Ocean
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| - | [[Image:The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Hokusai.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[The Great Wave off Kanagawa]]'' (between [[1823]]-[[1829|29]], [[woodblock printing in Japan|woodblock printing]] by [[Hokusai]]]] | + | {| class="toccolours" style="float: left; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 2em; font-size: 85%; background:#c6dbf7; color:black; width:30em; max-width: 40%;" cellspacing="5" |
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| + | "Before the [[ocean]] and the [[earth]] appeared— before the [[sky|skies]] had overspread them all— the face of [[Nature]] in a vast expanse was naught but [[Chaos]] uniformly waste. It was a rude and undeveloped [[mass]], that nothing made except a ponderous weight; and all discordant elements confused, were there congested in a [[shapeless]] heap." --[[Ovid's Metamorphoses|''Metamorphoses'' by Ovid]] | ||
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| # One of the five large bodies of [[water]] separating the continents. | # One of the five large bodies of [[water]] separating the continents. | ||
| # An [[immense]] [[expanse]]; any [[vast]] space or quantity without apparent limits; as, the [[boundless]] ocean of eternity; an ocean of affairs. | # An [[immense]] [[expanse]]; any [[vast]] space or quantity without apparent limits; as, the [[boundless]] ocean of eternity; an ocean of affairs. | ||
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| + | ==See also== | ||
| + | *[[Oceanus]] | ||
| + | *''[[Ocean of Sound]]'' (1995) by David Toop | ||
| + | *[[Great Pacific garbage patch ]] | ||
| + | *[[Oceanic feeling]] | ||
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"Before the ocean and the earth appeared— before the skies had overspread them all— the face of Nature in a vast expanse was naught but Chaos uniformly waste. It was a rude and undeveloped mass, that nothing made except a ponderous weight; and all discordant elements confused, were there congested in a shapeless heap." --Metamorphoses by Ovid |
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- One of the five large bodies of water separating the continents.
- An immense expanse; any vast space or quantity without apparent limits; as, the boundless ocean of eternity; an ocean of affairs.
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See also
- Oceanus
- Ocean of Sound (1995) by David Toop
- Great Pacific garbage patch
- Oceanic feeling
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