Word Finder - surface

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The overside or up-side of a flat object such as a table, or of a liquid.

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The outside hull of a tangible object.

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Outward or external appearance.

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On the surface, the spy looked like a typical businessman.

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The locus of an equation (especially one with exactly two degrees of freedom) in a more-than-two-dimensional space.

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(fortification) That part of the side which is terminated by the flank prolonged, and the angle of the nearest bastion.

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To provide something with a surface.

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To apply a surface to something.

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To rise to the surface.

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To bring to the surface.

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To come out of hiding.

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For information or facts to become known.

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To make information or facts known.

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To work a mine near the surface.

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To appear or be found.

The last time he went to the surface, it had rained huge raindrops.

Yet, wasn't it better if the issue didn't surface for a while?

The surface of the water ruptured, spewing a colorful fish into the air.

The agonizing memories ruptured to the surface at last, forcing a long overdue reaction.

Maybe he simply wasn't capable of having a relationship deeper than surface friendship.

The surface of the earth consists of the hydrosphere and the lithosphere.

The surface of the pond was as smooth as glass, reflecting a small fluffy cloud as it floated across the inky sky.

The machines surface this information.

You're always testing because surface changes, by the season, the time of day, how many climbers hack away at it, sometimes by the hour.

The mother dragon probably knows the road to the earth's surface, and if she went the other way then we have come the wrong way, said the Wizard, thoughtfully.

If it sank up there, it'd most likely float up to the surface after a few days or a week and then drift back down this way with the tide.

Yet in reality, five individuals, some joined by love, some nearly strangers and others with a history, that might surface and run amuck.

She maneuvered the car around washed out places and eased it over rocks that erupted from the surface of the dusty road.

More precisely, we will probably teach machines to teach themselves how to process it for us and surface findings to us.

Ice is an incredible surface.

Breaking through the surface, Gabriel gasped in a few breaths before swimming towards the shore with powerful strokes.

Long-dead instincts were near the surface, waiting for Eden to slip up, so he could take her out next.

The sounds of fighting grew faint and then disappeared.  The stream wound through the jungle until it reached a small waterfall that fed into a massive lake whose black surface reflected the stars and moon.  Katie slid down the hill beside the waterfall to the lake's edge, uncertain what to do.  Gabriel hadn't mentioned the stream ending or the lake.

Her emotions still felt too close to the surface; exhaustion would only make them worse.

He watched as Mansr expertly organized the evacuations and aligned the space battle to keep the Yirkins' attention off the ships fleeing the planet's surface for the nearest moon, Kiera.

Yet he appeared to know his course as surely under water as on the surface, and swam much faster there.

It was surprising to see how serenely he sailed off with unruffled breast when he came to the surface, doing all the work with his webbed feet beneath.

Some scars stay just below the surface.

A wave of anger came out of nowhere, surging through her veins and washing the resentment to the surface of her consciousness.

It was a pretty game, played on the smooth surface of the pond, a man against a loon.

To her own surprise a power of life and hope of happiness rose to the surface and demanded satisfaction.

Later, the serendipitous drippings were augmented by additional piping, carrying excess water to spray even more surface of the rock walls.

All seemed to be in perilously dangerous situations, clinging to the sheer walls with outstretched arms and spread legs, somehow adhered to the clear surface before them.

The general conclusion would appear to be that, while as seen from the earth's surface much of the light from the sky is due to comparatively gross suspended matter, yet an appreciable proportion is attributable to the molecules of air themselves, and that at high elevations where the blue is purer, the latter part may become predominant.

From a hilltop you can see a fish leap in almost any part; for not a pickerel or shiner picks an insect from this smooth surface but it manifestly disturbs the equilibrium of the whole lake.

But now the kind October wind rises, rustling the leaves and rippling the surface of the water, so that no loon can be heard or seen, though his foes sweep the pond with spy-glasses, and make the woods resound with their discharges.

I found that it was as well for me to rest on my oars and wait his reappearing as to endeavor to calculate where he would rise; for again and again, when I was straining my eyes over the surface one way, I would suddenly be startled by his unearthly laugh behind me.

At the advent of each individual into this life, may we not suppose that such a bar has risen to the surface somewhere?

When he had joined the Freemasons he had experienced the feeling of one who confidently steps onto the smooth surface of a bog.

Its whole surface consisted of drops closely pressed together, and all these drops moved and changed places, sometimes several of them merging into one, sometimes one dividing into many.

The pod dropped fast toward the surface, the sight of the spinning world beneath her sickening.

Elsewhere local surface currents are developed, either drifts due to the direct action of the winds, or streams produced by wind action heaping water up against the land; but these nowhere rise to the dignity of a distinct current system, although they are often sufficient to obliterate the feeble tidal action characteristic of the Mediterranean.

They saw a landscape with mountains and plains, lakes and rivers, very like those upon the earth's surface; but all the scene was splendidly colored by the variegated lights from the six suns.

In this country, as in all others they had visited underneath the earth's surface, there was no night, a constant and strong light coming from some unknown source.

White Pond and Walden are great crystals on the surface of the earth, Lakes of Light.

He watched explosions wrack his planet until they rose high enough that the toxic dust storm he'd started marred the surface of the planet from view.

Ashley's bead was lighter red in color, its surface glazed to give it a subtle reflecting quality.

They heard a crunching, grinding sound, a loud snap, and the turn-table came to a stop with its broadest surface shutting off the path from which they had come.

Standing on the smooth sandy beach at the east end of the pond, in a calm September afternoon, when a slight haze makes the opposite shore-line indistinct, I have seen whence came the expression, "the glassy surface of a lake."

The clouds far above were starting to swirl with hypnotic slowness, the rain beginning to fall again, and the sea beneath their feet rippling and shifting beneath the rubbery surface.

Though the sky was by this time overcast, the pond was so smooth that I could see where he broke the surface when I did not hear him.

His assessment tore through her mind, digging up memories and laying them bare on the surface.

She leaned forward, examining the lurking figures under the surface.

Gabriel said nothing, sensing the half-demon's explosive temper was close to the surface.

A gem bubbled to the top of the lake then dropped down, rejoining the rest of them beneath the surface.