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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
surf
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
channel surfing
kite surfing
surf 'n' turf
surf the Internet (=look at different websites)
▪ She spends hours surfing the Internet every evening.
surfing the Net (=looking at information in different places on the Internet)
▪ Bruce spends most evenings surfing the Net.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
internet
▪ Who spends an inordinate number of work hours surfing the Internet?
▪ When she is not doing work for her church, Stroup is surfing the Internet for more information about her Maine ancestors.
net
▪ We give them quizzes on Britain and allow them to surf the net.
▪ So a user could be surfing the Net at warp speed while talking on the phone.
▪ A recent survey shows that about half of all users surf the Net from their homes.
▪ At the other end of the spectrum is the so-called Internet appliance, the very low-cost device for just surfing the Net.
▪ It was the year of spinoffs, surging financial markets and surfing the Net.
web
▪ But if you just want to use your computer for word-processing or web-surfing, avoid it like the plague.
▪ Unless your son catches on to the research potential on the Web, surfing can be pretty passive.
▪ Instead of congressional intervention, Waxman encouraged parents to begin paying closer attention to their children's Web surfing.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
extreme sports/surfing/skiing etc
▪ The explosion of extreme sports in recent years has produced an unprecedented number of ultra-endurance races.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Many youngsters spend hours surfing the net.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ So a user could be surfing the Net at warp speed while talking on the phone.
▪ We give them quizzes on Britain and allow them to surf the net.
▪ You open a Beenz account and then surf about.
II.noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Again and again the lifeboat was thrown back by the surf.
▪ Ahead of them, Trent could hear the surf smashing on the reef, heavy now and threatening.
▪ Fortunately it wasn't the usual Aussie surf!
▪ He came out of the surf exhausted and starving and naked.
▪ If the surf is really big, it sounds like a constant low roar.
▪ The initial report was: Child in surf.
▪ Then the rod-man screamed, arm pointing straight ahead at the surf.
▪ You will see groups of them clustered way out beyond the breaking surf waiting for the best waves.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Surf

Surf \Surf\, n. [Formerly spelled suffe, and probably the same word as E. sough.] The swell of the sea which breaks upon the shore, esp. upon a sloping beach.

Surf bird (Zo["o]l.), a ploverlike bird of the genus Aphriza, allied to the turnstone.

Surf clam (Zo["o]l.), a large clam living on the open coast, especially Mactra solidissima (syn. Spisula solidissima). See Mactra.

Surf duck (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of sea ducks of the genus Oidemia, especially Oidemia percpicillata; -- called also surf scoter. See the Note under Scoter.

Surf fish (Zo["o]l.), any one of numerous species of California embiotocoid fishes. See Embiotocoid.

Surf smelt. (Zo["o]l.) See Smelt.

Surf whiting. (Zo["o]l.) See under Whiting.

Surf

Surf \Surf\, n. The bottom of a drain. [Prov. Eng.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
surf

1680s, probably from earlier suffe (1590s), of uncertain origin. Originally used in reference to the coast of India, hence perhaps of Indic origin. Or perhaps a phonetic respelling of sough, which meant "a rushing sound."

surf

"ride the crest of a wave," 1917, from surf (n.). Related: Surfed; surfing. In the Internet sense, first recorded 1993.

Wiktionary
surf

n. waves that break on an ocean shoreline. vb. 1 To ride a wave, usually on a surfboard. 2 To browse the Internet.

WordNet
surf

n. waves breaking on the shore [syn: breaker, breakers]

surf
  1. v. ride the waves of the sea with a surfboard; "Californians love to surf"

  2. look around casually and randomly, without seeking anything in particular; "browse a computer directory"; "surf the internet or the world wide web" [syn: browse]

  3. switch channels, on television [syn: channel-surf]

Gazetteer
Wikipedia
Surf

Surf is the wave activity in the area between the shoreline and outer limit of breakers. It may refer to a breaking wave in shallow water, upon the shore, or in the area in which waves break.

