noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a sea/ocean breeze
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The boats were moving up and down in the sea breeze.
a sea/ocean view (= a view of the sea )
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I’d like a room with a sea view.
an ocean/sea/river current
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Ocean currents carry young fish out to sea.
ocean liner
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an ocean liner
the ocean waves (= the sea )
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They spent a week on the ocean waves on a cruise ship.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
deep
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According to soundings made in the surrounding ocean , there are some very deep ocean trenches in the sea around the island.
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In the event of an impact in deep ocean , rock ejection would be minimized and water would be thrown great distances.
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Between geologist and geology there lies a daunting barrier: the deep and rolling ocean .
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Once upon a time, Triton had been a gigantic deity, ruling the deep ocean of the unknown.
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Records from the deep oceans show that major global climatic and environmental change is nothing new in our history.
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In the abyssal murk of the deep ocean floor, miles below the surface, no light penetrates.
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The deepest part of the deep ocean is totally black, without light.
great
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Like him, I knew that this great and peaceful ocean was out there somewhere.
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These shells, which came from the great oceans , impart sacred knowledge.
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They're the few surviving scrolls of our ancestors who travelled from the great oceans .
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In my hand I clutch - ... But the great grave ocean comes climbing up the beach.
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It could transform any pain, a great ocean to her hurt.
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And all souls are one in the great ocean of the Supreme Consciousness, the Lord.
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Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?
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Now there is nothing but the great ocean .
large
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The Anadyr once plied the world's largest ocean , supplying Soviet warships.
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The three largest ocean liners in the world could have sat atop its crest like bathtub toys.
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And the margin both times was as large as the ocean that separates the countries.
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Then he went to a big plastic fish box, and hauled out a large red ocean fish.
open
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The dominant plants of the open ocean , then, are single-celled plants.
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Some researchers are skeptical, however, that this could be enough to affect large waves in the open ocean .
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Through most of the summer, then, the plankton in open ocean is gradually depleted.
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Keoni was born south-east of us, in the open ocean not far from Midway Island.
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Once we're past it we can turn out to the open ocean .
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These figures refer to the size of free waves in the open ocean .
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Parts of the open ocean are so pure as to support little life.
vast
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Some attributed each crater to a bursting giant bubble of gases escaping from a vast ocean of magma.
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You could get seasick at the top watching the clouds scudding across a full moon in a vast ocean of space.
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Larvae may immediately become bottom dwellers or pelagic for a short period to be broadcast over vast distances by ocean currents.
wide
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A wide ocean with a small island here and there.
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Between them formed several long, narrow lakes and then, as the rift deepened, a wide ocean channel.
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They would be useless on a voyage on the wide ocean , and anyhow the coastal charts would soon grow mildewed.
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And, of course, if the capsize happened in the wide ocean , then the crew was in real trouble.
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But her eyes were wide as the oceans , and worlds beyond human ken drifted there.
■ NOUN
basin
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The two peaks in the distribution represent the continental platforms and the ocean basins .
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We may therefore take 200 million years as some sort of an upper limit to the age of an ocean basin .
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These sea-level fluctuations must therefore have been produced by changes in the cubic capacity of the ocean basins .
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Although the surface of the ocean basins is relatively uniform it is punctuated in places by volcanoes.
crust
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They are similar to the lavas from which the Earth's ocean crusts are made, but much older.
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At the beginning of each belt was a mid-ocean ridge, where new ocean crust was made.
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Judging from the minerals present in the mass of water, it appeared to have spurted out of the ocean crust .
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Like a bulldozer, it plowed rock off the ocean crust that was descending and piled it into hills along its edge.
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Where the ocean crust is young, lava flows dominate the landscape.
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Somehow these shallow reservoirs must provide the stuff that makes new ocean crust .
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These might consist of old ocean crust or material from one of the boundary layers.
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The cold, bottom water that percolates down into the cracks in the ocean crust carries its own complement of chemicals.
current
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A direct and obvious example is that many marine animals are dispersed around the globe by ocean currents .
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Factoring in the effects of ocean currents , fickle winds, and errors in judgment, he then determined his longitude.
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The ocean currents flow around these in the same way that winds blow around high and low centres of atmospheric pressure.
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Some believe that it is because of unusually strong cold ocean currents , which improve the chances of penguins surviving the journey.
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No more than 0.1% drives the wind, waves and ocean currents and a minute 0.03% is consumed in photosynthesis.
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But ocean currents , wind and tides stir the waters.
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Larvae may immediately become bottom dwellers or pelagic for a short period to be broadcast over vast distances by ocean currents .
depth
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Life in the ocean depths poses many special problems, requiring special adaptations.
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Man is a wellspring; woman an ocean depth .
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Monsters, stirred from the lightless ocean depths by the sinking of the lands, sometimes come ashore here in search of prey.
floor
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These are rocket-shaped projectiles loaded with vitrified waste, and dumped from ships to plunge into soft sediments on the ocean floor .
