Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Deep-sea \Deep"-sea`\, a. Of or pertaining to the deeper parts of the sea; as, a deep-sea line (i. e., a line to take soundings at a great depth); deep-sea lead; deep-sea soundings, explorations, etc.
2. at some distance from the shore; as, deep-sea fishing.
Syn: offshore.
3. taking place in the deeper parts of the sea; as, deep-sea exploration.
Wiktionary
a. of, related to or located in the deeper part of the sea
WordNet
adj. of or taking place in the deeper parts of the sea; "deep-sea fishing"; "deep-sea exploration"
Usage examples of "deep-sea".
The cells in the culture were Archaeons, bacterialike marine organisms collected from deep-sea thermal vents.
This was the easiest way to tell them apart, the fact that Chubby wore the three-piece suit which he had bought for his wedding - the buttons straining and gaping, and the deep-sea cap stained with salt crystals and fish blood on his head - while his wife wore a full-length black dress of heavy wool, faded greenish with age, and black button-up boots beneath.
MBARI team that conducted the sequestration trial also monitored the impact on deep-sea creatures.
Albrecht Amsel was known as a wholesale purchaser of fresh-water fish as well as deep-sea fish: chests of the lightest pinewood, golden yellow and packed full of smoked flounder, smoked eel, sprats both loose and bundled, lampreys, codfish roe, and strongly or subtly smoked Vistula salmon, with the inscription: A.
There was great fanfare and celebration on the day the Marmor Deep-Sea Aquarium was officially opened to the public at a site adjoining the Marmor Marine Laboratory.
The executive, whom my husband had met and who had a pappus of hair sprouting from each red ear, owned a state-of-the-art boat and rod and reel, and apparently deep-sea fished without hooks.
Jack is a skilled deep-sea salvager, and his expertise will not be wasted because of your past conflicts.
The following week Arv Hanson reported to Tom that the deep-sea aquarium was gradually taking shape.
When the docks are all deserted and the derricks all are still, And the wind across the anchorage comes singing sad and shrill, And the lighted lanthorns gleaming where the ships at anchor ride Cast their quivering long reflections down the ripple of the tide, Then the ships they start a-yarning, just the same as sailors do In a hundred docks and harbours from Port Talbot to Chefoo, Just the same as deep-sea sailormen a-meeting up and down In the bars and boarding-houses and the streets of Sailor-town.
No, the ships they all are yarning, just the same as sailors do, Just the same as deep-sea sailors from Port Talbot to Chefoo, Yarning through the hours of darkness till the daylight comes again, But oh!
Mahnmut grabbed a personal reaction pack and coils of unbreakable microfilament rope and pulled himself out the airlock doors, fighting the vector forces of the tumbling by grabbing handholds he knew from decades of deep-sea work.
Charlie Mollier, the geologist, had reported strange seismic readings, harmonic vibrations radiating through the deep-sea mountain range.
The damn things were cowards, even if they did look like some kind of deep-sea horror, and he and his new buddy Foxtrot Xray had scared them off.
Crown and Anchor, went through a noisy bar where Hokas sat puffing churchwardens and lying about their exploits with many deep-sea oaths, and proceeded up a narrow stair.
Lord Cochrane seemed to be expressing the views of all, for a murmur of assent, with a mutter of hearty, deep-sea curses, ran round the circle.