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Seabed

Definition: Seabed

Seabed

Noun

1. The bottom of a sea or ocean.

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

Date "seabed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1985. (references)

 

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Seabed

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField
SEALSEnglishSeabed location systemMeteorology & Standards, Transportation

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Seabed

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

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Crosswords: Seabed

English words defined with "seabed": bathyal district, bathyal zone, buoycontinental shelf, continental slope. (references)
Specialty definitions using "seabed": continental margindoppler logEU Sea Sediment database, EU-SEASED databasemagnetic minehunting, marine core drill, mechanized dredgeNCB boring towerouter continental shelfpolymetallic sulfideundersea prospecting. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Seabed

DomainTitle

Books

  • Development of the Hard Mineral Resources of the Deep Seabed (reference)

  • From Space to the Seabed (Great Adventures Series) (reference)

  • Internationalizing the Seabed (reference)

  • Ocean and Seabed Acoustics: A Theory of Wave Propagation [PHOTOCOPY] (reference)

  • Resource Management and the Oceans: The Political Economy of Deep Seabed Mining (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Image Slideshow: Seabed

Illustrations:
Seabed

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Non-Fiction Usage: Seabed

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

Kazakhstan is the second largest oil producer among the former Soviet Republics after Russia, producing over 600,000 barrels per day. Kazakhstan has proven oil reserves of 16 billion barrels and may have, according to the Government of Kazakhstan (GOK) projections, a further 60 billion barrels both onshore and under its portion of the Caspian seabed. (references)

Economic History

Marshall Islands

Natural resources: Marine resources, including mariculture and possible deep seabed minerals. (references)

Kazakhstan

The recent discovery of the potentially huge Kashagan oil field under Kazakhstan's portion of the Caspian seabed has created an expectation that Kazakhstan will become a major oil exporter in the medium term. (references)

Norway

The future challenge on the Norwegian continental shelf lies in developing new, more simple technology, even better drilling methods and seismic technology, deepwater development, and operations run by remote control on the seabed or down in the production wells. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Seabed

"Seabed" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 95.28% of the time. "Seabed" is used about 106 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)95.28%10132,488
Lexical Verb (past tense)1.89%2245,945
Noun (proper)1.89%2245,945
Lexical Verb (past participle)0.94%1339,140
                    Total100.00%106N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Seabed

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "seabed": deep-seabed.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Seabed

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

authority international seabed

5

seabed

4

seabed survey

3

deep group norwegian seabed

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Seabed

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

Arabic 

  

‏مجرى البحر, ‏قاع البحر (benthos). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

海底. (various references)

   

Danish

  

rørsamling på havbunden (tie-in on the seabed), en spulegraver med hoejstryksdyser,som nedgravningsprammen traekker med sig,rider oven paa roerledningen og foelger den saaledes i hele dens laengde;adskillige dyser med vand under hoejt tryk sidder paa sladen og spuler havbunden vaek og danner derved e (pulled along with a bury barge, straddles and walks the length of the pipeline;many high-pressure water jets on the sled erode away the seabed to form a trench under an existing sealine, the jetting sled), Den Internationale Havbundsmyndighed (International Seabed Authority), bortskaffelse i sedimenter i havet (seabed disposal, seabed insertion). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

straalslede,die met een ingraaflichter wordt meegetrokken,beweegt zichschrijlings over de pijpleiding voort;tal van hoge-drukwatestralen op de slede spuiten de zeebodem weg en vormen een sleuf onder de reeds gelegde leiding (pulled along with a bury barge, straddles and walks the length of the pipeline;many high-pressure water jets on the sled erode away the seabed to form a trench under an existing sealine, the jetting sled), verbinding van alle secties op de zeebodem (tie-in on the seabed), opberging in de oceaanbodem (seabed disposal, seabed insertion), minerale hulpbronnen in de zeebodem (deep seabed mineral resources), Internationale Autoriteit voor de zeebodem (International Seabed Authority), Internationaal Gezagsorgaan voor de Zeebodem (International Seabed Authority), ingraving in de zeebodem (seabed disposal, seabed insertion), Hoofdafdeling Water en Bodem (Seabed and Water Management Branch). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

کف دریا (Ground), بستراقیانوس . (various references)

   

Finnish

  

liittäminen merenpohjassa (tie-in on the seabed). (various references)

   

French

  

Traité interdisant de placer des armes nucléaires et d'autres armes de destruction massive sur le fond des mers et des océans ainsi que.dans leur sous-sol (Treaty on the Prohibition of the Emplacement of Nuclear Weapons and other Weapons of Mass Destruction on the Seabed and the Ocean Floor.and in the Subsoil thereof), Traité de contrôle des armements dans les fonds marins (Seabed Arms Control Treaty), ressource minérale du fond de la mer (deep seabed mineral resources), raccordement au fond (tie-in on the seabed), prélèvement d'échantillons des fonds marins (seabed sampling), le traîneau d'ensouillage,engin mécanique tracté ou remorqué par une barge d'ensouillage,chemine et chevauche la conduite sur toute sa longueur;de nombreux jets d'eau sous forte pression,issus de ce traîneau,affouillent le fond marin pour constituer (straddles and "walks" the length of the pipeline;many high-pressure water jets on the sled erode away the seabed to form a trench under an existing sealine), démilitarisation des fonds marins (demilitarization of the seabed), Convention sur la responsabilité civile pour les dommages de pollution par les hydrocarbures résultant de la recherche et de l'exploitation des ressources minérales du sous-sol marin,Londres,1976 (Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage resulting from Exploration for and Exploitation of Seabed Natural Resources), Autorité internationale des fonds marins (International Seabed Authority), AIFM (International Seabed Authority), évacuation dans les sédiments marins (seabed disposal, seabed insertion). (various references)

