My dad was a sailor, and all through my childhood he was away half of the time at sea, and to an extent I have a similar job.
And for those on the Palestinian right who still dream of driving the Jews into the sea, they too can forget it.
On Monday, Soelistyo had jolted relatives as well as searchers by suggesting that the plane could be “at the bottom of the sea.”
As night fell, the rescue operation slowed and sea conditions worsened.
Still, I found myself agreeing with the older gentleman who saw the room as a sea of gentiles.
As you do not propose to follow the sea, it will not be worth while to go as cabin-boy.
Had the dead come back from the bottom of the sea to expose him?
He, too, plunged into the sea, and Bunsby and the captain were left alone.
The two bent their steps to the shore, and looked out to sea.
Then they launched the ship's boat, in which Bates had come to the island, and put out to sea.
Old English sæ "sheet of water, sea, lake, pool," from Proto-Germanic *saiwaz (cf. Old Saxon seo, Old Frisian se, Middle Dutch see, Swedish sjö), of unknown origin, outside connections "wholly doubtful" [Buck]. Meaning "large quantity" (of anything) is from c.1200. Meaning "dark area of the moon's surface" is attested from 1660s (see mare (n.2)).
Germanic languages also use the general Indo-European word (represented by English mere (n.)), but have no firm distinction between "sea" and "lake," either by size, by inland or open, or by salt vs. fresh. This may reflect the Baltic geography where the languages are thought to have originated. The two words are used more or less interchangeably in Germanic, and exist in opposite senses (e.g. Gothic saiws "lake," marei "sea;" but Dutch zee "sea," meer "lake"). Cf. also Old Norse sær "sea," but Danish sø, usually "lake" but "sea" in phrases. German See is "sea" (fem.) or "lake" (masc.). The single Old English word sæ glosses Latin mare, aequor, pontus, pelagus, and marmor.
Phrase sea change "transformation" is attested from 1610, first in Shakespeare ("The Tempest," I.ii). Sea anemone is from 1742; sea legs is from 1712; sea level from 1806; sea urchin from 1590s. At sea in the figurative sense of "perplexed" is attested from 1768, from literal sense of "out of sight of land" (c.1300).
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