A sea generally refers to a large body of salt water, but the term is used in other contexts as well. Most commonly, it means a large expanse of saline water connected with an ocean, and is commonly used as a synonym for ocean. It is also used sometimes to describe a large saline lake that lacks a natural outlet, such as the Caspian Sea.
Arctic (belonging to the Arctic Ocean) and Antarctic (Southern Ocean) seas, as well as some other seas freeze ...
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- Persian Gulf ,
- North Sea ,
- Mediterranean Sea ,
- Aegean Sea ,
- Adriatic Sea ,
- Arabian Sea ,
- Baltic Sea ,
- Black Sea ,
- Caspian Sea ,
- Caribbean Sea
Quotations About This Subject:
- Wide sea, that one continuous murmur breeds along the pebbled shore of memory! ,
- The sea -- this truth must be confessed -- has no generosity. No display of manly qualities -- courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness -- has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power. ,
- The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don't always know if it is green or violet, you can't even say it's blue, because the next moment the changing reflection has taken on a tint of rose or gray. ,
- As usual I finish the day before the sea, sumptuous this evening beneath the moon, which writes Arab symbols with phosphorescent streaks on the slow swells. There is no end to the sky and the waters. How well they accompany sadness! ,
- The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it... Beware of me, it says, but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands. ,
- There is hope from the sea, but none from the grave. ,
- The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness. ,
- When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land. ,
- There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates. ,
- I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began.
