marine

comparative more marine · superlative most marine

1. Belonging to or characteristic of the sea; existing or found in the sea; formed or produced by the sea.

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   Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field. Dr Mincer and Dr Amaral-Zettler found evidence of them on their marine plastic, too.

   2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845

2. Relating to or connected with the sea (in operation, scope, etc.), especially as pertains to shipping, a navy, or naval forces.
3. Used or adapted for use at sea.
4. biologyInhabiting the high seas; oceanic; pelagic. (distinguished from maritime or littoral)
5. obsoleteBelonging to or situated at the seaside; maritime.
6. Of or concerning underwater conditions, either saltwater or freshwater ones, and the equipment used therein.

   This grease is suitable for marine use.

plural marines

1. governmentA soldier, normally a member of a marine corps, trained to serve on board or from a ship.

   He was a marine in World War II.

2. capitalizedin pluralA marine corps.

   He fought with the Marines in World War II.

3. A painting representing some marine subject.
4. archaicAny fleet of ships (commercial, military, or both).

   Synonyms: navy

present singular third person marines · participle present marining · participle past marined · past marined

1. To adapt for use in a marine environment.

   Marine engines, until 1949, included many truck engine blocks marined up.

   1959, SAE Technical Paper Series, page 70

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   The most popular model is the Chrysler 75 marined motor. This motor comes fully marined and fully reconditioned at $ 225 at Oakland.

   1938, Pacific Motor Boat - Volume 31, page 54

   Frank Kennedy Sr. and Jr. watch mechanic make an adjustment on one of the two Minneapolis-Moline industrial diesel engines being marined by Kennedy-Morris Co., Biloxi, Miss.

   1956, Fishing Gazette - Volume 73, page 94

   First was in Jimmy Pope's “Willow Point,” and both units were marined in Vancouver by Nolan Lowe, in his plant at 1925 W. Georgia St., Vancouver.

   1964, “New I-H Diesel Adds Two Knots to Dragger's Speed”, in Western Fisheries, volume 68, page 101

   This type of protection is of particular value in case of buried structures such as tanks and pipelines, transmission line towers, marined piers, laid-up ships etc.

   2010, S. S. Dara, S. D. Shete, S. Chand’s Applied Chemistry Volume - 2, page 31

2. To temporarily inundate with water and/or other marine substances.

   I decided to love its drenching monopolies for it was like this: cartels of imported rain marined the yard with brackish-water jellies.

   2006, Robin Becker, “Rain”, in Domain of Perfect Affection

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   "And Baptiste? It is there he is. The trunks of Monsieru to the number 12, and let it not loiter. And hey!" she cried with much haughtiness to an interloper who had opened the cab-door and was now officious in the transfer of the luggage, “ And hey, species of calf's head marined in mud, go, I pray you, a little that way and see if I there am."

   1893, Edgar Saltus, Madam Sapphira: A Fifth Avenue Story, page 97

   As will be seen from this very sparing representation of indeterminable brachiopods etc. , this fauna can hardly be regarded as indicating marine submergence, for the shells of these organisms could just as readily have been swept in with the graptolites during the periods of marining.

   1937, Amadeus William Grabau, Palæozoic Formations in the Light of the Pulsation Theory, page 271

3. To equip (a boat) with sailors and other personnel required for an ocean voyage.

   And now, having marined this Royal Harry with as large a complement of men as I could muster, shall launch her.

   1863, William Kirby, William Spence, An Introduction to Entomology, page 569

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   Just as we had got the ship's head towards the stranger , with every stitch of canvas crowded upon her , and the eight-oared cutter, manned, armed, and marined, towing astern, they had got the captured West Indiaman before the wind, with everything set.

   1903, Captain Marryat, Rattlin, the Reefer, page 188

   The American coastwise laws provide that only American vessels , marined by American sailors at from $40 to $160 per month, can engage in the coastwise trade between states

   1913, Lumber World Review - Volume 24, page 33

1. not comparableOf, or pertaining to, a marine corps.

plural Marines

1. A member of a marine corps.