Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The salt water in or coming from the sea or ocean.
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- noun The saltwater of a
sea orocean .
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- noun water containing salts
Etymologies
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Examples
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At Mac's Seafood, right on the beach, across from fishing boats still unloading their afternoon catch, we ate a dozen oysters from a paper plate, the liquor on the clams which is what you call the seawater pooling on top running over our chins.
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Using a membrane, seawater is separated from a liquid with even higher saline concentrations; natural osmotic pressure pulls H2O from the seawater into a solution of ammonia salts, which can be evaporated at a relatively low temperature.
High-Tech Cures for Water Shortages Michael Totty 2010
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The Diablo Canyon power plant uses only seawater from the Pacific ocean.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Wow! An Article on Water That Actually Focuses on Price 2009
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Is there enough glacial freshwater melting to actually, significantly change the amount of salt in seawater, which would mean the oceans (where they were affected) would freeze at a higher temp, among other effects?
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The H2S-producing microbes eventually grew to such numbers that the toxic byproduct of their metabolism could no longer be contained in seawater solution.
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Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows evoke well the hardships of islanders who made do with wartime rations of one candle a week and cooked their vegetables in seawater for lack of salt.
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Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows evoke well the hardships of islanders who made do with wartime rations of one candle a week and cooked their vegetables in seawater for lack of salt.
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Decaying old ditches to retain seawater in shallow lagoons surrounded the roadbed.
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Hunterston used to use a cooling system which was basically sooking in seawater in big pipes, to cool the uranium.
Nuclear Power and Hot Air Jeff 2007
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Decaying old ditches to retain seawater in shallow lagoons surrounded the roadbed.
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