ocean

I

(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

n. sea (see water).

II

(Roget's IV) n.

Syn. sea, Great sea, high seas, salt water, seashore, seaside, beach, shores, Oceanus, Neptune, the mighty deep, the main, the Great waters, the Seven Seas, mare, big pond*, puddle*, briny deep*, Davy Jones' locker*, the cradle of the deep*; see also sea .

Oceans of the world include: Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic, Antarctic, Indian, North Atlantic, South Atlantic, North Pacific, South Pacific.

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.

sea, the deep, the abyss, deep blue sea, brine, *the drink, *Davy Jones locker, high seas, the seven seas, *bounding main, Neptune, Poseidon, expanse, *unbridgeable horizon, Arctic, Antarctic, Atlantic, North Atlantic, South Atlantic, Pacific, North Pacific, South Pacific, Indian. ''The wavy waste.''—Thomas Hood. ''A highway between the doorways of the nations.''— Franklin Lane.

WORD FIND

• bottom and its creatures: benthic realm, benthos

• bottom, one region of: province

• circular currents: gyres

• current of Atlantic: Gulf Stream

• current of Pacific that disrupts weather patterns: El Niño

• depression in floor: cauldron

• depth between one hundred and one thousand meters: bathyal zone

• depth between one thousand and six thousand meters: abyssal zone

• depth from six thousand meters down: hadal zone

• depth, greatest trench: Marianas Trench

• depth measurement of six feet: fathom

• eddy that breaks off from main current: meander, ring

• flat calm, no wind region: doldrums

• foam: spume

• glow of sea creatures: bioluminescence

• god: Neptune

• graveyards of ships: Bermuda Triangle, graveyard of the Atlantic

• hills: abyssal hills

• measurement of depth: bathymetry, sounding

• mile, nautical: 6,082.2 feet

• mountain chain in Atlantic: mid-Atlantic ridge

• mountain chain in Pacific: Emperor Seamounts

• mountain: seamount

• seaweed region in North Atlantic: Sargasso Sea

• sediment deposit, large offshore: submarine fan

• shallow area, navigational hazard: shoal

• spray: spindrift

• study of: oceanography

• tide, maximal low and high: spring tide

• tide, minimal low and high: neap tide

• turbulence involving bottom mud: benthic storm

• waves, crash and crest of opposing: cross seas

• waves: plunger, spiller, graybeard, swell, eagre (tidal bore), tsunami

• wave, tidal: tsunami wind distance and relationship to wave

• height: fetch

see beach