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Ocean of Words is a short story collection by Ha Jin. It is his first published book. The stories are set along the China-Soviet border in the 1970s after the nations split political ties. The collection won the 1997 PEN/Hemingway Award for best first work of fiction.
1. That part of the ocean lying more than a few hundred nautical mile s from shore, and thus beyond the outer boundary of green water. 2. More generally, the open ocean or deep sea. blue-water navy 1. A navy capable of sustained operations in the open ocean, beyond a few hundred nautical miles from shore. 2.
Water god in an ancient Roman mosaic. Zeugma Mosaic Museum, Gaziantep, Turkey. A water deity is a deity in mythology associated with water or various bodies of water.Water deities are common in mythology and were usually more important among civilizations in which the sea or ocean, or a great river was more important.
The word ocean comes from the figure in classical antiquity, Oceanus (/ oʊ ˈ s iː ə n ə s /; Ancient Greek: Ὠκεανός Ōkeanós, [29] pronounced [ɔːkeanós]), the elder of the Titans in classical Greek mythology. Oceanus was believed by the ancient Greeks and Romans to be the divine personification of an enormous river encircling ...
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According to Lunine, "oceans" have been defined as "stable, globe-girdling bodies of liquid water." [13] In addition, "Ocean worlds is the label given to objects in the solar system that host stable, globe-girdling bodies of liquid water," in contrast to the terms "'ocean planet' and 'water world', both of which refer to exoplanets (planets orbiting other stars) with substantial mass fractions ...
1. Living in the open ocean rather than coastal or inland waters (e.g. a pelagic shark). 2. Taking place in the open ocean (e.g. pelagic fishing, pelagic sealing). pelican hook. Also called a slip-hook or Davey hook. A hook with a hinge in the curve of the hook, normally held closed by a metal ring that keeps the two hinged parts together.
Tehom (Hebrew: תְּהוֹם təhôm) is a Northwest Semitic and Biblical Hebrew word meaning "the deep” or “abyss” (literally “the deeps”). [1] It is used to describe the primeval ocean and the post-creation waters of the earth. It is a cognate of the Akkadian words tiāmtum and tâmtum as well as Ugaritic t-h-m which have similar ...