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  2. Glossary of nautical terms (A–L) - Wikipedia

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    Used in the Netherlands for coast and canal traffic and occasionally in the North Sea, but more frequently used in the Mediterranean Sea. bilge 1. The part of the hull that the ship rests on if it takes the ground; the outer end of the floors. The "turn of the bilge" is the part of the hull that changes from the (approximately) vertical sides ...

  3. Glossary of nautical terms (M–Z) - Wikipedia

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    Any unusually large wave for a given sea state; formally, a wave whose height is more than twice the significant wave height of that sea state (i.e. the mean of the largest third of waves in a wave record). roll 1. The side-to-side motion of a vessel as it rotates about the fore-aft (longitudinal) axis.

  4. List of tautological place names - Wikipedia

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    Winterbourne Stream, East Sussex, UK — bourne meaning a stream that only flows in winter. River Wissey (the "ey" part of the name means "river") Withlacoochee River, Withlacoochee probably comes from the Muskogean word meaning "little river." Bakkárholtsá in the Ölfus region of Iceland. The river was originally named Bakká, "Bank River ...

  5. List of ports in Spain - Wikipedia

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    Map showing the location of the ports listed on this page. The following is a list of the ports in Spain declared to be of "general interest" and thus, under the exclusive competence of the General Administration of the State. [1]

  6. List of seas on Earth - Wikipedia

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    This includes but is not limited to marginal seas, and this is the definition used for inclusion in this list. A marginal sea is a division of an ocean, partially enclosed by islands, archipelagos, or peninsulas, adjacent to or widely open to the open ocean at the surface, and/or bounded by submarine ridges on the sea floor. [7] The World Ocean.

  7. East Sea - Wikipedia

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    East Sea or Eastern Sea may refer to: East China Sea, a marginal sea east of China, where it is called Dōnghǎi (东海 / 東海) in Chinese, meaning "East Sea" East Sea (Chinese literature), one of the Four Seas, a literary name for the boundaries of China; South China Sea, a marginal sea south of China and east and south of Indochina, called ...

  8. List of Spanish words of Nahuatl origin - Wikipedia

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    This word ending—thought to be difficult for Spanish speakers to pronounce at the time—evolved in Spanish into a "-te" ending (e.g. axolotl = ajolote). As a rule of thumb, a Spanish word for an animal, plant, food or home appliance widely used in Mexico and ending in "-te" is highly likely to have a Nahuatl origin.

  9. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...