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单词 north sea
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North Sean.

Brit. /ˌnɔːθ ˈsiː/, U.S. /ˈnɔrθ ˈsi/
Forms: see north adv., adj., and n. and sea n. Also formerly with lower-case initial.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: north adj., sea n.
Etymology: Originally < the uninflected (originally adverb) stem of north adj. (see discussion at north adv., adj., and n.) + sea n.; later probably directly < north adj. + sea n. With sense 1b compare West Frisian Noardsee , Middle Dutch Nortsee (Dutch Noordzee ), German Nordsee (17th cent.), Old Icelandic Norðrsjór , Swedish Nordsjö , Danish Nordsø . Compare South Sea n., East Sea n.
1.
a. (A name for) the Bristol Channel. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > channel > [noun] > Bristol Channel
North SeaeOE
the Severn Sea1577
eOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Parker) anno 893 [Hi] ymbsæton an geweorc on Defnascire be þære norþsæ.
1478 W. Worcester Itineraries 30 Le northsee. Ville principales super mare boriale scite.
1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall 120 Bottreaux Castle, seated on a bad harbour of the North sea, & suburbed with a poore market town.
b. (The name of) the sea between Britain and the Netherlands, Germany, and Scandinavia. Frequently attributive.
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the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > specific seas > [noun] > North Sea
North SeaOE
German Ocean1573
German Sea1577
OE tr. Felix St. Guthlac (Vesp.) (1909) iii. 113 Ys on Bretonelande sum fenn unmætre mycelnysse, þæt onginneð fram Grante ea..and hit mid menigfealdan bignyssum widgille and lang þeneð wunað [perh. read þurhwunað] on norðsæ.
c1300 St. Kenelm (Laud) 17 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 345 (MED) To þe North-se hombur geth.
1593 in F. G. Emmison Essex Wills (1998) (modernized text) XI. 41 With the half of the tackling as well for North Sea gear as also for staw [sic] boat gear belonging to her.
1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Ss3v/1 Lobbe, is a great kinde of north sea fish.
1705 London Gaz. No. 4103/4 Newfoundland Bank-Fish,..equal to the North-Sea Cod.
1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea II. xlii. 279 The mouth of the Elbe, at the north-sea, is about thirteen..miles distance.
1841 Penny Cycl. XXI. 147/2 The Baltic..receives so great a supply of river-water, that its level is higher than that of the North Sea.
1891 W. C. Russell Marriage at Sea v A staunch little craft..built for North Sea weather.
1916 M. T. Hainsselin In Northern Mists xxiv. 97 Like all these North Sea craft..she is built with bows nearly twice as high out of the water as the after-part.
1995 Daily Tel. 28 Mar. 10/1 Eight North Sea countries..have decided not to impose any controls on ‘industrial’ fishing.
2.
a. The northern portion of the earth's oceans; (in later use) spec. the Atlantic. Obsolete.
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the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > specific seas > [noun] > Baltic Sea
East SeaOE
North SeaOE
Baltic1720
Littorina sea1921
OE Ælfric Let. to Sigeweard (De Veteri et Novo Test.) (Laud) 27 Of Iaphet..com þæt norðerne mennisc be þære Norðsæ.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 134 Þe norþ see is but litil salt.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 163v Londe þat is nygh to þe souþe see is more hote and moyste þan lond þat is nygh to þe north see.
?1575 in R. Hakluyt Voy. Martin Frobisher (1867) 3 To find oute the passage oute of the North Sea into the Southe we must sayle to the 60 degree.
1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies iii. xiii. 159 The waves of the South sea, runne 30 leagues, and the other 70 are possessed with the billowes and waves of the North sea.
1622 R. Hawkins Observ. Voiage South Sea lxiii. 157 The Daintie sayled badly,..and with the advantage, which all the south-sea shippes haue of all those built in our North sea: The Admirall gaue her a tawe.
1687 Philos. Trans. 1686–7 (Royal Soc.) 16 (map following p. 168) The North Sea or Atlantick Ocean.
1707 H. Sloane Voy. Islands I. p. v Jamaica lies in that part of the North Sea, which washes the East side of the Continent of America.
b. In plural. The seas of the northern hemisphere.
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the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > specific seas > [noun] > of northern hemisphere
Adriatic Sea?a1475
North Seas1548
Adriatic1603
Propontic1603
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. ccxii The kyng..decked and vitailed dyuers shippes of warre and sent them to the North seas to defende his subiectes.
1601 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Trauellers Breuiat 25 In these places they made the north and south seas their bounds.
1641 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) f. 126 Dole-fish seemeth to bee those fishes which the fisher-men yeerly employed in the North seas, doe of custome receive for their allowance.
1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. i. viii. 144 An English Merchant-Man, returning from Japan by the North and South-Seas.
a1817 J. Austen Persuasion (1818) III. viii. 165 The only time that I ever really suffered..was the winter that I passed by myself at Deal, when the Admiral..was in the North Seas . View more context for this quotation
1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. ix. 216 The..shrewdest-headed..Berserker in the North Seas.
1930 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 24 542 Several of the countries which signed the North Seas Fisheries Convention of 1882 interpret the ten-mile bay provision..as entitling them to draw lines up to ten nautical miles in length in almost any indentation in the coast.
1994 Jrnl. Econ. Hist. 54 623 A project was floated to promote the trade to the North Seas, a project whose similarity in name to the infamous South Sea Bubble was enough to ensure its failure.
3. Jamaican. = ground-sea n. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > state of sea > [noun] > swell > specific
North Sea1867
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 500 North Sea, the Jamaica name for the north swell.

Compounds

North Sea gas n. natural gas obtained from oil fields beneath the North Sea (sense 1b).
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society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > gas or types of gas > [noun]
gas1808
oil-gas1820
wood-gasc1865
town gas1867
fuel-gas1886
power gas1901
bottled gas1930
biogas1958
North Sea gas1965
1965North Sea gas [see North Sea oil n.].
1967 Guardian 4 Jan. 3/1 Bringing North Sea gas ashore in Norfolk.
1998 Grocer 1 Aug. 114/3 (advt.) Coffee roasters will use bottle gas as well as North Sea gas.
North Sea oil n. oil obtained from oil fields beneath the North Sea (sense 1b).
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society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > oil or types of oil > [noun]
lamp oila1586
oil fuel1888
fuel oil1893
power oil1957
North Sea oil1965
1965 Times 22 Sept. 10/6 The BP gas find radically alters the North Sea oil and gas search.
1996 W. Hutton State we're In (rev. ed.) iii. 62 The growing realisation that North Sea oil could transform Britain's economy began to give sterling the status of a ‘petro-currency’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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