sea

noun

1. A large body of salt water.

   “God moves in a myſterious way, / His wonders to perform; / He plants his footſteps in the ſea, / And rides upon the ſtorm.”

2. A large body of salt water.

   “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.”

   “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.”

   “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.”

3. A large body of salt water.

   “The Mediterranean Sea, the Caribbean Sea, the Sea of Crete, etc.”

4. A lake, especially if large or if salty or brackish.

   “The Caspian Sea, the Sea of Galilee, the Salton Sea, etc.”

5. A single wave; billow.

   “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.”

   “'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.'”

6. The swell of the sea, especially when high or rough.

   ““Where can they be?” he cried. “They cannot have gone down, for there has been no sea, and they were afloat after the yacht sank—I saw them all.””

   “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...”

7. (attributive, in-compounds)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.”

8. (figuratively)Anything resembling the vastness or turbulence of the sea in mass, size or quantity.

   “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; […]”

   “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.”

   “The beck is crossed by a pretty ford and a number of bridges, and in spring the cottages look out over a dancing sea of daffodils.”

   “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.”

9. A constant flux of gluons splitting into quarks, which annihilate to produce further gluons.
10. A large, dark plain of rock; a mare.

    “The Apollo 11 mission landed in the Sea of Tranquility.”

11. A very large lake of liquid hydrocarbon.
12. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of Strategic Environmental Assessment.

name

1. (abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of Seattle.
2. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of Southeast Asia.
3. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of Single European Act.
4. (countable, uncountable)A surname.
5. (countable, uncountable)A hamlet in Ilminster parish, South Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST3413).
6. Synonym of Mediterranean Sea.