Oceanographer

Definition: Oceanographer

Oceanographer

Noun

1. A scientist who studies physical and biological aspects of the seas.

Crosswords: Oceanographer

English words defined with "oceanographer": Ekman ♦ Vagn Walfrid Ekman. (references)

Specialty definitions using "oceanographer": OCEANOGRAPHER, ASSISTANT. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	A View of the Sea: A Discussion Between a Chief Engineer and an Oceanographer About the Machinery of the Ocean Circulation (reference) I Can Be an Oceanographer (I Can Be Series) (reference) Oceanographer (reference) Robert Ballard: Oceanographer Who Discovered the Titanic (People to Know) (reference) Sea Legs: Tales of a Woman Oceanographer (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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	Don Jones On the OCEANOGRAPHER Went on to become Rear Admiral.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.		Leo Otis Colbert with Dorsey Fathometer No. 3 The first effective shallow and deep water echosounder Operator watched flashing light On the ship OCEANOGRAPHER.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.
	Submarine valley discovered in Georges Bank area Work done by OCEANOGRAPHER.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.		The Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship OCEANOGRAPHER -- converted from the J. P. Morgan yacht CORSAIR II in 1930.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.
	Prince Albert I of Monaco, 1848-1922, a great oceanographer, statesman, and humanitarian. He is wearing the "habit ver", the uniform of the Institut de France of which the Academie des sciences de Paris is one of five components. Through his generosity, the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco was established.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.		Artist's conception of the NOAA Ship OCEANOGRAPHER.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.
	Dr. Harris B. Stewart, Chief Oceanographer of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, and chief scientist aboard the USC&GS Ship PIONEER during the International Indian Ocean Expedition, discussing bottom sampling while holding a large manganese nodule.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.		Dr. Francis P. Shepard, the "father of marine geology," discussing scientific findings of the International Indian Ocean Expedition on board the Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship PIONEER at a press conference in Colombo, Ceylon. Looking on were Dr. Robert Dietz, an early pioneer in plate tectonic theory, and Dr. Harris B. Stewart, Chief Oceanographer of the Coast and Geodetic Survey.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.
	Scientists from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography study seafloor material acquired off the Aleutian Islands. It is believed that Harris B. Stewart, future Chief Oceanographer of the Coast and Geodetic Survey and founder of NOAA' s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratories is the individual on the left. In: August Gribbin, 1968, "Sea Horizons," p. 65.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.		Professor Thoulet - the celebrated oceanographer. He took part in the PRINCESS ALICE II's cruises of 1901 and 1903. Plate IV, print 9. In: "Results of the Scientific Campaigns of the Prince of Monaco." Vol. 89.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.
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"Oceanographer" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 87.50% of the time. "Oceanographer" is used about 8 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 Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	87.5%	7	133,076
Noun (proper)	12.5%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	8	N/A

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.

Language		Translations for "oceanographer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		海洋学者. (various references)

German		ozeanograph. (various references)

Greek		ωκεανογράφοσ. (various references)

Hungarian		oceanográfus. (various references)

Italian		oceanografo. (various references)

Korean		해양학자. (various references)

Pig Latin		oceanographeray

Portuguese		marítimo (marine, maritime, nautical chart, naval attache, salt water, seaman, seaside). (various references)

Romanian		oceanograf. (various references)

Russian		океанограф. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		okeanograf. (various references)

Spanish		oceanografo (oceanologist), oceanógrafo. (various references)

Swedish		oceanograf. (various references)

Ukranian		океанограф. (various references)

Vietnamese		nhà hải dương học. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "oceanographer": oceanographers. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Oceanographer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: oceanograpgher, oceanograph. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "oceanographer" (pronounced ō'shunÄ"grufer)
7	-n Ä" g r u f er	pornographer.
6	-Ä" g r u f er	autobiographer, biographer, choreographer, cinematographer, crystallographer, demographer, geographer, lexicographer, photographer.
5	-g r u f er	stenographer, videographer.
3	-u f er	aquifer, conifer, Lucifer, philosopher.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-e-g-h-n-o-o-p-r-r"
	-2 letters: chaperonage, coronagraph.
	-3 letters: carragheen.
	-4 letters: anchorage, arrogance, carrageen, chaperone, cooperage, gonorrhea, harpooner, operagoer, orphanage.
	-5 letters: canephor, carageen, chaperon, earphone, geophone, parachor, parcener, parergon, poechore, preacher, ranchero, rechange, recharge, reproach.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-e-g-h-n-o-o-p-r-r"
	+1 letter: oceanographers.
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