   

German

  

meeresgrund (bottom, bottom of the sea, ocean floor, sea bed, sea bottom, seafloor), meeresboden (bottom of the sea, ocean bed, ocean floor, sea bottom, sea-bottom, seafloor), boden (attic, base, blast furnace bottom, bottom, bottom plating, earth, exchange plate, floor, foundation, fundus, furnace bottom, ground, hearth, hearth bottom, hearth pad, hearth plug, land, loft, planking, plate, punt, seat, soil, terrain, tray). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

υποβρύχια σύνδεση σωλήνων (tie-in on the seabed), το JETTING SLED,μηχάνημα,που ρυμουλκείται από μία φορτηγίδα ταφής,περνά πάνω από τον αγωγό καθ'όλο το μήκος του. ολυάριθμες εκτοξεύσεις νερού με (straddles and "walks" the length of the pipeline;many high-pressure water jets on the sled erode away the seabed to form a trench under an existing sealine), "ιεθνής Αρχή για την Εκμετάλλευση του Θαλάσσιου 'υθού (International Seabed Authority). (various references)

   

Italian

  

smaltimento nei sedimenti marini (seabed disposal, seabed insertion), la slitta di getto,tirata avanti da un pontone d'affondamento,fa da forcella e stende la lunghezza del tubo per condotta;moltigetti d'acqua ad alta pressione a partire dalla slitta erodono il letto del mare e formano scanalature sotto ad un'esistente cond (pulled along with a bury barge, straddles and "walks" the length of the pipeline;many high-pressure water jets on the sled erode away the seabed to form a trench under an existing sealine, the jetting sled), campionamento dei fondali marini (seabed sampling), Autorit internazionale dei fondali marini (International Seabed Authority). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eabedsay

   

Portuguese

  

solo oceânico. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

морское дно (sea floor). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

morsko dno (seafloor). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

lecho marino (ocean bed). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

rörförbindelse på havsbotten (tie-in on the seabed). (various references)

   

Thai

  

พื้น"ินใต้ทะเล. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

морське дно. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Seabed

Derivations

Words beginning with "seabed": seabeds. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Seabed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Asadabad, Esbcd, kebabed, reabed, sabid, sabido, seabeds, seabee, seaved, seaveed, Seaxbald, sebd, Senbef, serabend, sexbox, slabbed, spabbed, spabed. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Seabed"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "seabed" (pronounced sē"be'd)
3-b e' ddeathbed, featherbed, flatbed, hotbed, riverbed, waterbed.

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Anagrams: Seabed

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: debase.

Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-e-s"

-1 letter: aedes, based, beads, eased, sabed.

-2 letters: abed, bade, bads, base, bead, beds, bees, dabs, debs, dees, ease, sabe, sade, seed.

-3 letters: abs, ads, bad, bas, bed, bee, dab, deb, dee, eds, sab, sad, sae, sea, see.

-4 letters: ab, ad, ae, as, ba, be, de, ed, es.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-e-s"
 

+1 letter: beadles, beheads, bestead, debased, debaser, debases, debates, debeaks, sabered, seabeds.

 

+2 letters: abseiled, absented, albedoes, basseted, beadiest, beadsmen, bedesman, bedmates, bedrapes, bedstead, beeyards, beladies, beldames, beshamed, beslaved, bespread, besteads, bethesda, breasted, debacles, debasers, debaters, diabetes, feedbags, jetbeads, sendable, shedable.

 

+3 letters: abductees, abscessed, absterged, assembled, badnesses, bassetted, bayadeers, bayaderes, beachside, beardless, beclasped, bedabbles, bedarkens, bedazzles, bedeafens, bedframes, bediapers, bedmakers, bedplates, bedsoniae, bedspread, bedsteads, beebreads, bemaddens, berdaches, besmeared, bespreads, besteaded, beswarmed, bethesdas, bidarkees, blueheads, boneheads, dauberies, deadbeats, deathbeds, debauches, desirable, devisable, educables, endamebas, feedbacks, freebased, leeboards, redbreast, shewbread, slabbered, speedball, speedboat, spendable, streambed, subleased, subpenaed, vendables, waterbeds.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Seabed


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

53 65 61 62 65 64

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    .    .-    -...    .    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01010011 01100101 01100001 01100010 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#101 &#97 &#98 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0065 0061 0062 0065 0064

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

537167687170

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Usage Frequency
8. Expressions
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Abbreviations
12. Acronyms
13. Derivations
14. Rhymes
15. Anagrams
16. Orthography
17. Bibliography


  

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