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Deep-sea   /dip-si/   Listen
adjective
Deep-sea  adj.  
1.
Of or pertaining to the deeper parts of the sea; as, a deep-sea line (i. e., a line to take soundings at a great depth); deep-sea lead; deep-sea soundings, explorations, etc.
2.
At some distance from the shore; as, deep-sea fishing.
Synonyms: offshore.
3.
Taking place in the deeper parts of the sea; as, deep-sea exploration.





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"Deep-sea" Quotes from Famous Books



... on a sea thronged with heavy traffic. A big submersible breaks water suddenly. Another and another follows with a swash and a suck and a savage bubbling of relieved pressures. The deep-sea freighters are rising to lung up after the long night, and the leisurely ocean is all patterned with peacock's eyes ...
— Actions and Reactions • Rudyard Kipling
... in full armour resembles a deep-sea diver or a Roman retiarius more than anything else. The dress itself consists of thickly padded knickerbockers, jersey, canvas jacket, very heavy boots, and very thick stockings. The player then farther protects himself by shin guards, shoulder caps, ankle and knee supporters, and wristbands. The ...
— The Land of Contrasts - A Briton's View of His American Kin • James Fullarton Muirhead
... are we, With our liners of rocket speed, Till the God of Ice, in mist-filled trice, Calls to us harshly to pay his price As we sink to the deep-sea weed. ...
— The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado • Logan Marshall
... frequents the German-club in preference to the Greco; for at the club is there not lager beer?.... In imperial Rome, there are lager beer breweries! He has the profundities of the esthetical in art at his finger-ends; it is deep-sea fishing, and he occasionally lands a whale, as Kaulbach has done; or very nearly catches a mermaid with Cornelius. Let us respect ...
— Continental Monthly, Vol. II. July, 1862. No. 1. • Various
... Lieutenant John M. Brooke, afterwards Com. Brooke, C. S. N., belongs the credit of deep-sea soundings; and to him we owe the suggestion of the submarine telegraphic cable across the Atlantic. (See below, letter to Secretary of the Navy.) Cyrus W. Field said, at a dinner given in 1858 to celebrate the first cable message across the Atlantic,—"Maury furnished the ...
— Southern Literature From 1579-1895 • Louise Manly


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