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ocean 音標拼音: ['oʃən] n. 洋,海洋;許多,大量 洋,海洋;許多,大量 ocean海洋 ocean n 1: a large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere 2: anything apparently limitless in quantity or volume [ synonym: { ocean}, { sea}] Ocean \ O" cean\ ([= o]" shan), a. Of or pertaining to the main or great sea; as, the ocean waves; an ocean stream. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster]
Ocean \ O" cean\ ([= o]" shan), n. [ F. oc[' e] an, L. oceanus, Gr. ' wkeano` s ocean, in Homer, the great river supposed to encompass the earth.] 1. The whole body of salt water which covers more than three fifths of the surface of the globe; -- called also the { sea}, or { great sea}. [ 1913 Webster] Like the odor of brine from the ocean Comes the thought of other years. -- Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster] 2. 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. [ 1913 Webster] 3. An immense expanse; any vast space or quantity without apparent limits; as, the boundless ocean of eternity; an ocean of affairs. -- Locke. [ 1913 Webster] You' re gonna need an ocean Of calamine lotion. -- Lieber & Stoller ( Poison Ivy: song lyrics, 1994) [ PJC] 45 Moby Thesaurus words for " ocean": abundance, acres, bags, barrels, blue, brine, briny, bushel, copiousness, countlessness, deep, drink, flood, gobs, high seas, load, loads, lots, main, mass, mountain, much, multitude, numerousness, oceans, oodles, peck, plenitude, plenty, plethora, profusion, quantities, quantity, scads, sea, spate, superabundance, superfluity, the briny, the deep, the depths, tons, volume, world, worlds |
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