Surf may also refer to:

Surf (Roddy Frame album)

Surf is the second solo album by Scottish singer–songwriter Roddy Frame, first released in the UK on 5 August 2002 via Redemption Records, and in the US on 8 October 2002 via Cooking Vinyl. Surf is notable in that every song on the album was recorded in Roddy Frame's "own front room".

Surf (web browser)

surf is a minimalist web browser developed by suckless.org. The user interface of this browser does not include any graphical control elements; it is controlled via keyboard shortcuts or external tools, which may manipulate its behavior by setting its window's properties.

Surf (detergent)

Surf is the name of a brand of laundry detergent made by Unilever and sold in India, Ireland, South Africa and many other countries. In the United States, the Surf product line is owned by Sun Products. The brand Omo was used when it was introduced in Australia and New Zealand. Currently in Australia and South Africa, Surf as well as Omo are sold and they are both top-selling laundry detergents in Australia. Surf was introduced in 1959 after Rinso, formerly Lever's best selling detergent brand, had declined in both sales and market share. Formulations of the detergent and the market segment targeted vary by region; in some countries Unilever also markets Persil detergent (but in others Persil is a Henkel brand).

Surf (Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment album)

Surf is the debut studio album by American band The Social Experiment; it was released exclusively on iTunes as a free download on May 28, 2015. The album highlights trumpeter, Nico Segal, and was created by Segal along with his band of collaborators called The Social Experiment — a self-described group of bohemian musicians, consisting of Donnie Trumpet, Chance the Rapper, Peter Cottontale, Greg Landfair Jr. and Nate Fox. The album was highly anticipated because of Chance's heavy involvement with the group, contributing vocals and some of the arrangements to the album. Surf was downloaded 618,000 times via iTunes in its first week, with over 10 million individual track downloads.

Usage examples of "surf".

Saturday, 18870618:1900 Four hours after they had begun to trickle through the beach gate, the women of Joy Hall, even the most reluctant Sarah, were still happily engaged in gossip, comparison of the males, claims of sexual prowess, reminiscences of Earth, wading in the surf, and general appreciation of the great open vistas.

But they were all bitchen bros permanently stoked on each other, brewski, and ripping surf.

Hen Gian spit into the surf and cursed, but this time Brine did not understand the language and no blue swirls cut the air.

I put my head down and played up to the High Hole, the sixteenth, stopping there to listen as the surf pounded the shore and to watch as the high winds flung the marram grass back and forth.

When the tugs came gently aground, Greg and Naomi dragged a heavy cable through the light surf and dove with it, giving the newsie something to photograph.

Nothing broke the stillness but the murmuring hum of the surf, and the strange weird rustle of the wind as it soughed through the groves of pandanus and coco-palms.

Rogo and I had worked up a game involving our polywater bed, which he loved bouncing around on, especially when it was rolling like surf.

Thousands of men, women, and children were tossing about in the lively surf promiscuously, revealing to the spectators such forms as Nature had given them, with a modest confidence in her handiwork.

Nita and Quelt and Kit with seawaterhe had managed to get in and out of the surf several times while chasing the flying sheep.

The surf pounded the bluffs and boiled over the sunken ledges that ringed the island, leaving a scurf of foam that trailed like the wake of a boat.

Dodging tourists was part of living in Seavy Village -- just like the traffic and the foggy mornings and the pounding surf in the middle of the night.

I wish I could go off by myself and surf or snowboard someplace really major and let Tre do all the housework for a change.

The two girls, sitting together in the light surf, who had been surreptitiously focused on the men, now stood up, eyes wide, their mouths falling open.

The girl, body gleaming wetly, beads of foam upon head, pubes and underarms, rose lissomely from the surf and stood before him.

Sombrely he watched the figures flashing in the surf, the lithe runners, and the knots of women engaged in discussion, jumping down from his perch once when a large wave strangled a wader, immediately resuming it when the injury proved slight.