SURF

surf, breaker, breakers

(noun) waves breaking on the shore

surf, channel-surf

(verb) switch channels, on television

browse, surf

(verb) look around casually and randomly, without seeking anything in particular; “browse a computer directory”; “surf the internet or the world wide web”

surfboard, surf

(verb) ride the waves of the sea with a surfboard; “Californians love to surf”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

surf (countable and uncountable, plural surfs)

Waves that break on an ocean shoreline.

An instance or session of riding a surfboard in the surf.

(UK, dialect) The bottom of a drain.

Verb

surf (third-person singular simple present surfs, present participle surfing, simple past and past participle surfed)

To ride a wave, usually on a surfboard.

(ambitransitive) To browse the Internet, television, etc.

Anagrams

• Furs, furs

Source: Wiktionary


Surf, n. Etym: [Formerly spelled suffe, and probably the same word as E. sough.]

Definition: The swell of the sea which breaks upon the shore, esp. upon a sloping beach. Surf bird (Zoöl.), a ploverlike bird of the genus Aphriza, allied to the turnstone.

– Surf clam (Zoöl.), a large clam living on the open coast, especially Mactra, or Spisula, solidissima. See Mactra.

– Surf duck (Zoöl.), any one of several species of sea ducks of the genus Oidemia, especially O. percpicillata; -- called also surf scoter. See the Note under Scoter.

– Surf fish (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of California embiotocoid fishes. See Embiotocoid.

– Surf smelt. (Zoöl.) See Smelt.

– Surf whiting. (Zoöl.) See under Whiting.

Surf, n.

Definition: The bottom of a drain. [Prov. Eng.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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