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MARINE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A member of the United States Marine Corps
Synonyms:
devil dog; leatherneck; Marine; shipboard soldier
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Marine" is a kind of...):
man; military man; military personnel; serviceman (someone who serves in the armed forces; a member of a military force)
Domain category:
armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)
Holonyms ("Marine" is a member of...):
Marine Corps; Marines; United States Marine Corps; United States Marines; US Marine Corps; USMC (an amphibious division of the United States Navy)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A soldier who serves both on shipboard and on land
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("marine" is a kind of...):
soldier (an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Native to or inhabiting the sea
Example:
marine plants and animals such as seaweed and whales
Classified under:
Similar:
aquatic (operating or living or growing in water)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on or in the sea
Classified under:
Similar:
deep-sea (of or taking place in the deeper parts of the sea)
oceangoing; seafaring; seagoing (used on the high seas)
oceanic (constituting or living in the open sea)
offshore (at some distance from the shore)
oversea; overseas (being or passing over or across the sea)
subocean; suboceanic (formed or situated or occurring beneath the ocean or the ocean bed)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Of or relating to the sea
Example:
marine explorations
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
sea (a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Of or relating to military personnel who serve both on land and at sea (specifically the U.S. Marine Corps)
Example:
marine barracks
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Domain region:
America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)
Pertainym:
Marine Corps (an amphibious division of the United States Navy)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen
Example:
marine insurance
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
navigation (ship traffic)
Context examples:
A complex macrolide polyether from marine sponge genera, such as Halichondria, Axinella, Phakellia, and Lissodendoryx that binds to tubulin, thereby inhibiting mitosis.
(Halichondrin B, NCI Thesaurus)
A compound isolated from the marine sponge Pseudaxinyssa cantharella exhibiting anti-tumor activity.
(Girodazole, NCI Thesaurus)
The mesylate salt of a synthetic analogue of halichondrin B, a substance derived from a marine sponge (Lissodendoryx sp.) with antineoplastic activity.
(Eribulin mesylate, NCI Thesaurus)
A taxonomic family of marine and soil borne bacterium in the phylum Bacteroidetes that includes the genera Capnocytophaga, Chryseobacterium, Elizabethkingia and Flavobacterium among others.
(Flavobacteriaceae, NCI Thesaurus)
"We know warming oceans pose a threat to coral reefs around the world," said Allison Tracy, who conducted the work with marine scientist Drew Harvell.
(Sea fan corals face new threat in warming ocean: copper, National Science Foundation)
Wax esters are also an important lipid in the oceans worldwide, at times storing at least half the carbon produced by plant-like marine organisms.
(Whales may owe their efficient digestion to millions of tiny microbes, National Science Foundation)
The researcher said this marine animal could be dreaming, as the different colors are the same camouflage she uses when hunting and eating prey while awake.
(Octopuses can dream, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The cephalostatins comprise a family of more than 30 trisdecacyclic bissteroidal pyrazines with extreme cytotoxicity against human tumors, isolated from the African marine worm Cephalodiscus gilchristi.
(Cephalostatin, NCI Thesaurus)
Once deposited there, their iron content could be enough to boost the productivity of marine phytoplankton, feeding new blooms of these microscopic algae and altering ocean ecosystems.
(Sleeping sands of the Kalahari awaken after more than 10,000 years, NSF)
B lentus is found in soil, marine waters and sediments and is resistant to nalidixic acid and streptomycin and utilized in the biotechnology industry as a sources of alkaline proteases.
(Bacillus lentus, NCI Thesaurus)
