Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The salt water of the sea or ocean. See
ocean .
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Examples
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Current thinking is that that rise is caused mostly by sea-water expansion from increasing temperature and by the runoff of water from the melting of glaciers and ice sheets.
Bill Chameides: Where Has All The Water Gone? Bill Chameides 2010
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Current thinking is that that rise is caused mostly by sea-water expansion from increasing temperature and by the runoff of water from the melting of glaciers and ice sheets.
Bill Chameides: Where Has All The Water Gone? Bill Chameides 2010
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Current thinking is that that rise is caused mostly by sea-water expansion from increasing temperature and by the runoff of water from the melting of glaciers and ice sheets.
Bill Chameides: Where Has All The Water Gone? Bill Chameides 2010
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Current thinking is that that rise is caused mostly by sea-water expansion from increasing temperature and by the runoff of water from the melting of glaciers and ice sheets.
Bill Chameides: Where Has All The Water Gone? Bill Chameides 2010
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Current thinking is that that rise is caused mostly by sea-water expansion from increasing temperature and by the runoff of water from the melting of glaciers and ice sheets.
Bill Chameides: Where Has All The Water Gone? Bill Chameides 2010
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Some whales double their weight when straining sea-water
Boing Boing 2009
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Again, as the Elsinore dipped by the head and fetched a surge of sea-water from aft along the runway, I saw the dark object bound for'ard directly at the mates.
CHAPTER XXXV 2010
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Brought up from the wreck was a journal, so torn and mushed and pulped by the sea-water, with ink so run about, that scarcely any of it was decipherable.
Chapter 15 2010
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Diamonds and rubies are gone, spread out on the deck to be washed away by a bucket of sea-water, and he does not even know that the diamonds and rubies are gone.
Chapter 6 2010
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Current thinking is that that rise is caused mostly by sea-water expansion from increasing temperature and by the runoff of water from the melting of glaciers and ice sheets.
Bill Chameides: Where Has All The Water Gone? Bill Chameides 2010
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