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Looking down through my mask at the ocean floor , I saw an old motorcycle, probably from the fifties.
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Small sea organisms bind these marine minerals into their body structures, which then fall to the ocean floor upon their death.
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Amid the barren ocean floor swarmed legions of bizarre, new animals.
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The ocean floor was the tape slowly and symmetrically drifting away from either side of the ridge.
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About 100 tons of contaminated sediments still lie on the ocean floor .
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Here, perhaps, all the ocean floor material has been carried up into the mountains.
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The giant bivalves jammed the cracks between the black tufts of lava that covered the ocean floor .
liner
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These multi-purpose, leisure-park hotels look under siege like huge ocean liners in trouble at sea.
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Farther west is the Hudson River, creating the illusion that ocean liners occasionally sail down the street.
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There are, however, still many opportunities to see ocean liners arriving at and departing from the island.
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It features a two-story newsroom, a lobby decorated like a 1930s ocean liner and a Mount Vernon-style cupola on the roof.
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Their obsessive story is told in graphic detail as they sail merrily along on an ocean liner .
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Nigel Davis reports on an industry whose products protect both an ocean liner and a girl's dress.
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The three largest ocean liners in the world could have sat atop its crest like bathtub toys.
surface
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In winter when the sun is low or absent, primary production at the ocean surface is minimal.
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From here I watch a patrol of pelicans skim the ocean surface while waves crash against the rocks.
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Because of these fundamental properties of ocean surface waves, they are capable of delivering their punch over enormous distances.
view
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Landscaping will include waterworks, a reference to the ocean view the museum will enjoy.
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The home is on slightly more than an acre with ocean views .
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Situated in a high-rise built about five years ago, the unit also has city-to-ocean views .
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The ocean view was available through a wall-wide greasy window that admitted the ocean wind as well.
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Other parks have more spectacular scenery, higher mountains or ocean views , but Yellowstone is the place for animals.
voyage
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Excellent condition for a big ocean voyage .
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They'd played by the rules and made what was often an unpleasant ocean voyage that cost them most of their savings.
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The international network, at least for the Western imperial system, added a long ocean voyage between two rail journeys.
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What if Juan Miguel had taken the boy on a dangerous ocean voyage without telling Elizabeth.
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Jack grinned and shook hands, looking like an ad for what an ocean voyage can do for the complexion.
water
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The high ridge displaces ocean water .
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Small hermit crabs are readily available where there is ocean water and their value as scavengers makes them worth considering.
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Nor is large-scale desalination of ocean water economical.
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The ocean water emerging from the vent thus has an entirely different chemical makeup than the water that went into it.
wave
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And when they got into difficulties in the rolling ocean waves , the whales came to their rescue.
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In one elevator, a small electronic picture keeps an ocean wave on the move.
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The average ocean wave is five feet in height.
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On some nights, I would pretend the sounds were ocean waves and I was in a mansion on a nameless beach.
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Provision for students with special needs can be viewed as analogous to a small ship on the ocean waves .
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Have you ever seen an ocean wave pass over a submerged reef?
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Officials said there was no immediate threat of tsunami, a seismic ocean wave , which could be catastrophic to the area.
■ VERB
cross
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For this I would most certainly cross oceans , let alone forgo a couple of treatments.
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For years and years they crossed rivers and oceans to find the Simorgh, that fabulous creature, radiant and dazzling.
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The plane crossed the wine-dark ocean with very few passengers aboard.
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According to Nissenbaum, this ritual never crossed the ocean .
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In other references dhamma is the raft on which men may cross the ocean of existence to the farther shore of Nirvana.
live
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Hard to get, that is, if you lived on the ocean floor and had been locked in a safe.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a drop in the ocean
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The United States pledge of $100 million to the rainforest fund is a drop in the ocean.
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Third World debt is so massive that recent pledges to reduce or forgive it are just a drop in the bucket.
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With 2m men and women in uniform, a 60,000-strong force is just a drop in the ocean.
the depths of the ocean/countryside/forest etc
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Illegal activity is not limited to the depths of the forest.
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So the depths of the oceans are full of lights moving rhythmically around and continually turning off and on.
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The sporadic gunfire, explosions and shouting in the depths of the forest, seemed to belong to a different world.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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About 100 tons of contaminated sediments still lie on the ocean floor.
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Amid the barren ocean floor swarmed legions of bizarre, new animals.
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Everything was hygienically sluiced away by the ocean .
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It is also worth thinking about the possibility that rearrangements of the continents and oceans would themselves have considerable climatic effects.
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Obviously if we close up the ocean again, the resemblances would not be so startling.
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These shells, which came from the great oceans, impart sacred knowledge.
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You could get seasick at the top watching the clouds scudding across a full moon in a vast ocean of space.
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You think I let her scare me about that ocean ?