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Meanings of sea floor in English
The bottom of a sea or ocean.
Synonyms
Examples for "seabed"
Examples for "seabed"
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Ireland is the only EU state without a territory-wide seabed mapping programme.
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Canada said earlier this month it would map its entire Arctic seabed.
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Tell them that we're about to open fire on the TK44 seabed.
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Yet that is what we are doing to the seabed round Britain.
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Investigators now plan to launch an underwater seabed search for aircraft wreckage.
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On today's seafloor, some species of lobster form similar sorts of chains.
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That led to the release of methane from the seafloor, said Ruhl.
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The water was the near-cloudy green of jade dishware, shrouding the seafloor.
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They can extend for tens to hundreds of metres below the seafloor.
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Eventually, the join breaks, causing the seafloor to spring upwards several metres.
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David Shukman has been on board with researchers examining the sea bed below.
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As for the treasure, that remains on the sea bed -for now.
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The snow melted very rapidly and the old sea bed was soon awash.
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In some places, this can be hundreds of metres deep on the sea bed.
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This was more than just a simple hatch poking out of the sea bed.
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More than two billion years ago, sand settled on the ocean floor.
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You should have seen us laughing down there on the ocean floor.
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It is also much flatter, only rising 10m above the ocean floor.
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She watched the four trails as they rocketed over the ocean floor.
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The Mariana trench is not a small crack in the ocean floor.
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Her arm twisted awkwardly behind her back, slamming into the ocean bottom.
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Did it now defend the ocean bottom, a home for slimfish and octopus?
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An earthquake long ago lifted the ocean bottom and turned it into dry land.
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It must have sunk to the ocean bottom to be eaten by the fish.
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A line drawing of ocean bottom subsiding beside mountains and continent rising.)
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The sea bottom was rich with crawling and swimming and growing things.
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Colonies of them cluster from the sea bottom to the high-tide mark.
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To starboard, a prominent bulge on the sea bottom caught my attention.
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Ye'll no convince owners that the sea bottom isna' wet and onsairten.
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Saul stood on the empty sea bottom, staring limply at the young newcomer.
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That makes seven gone to Davy Jones's locker, I heard a despondent voice say.
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We didn't reach Davy Jones's locker that time, did we?
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If we keep on another thirty seconds we are in for a visit to Davy Jones's Locker.
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"They are gone to Davy Jones's locker now," replied Perth, shaking his head.
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Measuring the bite of a predator like a great white shark might sound like a guaranteed trip to Davy Jones's Locker.
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What's the use in being always on the lookout for Davy Jones?''
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We seem in a good way to investigate Davy Jones' locker ourselves!
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He'll put us in Davy Jones's locker if he keeps this up!
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The entry may have been for the benefit of Davy Jones.
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The Pirate Bay, in short, is heading to Davy Jones' Locker.
Usage of sea floor in English
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These mussels are harvested the old-fashioned way-bydredging along the sea floor.
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The containment chamber was placed on the sea floor on Tuesday night.
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They're talking about a carpet of red mud in their sea floor.
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Large pieces of the fuselage were also found on the sea floor.
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The majority of the sea floor has never been visited by humans.
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A construct that had come to the muddy sea floor with deliberate purpose.
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And its attack submarines will exploit new-found knowledge of the Pacific sea floor.
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Maione stopped on the sea floor and started to push the sand away.
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The well structure cracked and oil seeped through rock to the sea floor.
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Remember, the sea floor is always moving-evenboulders can move with the tide.
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This week's image highlights some structural features on the sea floor.
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They needed confirmation of what they'd found on the sea floor.
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These show you where the ancient sea floor used to be.
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That is lower than the sea floor in some parts of the archipelago.
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Underwater robots scanned the sea floor for signs the undersea well was damaged.
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Sunlight shimmers on its surface and dapples the bare sea floor.
Translations for sea floor
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