sea
IPA: sˈi
noun
- 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.
- The swell of the sea; a single wave; billow.
- (attributive, 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.
- (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.
- A surname.
- A hamlet in Ilminster parish, South Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST3413).
- (sports) Abbreviation of Seattle. [A seaport and the largest city in Washington, United States, and the county seat of King County.]
- Initialism of Southeast Asia. [A subregion of Asia, comprising the territories of Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar (Burma), the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.]
- Initialism of Single European Act.
- Initialism of Strategic Environmental Assessment.
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Examples of "sea" in Sentences
- The sound of the crashing waves filled the air as we walked along the sandy shore by the sea
- The sea sparkled under the warm sun, beckoning swimmers to dive in and cool off
- Sailboats dotted the horizon, gliding gracefully across the shimmering sea
- Seagulls flew overhead, calling out as they searched for fish in the deep blue sea
- The salty sea air filled our lungs, invigorating us as we sat on the rocks and watched the tide roll in
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