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EARTH'S SURFACE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The outermost level of the land or sea
Example:
three quarters of the Earth's surface is covered by water
Synonyms:
Earth's surface; surface
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("Earth's surface" is a kind of...):
layer (a relatively thin sheetlike expanse or region lying over or under another)
Meronyms (parts of "Earth's surface"):
body of water; water (the part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean))
gap; opening (an open or empty space in or between things)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Earth's surface"):
floor (the bottom surface of any lake or other body of water)
floor (the lower inside surface of any hollow structure)
Holonyms ("Earth's surface" is a part of...):
geosphere; lithosphere (the solid part of the earth consisting of the crust and outer mantle)
Context examples:
Despite covering less than one percent of Earth's surface area, ancient lakes contain almost half the world's fresh surface water and a large share of its freshwater biodiversity.
(Ancient lakes: eyes into the past, and the future, National Science Foundation)
A unit of pressure equal to 0.001316 atmosphere and equal to the pressure indicated by one millimeter rise of mercury in a barometer at the Earth's surface.
(Millimeter of Mercury, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
Inertial force produced by accelerations or gravity, expressed in gravitational units; one G is equal to the pull of gravity at the earth's surface at sea level and 45 degrees North latitude (32.1725 ft/sec2; 980.621 cm/sec2).
(G Force, NCI Thesaurus)
I considered it a narrative of facts, and discovered in it a vein of interest deeper than what I found in fairy tales: for as to the elves, having sought them in vain among foxglove leaves and bells, under mushrooms and beneath the ground-ivy mantling old wall-nooks, I had at length made up my mind to the sad truth, that they were all gone out of England to some savage country where the woods were wilder and thicker, and the population more scant; whereas, Lilliput and Brobdignag being, in my creed, solid parts of the earth's surface, I doubted not that I might one day, by taking a long voyage, see with my own eyes the little fields, houses, and trees, the diminutive people, the tiny cows, sheep, and birds of the one realm; and the corn-fields forest-high, the mighty mastiffs, the monster cats, the tower-like men and women, of the other.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
