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BREAKING SEA

Specialty Definition: BREAKING SEA

DomainDefinition

Food & Agriculture

A wave whose front becomes so steep that the wave crest tumbles over in the direction of travel, producing turbulent water and foam. They represent a particular hazard to small vessels. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Photo Album: BREAKING SEA

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NATHANIEL B. PALMER breaking sea ice in the Ross Sea. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

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

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Modern Translation: BREAKING SEA

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

Danish

  

styrtsø (billow, breaking wave). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

brekende golf,overslaande golf (billow, breaking wave). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

tyrsky (surf, surge). (various references)

   

French

  

Vague dont la pente devient si abrupte que son sommet se renverse vers l'avant en se brisant et en formant des remous et de l'écume.La vague déferlante est particulièrement dangereuse pour les petits navires et embarcations. (breaking wave), vague déferlante (breaking wave), déferlante (breaking wave). (various references)

   

German

  

Brecher (breaker, crusher, roller), brechende Welle (billow, breaking wave). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κύμα που σπάει πάνω στο πλοίο (billow, breaking wave), θραυόμενο κύμα (billow, breaking wave). (various references)

   

Italian

  

frangente (awkward situation, beachcomber, breaker), cavallone (roller). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eakingbray easay

   

Portuguese

  

vaga rebentando (billow, breaking wave), mar de rolo (billow, breaking wave). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

rompiente (surge, swell), ola rompiente (billow, breaking wave). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: BREAKING SEA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-e-e-g-i-k-n-r-s"

-2 letters: brakeages, breakages, breakings.

-3 letters: agenesia, anergias, anergies, angaries, arginase, bakeries, bargains, bearings, bearskin, beraking, brakeage, breakage, breaking, gesneria, ikebanas, rebegins, sabering, sangaree, sneakier.

-4 letters: abasing, airbags, anergia, arabesk, bakings, bangers, bankers, banksia, bareges, bargain, bargees, barking, basking, beakers, beakier, beanies, bearing, berakes, bingers, bisnaga, braking, earings, enrages, erasing, gainers, grabens, greisen, ikebana, kerbing.

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

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INDEX

1. Images: Photo Album
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography


  

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