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.

†a. (A name for) the Bristol Channel. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

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.

ΘΚΠ

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. Ss3^v/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.

†a. The northern portion of the earth's oceans; (in later use) spec. the Atlantic. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

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. 163^v 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.

ΘΚΠ

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 .

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.

ΘΚΠ

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).

ΘΚΠ

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).

ΘΚΠ

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).

单词	north sea
释义	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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. Ss3^v/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. ΘΚΠ 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. 163^v 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). ΘΚΠ 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). ΘΚΠ 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). < n.eOE
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