Definition of "sea" in Anglais

noun

1. A large body of salt water.

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

   • The Caspian Sea, the Sea of Galilee, the Salton Sea, etc.

3. A single wave; billow.

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

   • 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...

5. (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.

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

7. (physics) A constant flux of gluons splitting into quarks, which annihilate to produce further gluons.

8. (planetology) A large, dark plain of rock; a mare.

   • The Apollo 11 mission landed in the Sea of Tranquility.

9. (planetology) A very large lake of liquid hydrocarbon.