单词 | deep sea |
释义 | deep seadeep-sean. The deeper part of the sea or ocean at a distance from the shore. Used attributively or as adj. : Of or belonging to the deep sea. deep-sea lead, deep-sea line, a head and line used for soundings in deep water. deep-sea fisheries, fisheries prosecuted at a distance from land, in which the fishermen are absent from home for a lengthened period. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > [noun] > ocean, open sea, or deep sea room seaeOE seawaya1000 the deepc1000 deptha1382 oceana1387 mid-sea?a1425 profound?a1425 main seaa1530 high seas1566 main1579 main flood1596 the deep1598 deep sea1626 dipsey1626 mid-ocean1697 blue water1803 haaf1809 salt chuck1868 wide1916 1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 29 Heaue the lead, try the dipsie line. 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. ix. 43 The Dipsie line..is a small line some hundred and fifty fadome long, with a long plummet at the end..which is first marked at twenty fadome, and after increased by tens to the end. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 13 Heaving our Dipsy-lead we were in soundings eighty Fathom depth. 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Transl. French Terms Sonder, to sound; to heave the hand-lead, or deep-sea-lead. 1835 J. Ross Narr. Second Voy. North-west Passage iv. 55 We now sounded with the deepsea lead every two hours. 1853 J. F. W. Herschel Pop. Lect. Sci. (1873) ii. §2. 48 Among deep-sea fishes. 1875 J. H. Bennet Winter & Spring Mediterranean (ed. 5) v. 128 The pioneer of deep-sea dredging, the late Edward Forbes. 1880 C. W. Thomson in Rep. Sci. Results Voy. H.M.S. Challenger: Zool. I. 50 Faunæ which have successively occupied the same deep-sea. 1887 E. J. Mather Nor'ard of Dogger (1889) (title) Nor'ard of the Dogger: the story of..the Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online December 2018). < |
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