a sign of baitfish.
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Pushing your luck on the ocean is a terrible idea, Things can go wrong so fast out there, and when offshore like they were, no one is around to get your butt out of a sticky situation.
An Ugly Way To Die 2009
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If dropping iron dust into the ocean is a great idea, then let's just get on with it.
Free Market or Artificial Market?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Coming from the hills of North GA to the ocean is a huge treat.
The Call of the Surf 2009
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Coming from the hills of North GA to the ocean is a huge treat.
The Call of the Surf 2009
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Pushing your luck on the ocean is a terrible idea, Things can go wrong so fast out there, and when offshore like they were, no one is around to get your butt out of a sticky situation.
An Ugly Way To Die 2009
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Somewhere on this ocean is a ship that's heading right for us.
Bunches of Knuckles 2010
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Like birds plunging into the ocean is a sign of baitfish.
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I realize that the ocean is the worlds largest heat sink, but if you were to put a few thousand of these in the gulf of mexico, I would think it would affect oceanic life by dramatically changing the temperature at depth.
Artificial Energy Islands Could Power The World | Inhabitat 2008
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When Cambridge Analytica contracted Aleksandr Kogan of Cambridge University for its psychographics project, it was to implement a digital survey on Facebook that would, like the Big 5 Inventory but adapted into the form of an online quiz, capture intimate personal data on users’ ‘openness’, ‘conscientiousness’, ‘extroversion’, ‘agreeableness’ and ‘neuroticism’ (OCEAN).
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chained_bear commented on the word ocean
The H.M.S. Ocean was listed as a "transport" captured at Yorktown in 1781. I wonder if, when it was sailing the Atlantic, it was camouflaged.
October 29, 2007