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Sea Bottom

Definition: Sea Bottom

Sea Bottom

Noun

1. The bottom of a sea or ocean.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Synonyms: Sea Bottom

Synonyms: ocean bottom (n), ocean floor (n), seabed (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Sea Bottom

English words defined with "sea bottom": benthic division, benthonic zone, benthos, bottom fishDavy Jones, Davy Jones's lockerFothergroundfish, grouper, Gulgul, gurnardInframedianocean bottom, ocean floor, Oyster dredgephoronidseabedTo heave up anchorVenus's basket. (references)
Specialty definitions using "sea bottom": bathysmal, BOATSWAIN, OTTER TRAWLER, bottom samplercontinental marginDeloseuxinicfisher, sponge hookingISLANDKELP CUTTERmarine geology, marine humusPhleger corerSea Deities, SPONGE HOOKERZero Datum. (references)

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Photo Album: Sea Bottom

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Map of "Geology of the Sea Bottom in the Approaches to New York Bay." This map depicts the upper reaches of Hudson Canyon and the remnants of a valley in continental shelf. This early physiographic map was published in the Coast and Geodetic Survey Annual Report for 1884, Appendix 13, p. 438. It was drawn by Adolph Lindenkohl and is the earliest published map of a submarine canyon.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Figure 48. A sea bottom dredge designed by Jacques Picard in 1961 at the Marseille Marine Station and first used in the Bay of Marseille. This was meant to sample the fauna living in the sediments covering the seafloor. This instrument is similar to a box dredge or deep sea anchor dredge. It was first tested in 1961 in the Bay of Marseille.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Men from the submarine rescue ship Falcon (ASR-2) working on salvage pontoons, during the effort to raise Squalus from the sea bottom off the New Hampshire coast in the Summer of 1939. The larger of the two tugs at right is USS Wandank (AT-26).Credit: NAVY.

Men working on salvage pontoons, during the effort to raise Squalus from the sea bottom off the New Hampshire coast in the Summer of 1939. USS Falcon (ASR-2) is at left and USS Sculpin (SS-191) is in the center distance.Credit: NAVY.

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

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Modern Translations: Sea Bottom

Language Translations for "sea bottom"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

neden for brodden(stinger)haenger roeret frit ned til havbunden i,hvad der kaldes et underbend (beyond the stinger, the pipe is freely suspended to the sea bottom in what is called the sagbend). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

voorbij de pijphelling hangt de pijp vrij naar de zeebodem af in wat de doorhang wordt genoemd (beyond the stinger, the pipe is freely suspended to the sea bottom in what is called the sagbend). (various references)

   

French

  

en aval de l'élinde(du stinger),la portion de conduite suspendue librement jusqu'au fond marin est dénommée "sagbend". (various references)

   

German

  

meeresgrund (bottom, bottom of the sea, ocean floor, sea bed, seabed, seafloor). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κάτω από το STINGER,το τμήμα της σωληνώσεως,που κρέμεται ελεύθερα μέχρι το θαλάσσιο πυθμένα,ονομάζεται "SAGBEND"(SAGBEND = το "κοίλο" μέρος της σωληνώσε. (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

dasar laut. (various references)

   

Italian

  

al di l della rampa di scivolo esterna(stinger),il tubo è liberamente sospeso fino al fondo mare in quella che è chiamata "curva inferiore"("sagbend"). (various references)

   

Manx

  

thoyn ny marrey (sea bed, sea floor). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

easay ottombay

   

Spanish

  

despues del "stinger",la parte de conduccion suspendida libremente hasta el fondo marino se denomina "sagbend". (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Sea Bottom

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-e-m-o-o-s-t-t"

-1 letter: tomatoes.

-2 letters: bottoms, mottoes, osteoma, seaboot, stomate.

-3 letters: bettas, bottom, mattes, motets, mottes, mottos, obtest, taboos, tamest, tomato, totems.

-4 letters: abets, ambos, atoms, baste, bates, batts, beams, beast, beats, bemas, besom, besot, betas, betta, boast, boats, booms, boost, boots, bosom, botas, botts, mabes, mates, matte, matts, meats, moats, moose, moots, moste, motes, motet, motte.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-e-m-o-o-s-t-t"
 

+3 letters: footlamberts, motorboaters.

 

+5 letters: automobilities, retinoblastoma.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Sea Bottom


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 65 61      42 6F 74 74 6F 6D

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01100101 01100001 00100000 01000010 01101111 01110100 01110100 01101111 01101101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#101 &#97 &#32 &#66 &#111 &#116 &#116 &#111 &#109

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0065 0061      0042 006F 0074 0074 006F 006D

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5371672368186868179

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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