Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The waves of the sea as they break upon a shore or reef.
- v. To engage in surfing.
- v. Informal To look at a variety of things casually, especially while browsing the Internet or television channels.
- v. To ride on or along (a wave) on a surfboard.
- v. To engage in surfing at: had never surfed Malibu Beach.
- v. Informal To browse (the Internet or television channels, for example).
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The swell of the sea which breaks upon the shore, or upon banks or rocks.
- n. Synonyms See wave.
- n. The bottom or conduit of a drain.
Wiktionary
- n. Waves that break on an ocean shoreline.
- n. UK, dialect The bottom of a drain.
- v. To ride a wave, usually on a surfboard.
- v. To browse the Internet.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The swell of the sea which breaks upon the shore, esp. upon a sloping beach.
- n. Prov. Eng. The bottom of a drain.
WordNet 3.0
- v. ride the waves of the sea with a surfboard
- v. look around casually and randomly, without seeking anything in particular
- n. waves breaking on the shore
- v. switch channels, on television
Etymologies
- Maybe suffe, of uncertain origin. (Wiktionary)
- Origin unknown. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The mangoes are plentiful, the surf is awesome and you don't have to turn on the hotwater heater.”
“Vinton Gray Cerf (born June 23, 1943) (last name pronounced just like the English word "surf") is an American computer scientist who is commonly referred to as one of the "founding fathers of the Internet" for his key technical and managerial role, together with Bob Kahn, in the creation of the Internet and the TCP protocols which it uses.”
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“Vinton Gray Cerf (born June 23, 1943) (last name pronounced just like the English word "surf") is an American computer scientist who is commonly referred to as one of the”
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“These two continued like this for the rest of the episode and it all seemed like a lot of immature disses in surf speak.”
“Its now buried in a storage room with all my surf plugs weights, leaders, ect. as surf is not very common around Illinois, although it comes out now and then for Kings in lake Michigan or carp.”
“The ambiance of the sun and pounding surf is the spice, which draws, and what it brings, certainly brought us.”
“For the most part they still target segments (like people who have been to a certain Web site or surf from a certain geographical location) instead of individuals and in most cases just audiences (like everyone from www. forbes.com or another destination).”
“Heading for Australia, he had stopped off for a week to find out if there were any thrills in surf-riding, and he had become wedded to it.”
“Its surf is rarely rough, its water constantly warm and the sole-massaging sand stretches in a wide, welcoming wedge to a far-distant surprise of rocks behind which spreads another seeming never-ending arc of yellow sand to La Manzanilla.”
Mexico's endless Pacific beach: sun, surf, sand, seafood and solitude
“Fishing the surf is good as is fishing off of jetties to get started cheap.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘surf’.
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Sweet tooth fairy dominoes
As originally suggested on sweet tooth fairy domino:
Each person adds one word trying to create a single, potentially infinite sweet tooth fairy (please look it up if you are not familiar wit...banana, boat, house, arrest, warrant, peace, sign, post, box, clever, Hans, device and 119 more...
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Waves and Waveforms
wave, brainwave, soliton, traveling wave, tidal wave, transverse wave, capillary wave, cats' paws, alpha wave, light wave, microwave, acoustic wave and 314 more...
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((Eye)) CBS = I See B.S.
Input limited to 30 seconds, so we needed to find cost-effective ways to become a part of your life. Uninvited houseguest technology: the link technique, thoughts as real estate. The full potential...
joy, dodge, ram, monster, coke, snuggle, gateway, ivory, life, subway, crunch, crest and 151 more...
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wile away
words for passing time
shilly-shally, procrastinate, dawdle, dilly-dally, wile, idle, loaf, loiter, idyll, putz, surf, trifle and 1 more...
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Technology
forum, profile, identify, register, user, community, sign in, text, address, inbox, key, screen and 53 more...
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Costa Vida
The Costal Life
surf, carve, tubular, rip curl, curl, froth, floater, tweak, wafting, off the wall, pocket, rad and 39 more...
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Purr words
Please add one snarl word for every purr word, in the interests of harmony.
Note: this list is for purr words. Snarl words belong on the other list, not this one. Only purr words need ...bumblebee, kitten, hummingbird, turtledove, felt, daffodil, hourglass, surf, satyr, gloved, honeyed, raspberry and 9 more...
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Words I like
This is a list of my favourite words (phrases) in english, as a second language. I love them mostly because of how they sound and their meaning.
ninja, cookie, skill, zip, plentiful, digg, debris, pancake, cucumber, fetch, pot, backpack and 461 more...
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ideas out loud
bandwagon, middle, via, web, fly, thru, safety, thor, swoosh, top, network effect, matrix and 200 more...
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Bird Wirds: Adjectives
Adjectives used in actual (non-taxonomic) bird names, past and present.
roseate, glossy, whooping, neotropic, pelagic, ferruginous, crested, whiskered, marbled, tufted, horned, eared and 818 more...
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TT2 Lesson 13
magnificent, island, remote, major, land mass, archipeligo, consist, inhabit, inhabitant, inhabited, southernmost, Oahu and 82 more...
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Technologic
The song by Daft Punk. Just add "it" to the end of these.
buy, use, break, fix, trash, change, melt, upgrade, pawn, zoom, press, snap and 49 more...
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list
moon, rose, sea, beach, surf, fish, sun, water, eye, cloud, lasagna, chocolate and 17 more...
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coastal
tidal, strait, shore, peninsula, barnacle, wharf, shoal, pebble, halyard, kiosk, kayak, beachcomber and 5 more...
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maniacalcam's Words
maniacal, salubrious, veld, winter, morass, insipid, morose, lecherous, surly, jiffer, dipshit, erstwhile and 9 more...
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beachcombing
seashell, anemone, aquamarine, sand dollar, kelp, tide, ebb, lighthouse, quay, parasol, harbor, pacific and 27 more...
Tweets
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