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1. (n.) surf
the swell of the sea that breaks upon a shore or upon shoals.
2. surf
the mass or line of foamy water caused by the breaking of the sea upon a shore, esp. a shallow or sloping shore.
3. (v.i.) surf
to ride a surfboard.
4. surf
to float on the crest of a wave toward shore.
5. surf
to swim, play, or bathe in the surf.
6. surf
to search haphazardly, as for information on a computer network or an interesting program on television.
7. (v.t.) surf
to ride a surfboard on.
8. surf
to search through (a computer network or TV channels) for information or entertainment.
Etymology: (1675–85; earlier suff; of uncert. orig.)
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| Definition of 'surf' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (verb) surf, breaker, breakers
waves breaking on the shore
2. (verb) surfboard, surf
ride the waves of the sea with a surfboard
"Californians love to surf"
3. (verb) browse, surf
look around casually and randomly, without seeking anything in particular
"browse a computer directory"; "surf the internet or the world wide web"
4. (verb) surf, channel-surf
switch channels, on television
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1. (verb) surf
to stand on a surfboard and move along on a wave
I just learned to surf last summer.
2. surf
to look at different websites on the Internet or different channels on TV
to surf the Net
3. (noun) surf
waves as they fall toward the land
kids playing in the surf
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| Definition of 'surf' |
Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) surf
the swell of the sea which breaks upon the shore, esp. upon a sloping beach
2. (noun) surf
the bottom of a drain
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| Definitions of 'surf' |
The New Hacker's Dictionary |
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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.
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Sense: the foam made as waves break on rocks or on the shore
The children were playing in the white surf.
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 Afrikaans: branders |
 Arabic: زَبَد الأمواج |
 Bulgarian: морска пяна |
 Brazilian: espuma do mar |
 Czech: pěnící příboj |
 German: die Brandung |
 Danish: skum |
 Greek: ο αφρός που δημιουργείται |
 Spanish: espuma |
 Estonian: murdlainevaht, lainehari |
 Farsi: موج ساحلي |
 Finnish: tyrskyt |
 French: écume |
 Hebrew: קֶצֶף גַלִים מִשתַבְּרִים |
 Hindi: तट की समुद्री लेहरें, तरं |
 Croatian: pjena valova, udaranje mo |
 Hungarian: tajtékzó parti hullám |
 Indonesian: buih ombak |
 Icelandic: brim |
 Italian: spuma |
 Japanese: 寄せ波 |
 Korean: 밀려드는 파도 |
 Lithuanian: bangų mūša |
 Latvian: banga; viļņu putas |
 Malay: buih ombak |
 Dutch: branding |
 Norwegian: brenning |
 Polish: piana morska |
 Persian: موج ساحلي |
 Pashto: ساحلی څپه |
 Portuguese: espuma do mar |
 Romanian: val |
 Russian: прибой |
 Slovak: príboj |
 Slovenian: morska pena |
 Serbian: pena |
 Swedish: bränning[ar], vågsvall |
 Thai: คลื่นที่ซัดฝั่ง |
 Turkish: sörf, dalga köpüğü |
 Taiwanese: 浪花 |
 Ukrainian: прибій; буруни |
 Urdu: دریا یا سمندر کا جھاگ |
 Vietnamese: sóng vỗ |
 Chinese: 拍岸浪花 |
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