ocean
noun/ˈəʊʃn/
Слово англійською: ocean
Переклад ocean українською: океан
Детальний опис
- (usually the ocean)[singular] (especially North American English) the mass of salt water that covers most of the earth’s surface
- The ship was dredged from the depths of the ocean.
- People were swimming in the ocean despite the hurricane warning.
- The plane hit the ocean several miles offshore.
- Our beach house is just a couple of miles from the ocean.
- ships large enough to sail the open ocean
- an ocean liner
- a species of fish that lives on the ocean floor
- El Nino is a warm ocean current that appears off the coast of Peru during the winter.
- Ocean levels are rising.
- (usually Ocean)[countable] one of the five large areas that the ocean is divided into
- the Antarctic/Arctic/Atlantic/Indian/Pacific Ocean
- They travelled across oceans in search of a new life.
British/American sea / oceansea / ocean- In British English, the usual word for the mass of salt water that covers most of the earth’s surface is the sea. In North American English, the usual word is the ocean:
- A swimmer drowned in the sea/ocean this morning.
- The names of particular areas of seas, however, are fixed:
- the Mediterranean Sea
- the Atlantic Ocean.
- Sea/ocean are also used if you go to the coast on holiday:
- We’re spending a week by the sea/at the ocean in June.
- We’re going to the beach for vacation.
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French occean, via Latin from Greek ōkeanos ‘great stream encircling the earth's disc’. “The ocean” originally referred to the whole body of water thought to encompass the earth's single land mass.
Idioms
a drop in the ocean (British English)
(North American English a drop in the bucket)
- an amount of something that is too small or unimportant to make any real difference to a situation
- The amount of money raised was a drop in the ocean compared to what we needed.
an ocean of something
(also oceans of something)
- (informal) a large amount of something