What does SURF mean?

Definitions for SURF
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Princeton's WordNet

  1. surf, breaker, breakersverb

    waves breaking on the shore

  2. surfboard, surfverb

    ride the waves of the sea with a surfboard

    "Californians love to surf"

  3. browse, surfverb

    look around casually and randomly, without seeking anything in particular

    "browse a computer directory"; "surf the internet or the world wide web"

  4. surf, channel-surfverb

    switch channels, on television

Wiktionary

  1. surfnoun

    Waves that break on an ocean shoreline.

  2. surfnoun

    The bottom of a drain.

  3. surfverb

    To ride a wave, usually on a surfboard.

  4. surfverb

    To browse the Internet.

  5. Etymology: Maybe suffe, of uncertain origin.

ChatGPT

  1. surf

    Surf is the wave activity in the area between the shoreline and outer limit of breakers. It commonly refers to the act of riding these waves with a surfboard, which can be either lying down, kneeling, or standing up. Surf can also refer to the conditions or quality of the waves, as in "good surf" or "bad surf".

Webster Dictionary

  1. Surfnoun

    the swell of the sea which breaks upon the shore, esp. upon a sloping beach

  2. Surfnoun

    the bottom of a drain

  3. Etymology: [Formerly spelled suffe, and probably the same word as E. sough.]

Wikidata

  1. Surf

    Surf is the name of a brand of laundry detergent made by Unilever and sold in the India, Ireland, South Africa and many other countries. In the United States the Surf product line is owned by Sun Products. The brand Omo was used when it was introduced in Australia and New Zealand but in Australia, Surf as well as Omo are sold and they are both top- selling laundry detergents in Australia. Surf was introduced in 1959 after Rinso, formerly Lever's best selling detergent brand, had declined in both sales and market share. Formulations of the detergent and the market segment targeted vary by region; in some countries Unilever also markets Persil detergent.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Surf

    surf, n. the foam made by the dashing of waves.—ns. Surf′-bird, a plover-like bird found on the Pacific coasts of North and South America, akin to sandpipers and turnstones, and sometimes called Boreal sandpiper and Plover-billed turnstone; Surf′-duck, the scoter (q.v.); Surf′man, one skilful in handling boats in surf.—adj. Surf′y. [Skeat explains the r as intrusive, and suggests that suffe is the same as 'sough of the sea,' M. E. swough, swoughen, swowen—A.S. swógan, to make a rushing sound.]

The New Hacker's Dictionary

  1. surf

    [from the ‘surf’ idiom for rapidly flipping TV channels] To traverse the Internet in search of interesting stuff, used esp. if one is doing so with a World Wide Web browser. It is also common to speak of surfing in to a particular resource.Hackers adopted this term early, but many have stopped using it since it went completely mainstream around 1995. The passive, couch-potato connotations that go with TV channel surfing were never pleasant, and hearing non-hackers wax enthusiastic about “surfing the net” tends to make hackers feel a bit as though their home is being overrun by ignorami.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. surf

    The swell and foam of the sea, which breaks upon the shore, or any rock lying near the surface. The most violent surfs are those which break upon a flat shore, as on the Coromandel and African coasts.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of SURF in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of SURF in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of SURF in a Sentence

  1. Nik Zanella:

    Every time we went back, the people we had coached were still doing it and they had taught some other people to do it, so there’s a little surf scene that was growing.

  2. Dan Kottlowski:

    We are expecting very rough and dangerous surf along with damaging tropical-storm-force and hurricane-force winds over the northern Leeward Islands, and tropical-storm-force winds over the southern Leewards to perhaps the northern Windward Islands, mostly in gusts.

  3. David Hicks:

    They are also soft-bodied, so they are often broken apart by the time they get through the surf zone and deposited on the shore.

  4. Rob Hueter:

    North Carolina is a fairly sharky place and I think it’s happening there because the beaches are full of surf. It’s a high-energy beach. You’ve got sharks in close to shore because they are feeding. believe me this is multiple sharks, multiple people getting bitten.

  5. Nik Zanella:

    We taught maybe 100 people on the first trip, and they were stoked, every time we went back, the people we had coached were still doing it and they had taught some other people to do it, so there’s a little surf scene that was growing.

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