What's the difference between estuary and ocean?

Estuary


Definition:

  • (n.) A place where water boils up; a spring that wells forth.
  • (n.) A passage, as the mouth of a river or lake, where the tide meets the current; an arm of the sea; a frith.
  • (a.) Belonging to, or formed in, an estuary; as, estuary strata.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As a result, low-lying areas, including Bangladesh, Florida, the Maldives and the Netherlands, will undergo catastrophic flooding, while in Britain large areas of the Norfolk Broads and the Thames estuary could disappear.
  • (2) The gradient of increasing copper and zinc concentrations with increasing distance upstream from the mouth of the estuary reported in 1975 could not be statistically validated.
  • (3) However, other unidentified factors appear to influence its presence in certain areas of the estuary.
  • (4) The avian blood fluke, Austrobilharzia terrigalensis (Trematoda: Schistosomatidae), is recorded in Western Australia for the first time, and is implicated as the cause of dermatitis among users of the Swan estuary in Perth.
  • (5) When Matt Slater went swimming with his dog Mango in a Cornish estuary this month, he bumped into a barrel jellyfish.
  • (6) These hosts were examined from twelve different salt marshes and estuaries around the coasts of France (seven on the Channel, three on the Atlantic Ocean and two on the Mediterranean sea).
  • (7) From tackling harmful chemicals that damage the ozone layer to cracking down on the black-market ivory trade, the UK has a strong track record in driving up environmental standards across Europe.” Environmentalists said they feared a developmental free-for-all on sites shielded by the EU’s Natura 2000 scheme, including Snowdonia, the Lake District, the Thames estuary, the North Yorkshire Moors, Scotland’s Flow Country and Dartmoor.
  • (8) Colloidal organic matter in natural water systems (lakes, rivers, estuaries and the oceans, as well as groundwater) may serve as substrates for the sorption or binding of organic contaminants.
  • (9) Then last year, Shell pulled out of what would be the world's largest offshore wind farm in the Thames estuary.
  • (10) Another of the reports said Heathrow airport would have to close if the estuary scheme went ahead and that Heathrow's owners would have to be paid compensation of between £13.5bn and £21.5bn.
  • (11) The MCS has warned, however, that fragile coastal habitats such as estuaries, saltmarsh and bird sanctuaries are excluded from any proposed new routes.
  • (12) The relative importance of migrating eels and suspended particulate material (biotic and abiotic) as transporters of mirex from Lake Ontario to the St. Lawrence River Estuary is evaluated in the context of a possible adverse impact on the St. Lawrence beluga population.
  • (13) In 2010, the government rejected a previous proposal for a barrage across the Severn estuary , reiterating plans at the same time to push ahead with Europe's most ambitious fleet of new nuclear reactors .
  • (14) The presence of so many seals is good news for the Thames Estuary, which was declared biologically dead in the 1950s as a result of heavy pollution, but has since largely recovered.
  • (15) The London Array will be built in the outer Thames estuary, 12 miles off the Kent and Essex coasts, and when finished will have 271 turbines across a 90 square mile site.
  • (16) mare and foal left out in todays high tide on loughour estuary The ponies are left unattended during all weather on the loughour estuary, during high tides the foals quite often die.
  • (17) At electoral ward level regression analyses were suggestive of links between AML and higher social class and living close to estuaries.
  • (18) More than a half million pounds of DDT were applied to control mosquitoes in salt marsh estuaries of Cape May County, New Jersey, from 1946 to 1966.
  • (19) The refinery was working largely as usual, with steam pouring from vents on the complex of pipes, chimneys and girders which towers over the flatlands of the Humber estuary's south shore.
  • (20) A small risk of flooding remains in the lower reaches of several slow-moving, major rivers where water from upstream will not finish moving down to estuaries until late on Thursday.

Ocean


Definition:

  • (n.) The whole body of salt water which covers more than three fifths of the surface of the globe; -- called also the sea, or great sea.
  • (n.) One of the large bodies of water into which the great ocean is regarded as divided, as the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic and Antarctic oceans.
  • (n.) An immense expanse; any vast space or quantity without apparent limits; as, the boundless ocean of eternity; an ocean of affairs.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the main or great sea; as, the ocean waves; an ocean stream.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There are no oceans wide enough to stop us from dreaming.
  • (2) Undaunted by the sickening swell of the ocean and wrapped up against the chilly wind, Straneo, of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, one of the world's leading oceanographic research centres, continues to take measurements from the waters as the long Arctic dusk falls.
  • (3) I hope they fight for the money to make their jobs worth doing, because it's only with the money (a drop in the ocean though it may be) that they'll be able to do anything.
  • (4) n. from the body cavity of Scomber scombrus from the Indian ocean is described.
  • (5) Its first two features, Earth and Oceans , together took nearly $200m worldwide.
  • (6) They’ve already collaborated with folks like DOOM, Ghostface Killah and Frank Ocean; I was lucky enough to hear a sneak peek of their incredible collaboration with Future Islands’ Sam Herring from their forthcoming album.
  • (7) The worldwide pattern of movement of DDT residues appears to be from the land through the atmosphere into the oceans and into the oceanic abyss.
  • (8) An international team led by Luciano Iess at the Sapienza University in Rome inferred the existence of the ocean after taking a series of exquisite measurements made during three fly-bys between April 2010 and May 2012, which brought the Cassini spacecraft within 100km of the surface of Enceladus.
  • (9) While winds gusting to 170mph caused significant damage, the devastation in areas such as Tacloban – where scenes are reminiscent of the 2004 Indian ocean tsunami – was principally the work of the 6-metre-high storm surge, which carried away even the concrete buildings in which many people sought shelter.
  • (10) India will have three carriers and both China and India are building blue-water [ocean-going] navies.
  • (11) Similar organisms were found in the water at the site of the accident in Boston, and at ocean bathing beaches on nearby Martha's Vineyard.
  • (12) Australia is hoping to put a permanent end to Japan's annual slaughter of hundreds of whales in the Southern Ocean, in a landmark legal challenge that begins this week.
  • (13) An empirical rate expression was developed from experimental data which led to a prediction that the natural rate of oxidation in the ocean is about 0.023 micromoles of As(III) per liter each year.
  • (14) The melting of sea ice, ice caps and glaciers across the planet is one of the clearest signs of global warming and the UK-led team of scientists will use the data from CryoSat-2 to track how this is affecting ocean currents, sea levels and the overall global climate.
  • (15) It cannot be established whether or not seasickness contributed to the cause of death in the case of the Ocean Ranger victims, but it did occur in 75% or more of TEMPSC occupants in the other four rig disasters.
  • (16) Total concentrations can range from a few parts per million in non-polluted intertidal and oceanic areas to parts per thousand in heavily contaminated estuarine, lake and near-shore environments.
  • (17) Campbell said that if all signatories to the convention killed as many minke whales as Japan does, then more than 83,000 would be slaughtered in the Southern Ocean every year.
  • (18) The French president, François Hollande, summoned key ministers to a crisis meeting on Thursday afternoon, postponing a planned visit to France's Indian Ocean territories.
  • (19) The outcome is a belief that the Earth is being slowly strangled by a gaudy coat of impermeable plastic waste that collects in great floating islands in the world's oceans; clogs up canals and rivers; and is swallowed by animals, birds and sea creatures.
  • (20) He added that if the DigitalGlobe satellites are normally designed for analysis of land masses, not ocean searches.