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Definition of North Sea

1. Noun. An arm of the North Atlantic between the British Isles and Scandinavia; oil was discovered under the North Sea in 1970.

Definition of North Sea

1. Proper noun. An inlet of the Atlantic Ocean between Britain (in the west), Scandinavia (in the east) and Germany, Netherlands, Belgium and France (in the south). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of North Sea

Literary usage of North Sea

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. International Law: A Treatise by Lassa Oppenheim (1920)
"Such treaties have been concluded—first, with regard to the fisheries in the North Sea and the suppression of the liquor trade among the fishing vessels ..."

2. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"Sev- that surround the North Sea are deeply indented electric lines connect ... The North Sea is deepest on the Norwe- chig[ manufactures are steam pumps, ..."

3. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1896)
"Westerly and south-westerly winds tend to form a continuous strip of 35 per millo water along the whole of the central axis of the North Sea, ..."

4. The New Larned History for Ready Reference, Reading and Research: The Actual by Josephus Nelson Larned, Augustus Hunt Shearer (1922)
"The new [Amsterdam canal] is called the North Sea Canal, and has a length of 25 ... Remarkable as the North Sea Canal was at the time of its construction, ..."

5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Murray estimates the volume of the North Sea at 11200 cub. rti"" ... The North Sea is thus on the whole shallow; its bed is part of the continental shelf on ..."

6. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1889)
"We had set the log at twelve o'clock at noon, and were fairly astart upon our voyage across the North Sea. Directly we got outside the sands we experienced ..."

7. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh by Royal Society of Edinburgh (1900)
"It is not stated here that the deeper water of the North Sea close to the Scottish and English coasts determines the course of the southward tidal flow to ..."

8. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The North Sea lies between the January isotherms of 31° and 40°, ... In the southern, part of the North Sea, south of the Dogger Bank, where the sea is ..."

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