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SHORT SEA

Definition: SHORT SEA

SHORT SEA

1. A sea in which the waves are short, broken, and irregular, so as to produce a tumbling or jerking motion.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Synonyms within Context: SHORT SEA

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

River

Gelasma/gr>; beach comber, riffle, rollers, ground swell, surf, breakers, white horses, whitecaps; rough sea, heavy sea, high seas, cross sea, long sea, short sea, chopping sea.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Commercial Usage: SHORT SEA

DomainTitle

Books

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Expressions: SHORT SEA

Expressions using "SHORT SEA": short sea routes short sea shipping. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: SHORT SEA

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

short sea shipping

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: SHORT SEA

Language Translations for "SHORT SEA"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

short-sea fart (short sea routes, short sea shipping, short sea shipping routes), søtransport over kortere afstande (short sea shipping routes), korte søruter (short sea routes, short sea shipping), den nære liniefart (short sea routes, short sea shipping, short sea shipping routes). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

Subsidieregeling Samenwerkingsverbanden Kustvaart (Short Sea Shipping Joint Venture (Grants) Regulations), vervoer over zee over korte afstanden (short sea shipping routes), korte vaart (short sea routes, short sea shipping). (various references)

   

French

  

transports maritimes courte distance (short sea shipping routes). (various references)

   

German

  

Küstenschiffahrt (coasting), große Küstenfahrt (short sea routes, short sea shipping). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σύντομες θαλάσσιες διαδρομές (short sea shipping routes). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szabálytalan hullámverés, rövid hullámverés, rövid de erős hullámzás. (various references)

   

Italian

  

navigazione marittima a corto raggio (short sea shipping routes). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ortshay easay

   

Portuguese

  

navegação marítima de pequeno curso (short sea shipping routes). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

бурное море с короткими волнами. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

transporte marítimo costero (short sea shipping routes). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: SHORT SEA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: earshots, hoarsest.

Words within the letters "a-e-h-o-r-s-s-t"

-1 letter: earshot, horstes, rashest, trashes.

-2 letters: ahorse, ashore, assert, assort, asters, earths, hastes, haters, hearts, hoarse, horses, horste, horsts, hostas, oaters, orates, others, rashes, reshot, roasts, rosets, serosa, shares, shears, shoats, shoers, shores, shorts, shotes, sorest, stares, stores, throes, torahs, torses, toshes, tosser, tsores.

-3 letters: arose, arses, ashes, asset, aster, earth, easts, ethos, haets.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-h-o-r-s-s-t"
 

+1 letter: arthroses, authoress, rheostats, shortages.

 

+2 letters: authorises, horsetails, northeasts, orchestras, senhoritas, shortcakes, shortwaves, soothsayer, stomachers, tarbooshes, tovarishes, trehaloses.

 

+3 letters: aftershocks, anastrophes, apostrophes, arthrodeses, arthrodesis, atmospheres, authoresses, broadsheets, diarthroses, escharotics, heatstrokes, housemaster, housetrains, orthoclases, peashooters, postharvest, saprophytes, scattershot, senatorship, shortbreads, snapshooter, soothsayers, southeaster, spheroplast, thermostats, thimerosals, throatiness.

 

+4 letters: anorthosites, anthracnoses, antistrophes, apostrophise, arthroscopes, arthrospores, atmospherics, behaviorists, cataphoreses, cataphoresis, catastrophes, choirmasters, cornstarches, crapshooters, crosshatched, crosshatches, crosspatches, hearthstones, homesteaders, houseboaters, housefathers, housemasters, houseparents, hydrolysates, mesothoraces, mesothoraxes, misanthropes, northeasters, orchestrates, overharvests, praetorships, prothalluses, schoolmaster, senatorships, servanthoods, sharpshooter, shortchanges, slaughterous, snapshooters, southeastern, southeasters, spheroplasts, spirochaetes, stadtholders, stakeholders, stallholders, steatorrheas, stereographs, stratosphere, synarthroses, trapshooters, urolithiases, whoremasters.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Expressions
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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