(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.
Zonal
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a zone; having the form of a zone or zones.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mononucleosomes obtained from labeled cells were fractionated by rate zonal sedimentation through a sucrose gradient in heavy water (Senshu et al.
(2) The combined use of zonal ventilation and the coverall achieved ultra-clean air conditions.
(3) The activities and zonal distribution of key enzymes of carbohydrate metabolism were studied in livers of diabetic rats.
(4) 8.22pm BST 42 mins Now it's a US corner and a chance to exploit the German zonal marking.
(5) mRNA isolated late in adenovirus infection was separated into three size classes by zonal sedimentation.
(6) soluble proteins, histones, non-histone chromosomal proteins and residual proteins, vary within the different classes of rat liver nuclei fractionated by zonal centrifugation.
(7) The method of zonal rheography of the lungs may be used in the diagnosis of pulmonary hypertension.
(8) The zonal separation of glucose release and uptake appears to be important for the liver to operate as a 'glucostat'.
(9) Soluble heat aggregates of [125I]IgG (A-IgG) were prepared and separated by gel filtration or by zonal ultracentrifugation, and fractions containing different size aggregates were then analyzed by reultracentrifugation.
(10) Pancreas of the cat was fractionated into its subcellular components by centrifugation through an exponential ficoll-sucrose density gradient in a zonal rotor.
(11) The increase in HDL, as studied by rate zonal ultracentrifugation, was heterogeneous with changes in the HDL2 as well as HDL3 subfractions.
(12) The authors conclude stressing the clinical and prognostic importance of global evaluation of kinetic alterations resulting from zonal changes in the entire complex of the locomotor system.
(13) Both zonal and frontal elution approaches have been developed, essentially in parallel, for analytical affinity chromatography.
(14) Zonal Vct and percent shortening along the proximal, middle and distal chords were measured.
(15) In most cases, osteoporotics and controls, the abnormal uptake was of the zonal type in a localized area, probably reflecting bone remodeling due to localized degenerative changes.
(16) Proteins formed in vitro were analyzed by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, rate-zonal centrifugation in urea-sucrose gradients, two-dimensional tryptic peptide fingerprints, and immunoprecipitation with rabbit anti-Sindbis virus serum.
(17) Liver sections were hybridized with 3H-labeled RNA transcripts of a P-450e cDNA that recognizes sequences of both P-450b and P-450e mRNAs and the pattern of zonal mRNA induction was measured by quantitative image analysis.
(18) Separation of large lysosomal vacuoles which contained p-nitrophenylphosphatase activity was obtained and these were clearly resolved from mitochondria by both high-speed and rate zonal centrifugation.
(19) In the context of Reye syndrome, fatty acids would seem to have been the toxins most likely responsible for the pathogenesis of the peripheral zonal degeneration and necrosis in the liver.
(20) Electron microscopic examination of the rod-shaped ghost cells revealed a zonal gap in the cell envelope, allowing the free release of the nucleoid.