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We found 43 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word surface:
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General dictionaries General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. surface: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
  2. surface: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  3. surface: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  4. surface: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
  5. Surface: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary [home, info]
  6. Surface: Wiktionary [home, info]
  7. surface: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  8. surface: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  9. surface: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  10. surface: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  11. surface: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  12. surface: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  13. surface: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  14. surface: Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms [home, info]
  15. Surface (Myst), Surface (TV Series), Surface (band), Surface (computer), Surface (computer aided design), Surface (disambiguation), Surface (geometry), Surface (magazine), Surface (physics), Surface: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  16. Surface: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  17. surface: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  18. surface: Rhymezone [home, info]
  19. surface, surface (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  20. surface: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  21. Surface: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook [home, info]
  22. Surface: 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
  23. surface: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  24. surface: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  25. surface: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  26. Surface, surface: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  27. surface: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
  28. surface: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info]

Art dictionaries Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. surface: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology [home, info]

Business dictionaries Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. surface: Travel Industry Dictionary [home, info]
  2. Surface: Construction Term Glossary [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Surface (geometry), Surface (physics), surface: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine dictionaries Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. surface: Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary [home, info]
  2. surface: online medical dictionary [home, info]
  3. Surface (geometry), Surface (physics), surface: Medical dictionary [home, info]

Miscellaneous dictionaries Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. surface: Idioms [home, info]

Science dictionaries Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Surface: Biological Sciences Dictionary [home, info]
  2. Surface: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics [home, info]
  3. surface: Nine Planets Glossary [home, info]
  4. surface: PlanetMath Encyclopedia [home, info]

Tech dictionaries Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Surface: AUTOMOTIVE TERMS [home, info]
  2. surface: Lighting Design Glossary [home, info]
  3. Surface: Dictionary for Avionics [home, info]

Quick definitions (surface)

noun:  the outer boundary of an artifact or a material layer constituting or resembling such a boundary ("There is a special cleaner for these surfaces")
noun:  a superficial aspect as opposed to the real nature of something ("It was not what it appeared to be on the surface")
noun:  the extended two-dimensional outer boundary of a three-dimensional object ("They skimmed over the surface of the water")
noun:  the outermost level of the land or sea ("Earthquakes originate far below the surface")
noun:  information that has become public ("The facts had been brought to the surface")
noun:  a device that provides reactive force when in motion relative to the surrounding air; can lift or control a plane in flight
verb:  come to the surface
verb:  put a coat on; cover the surface of; furnish with a surface
verb:  appear or become visible; make a showing ("I hope the list key is going to surface again")
adjective:  on the surface ("Surface materials of the moon")
name:  A surname (rare: 1 in 50000 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #7119)

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Phrases that include surface:   surface active, control surface, surface water, interfacial surface tension, road surface, more...

Words similar to surface:   coat, aerofoil, airfoil, open, rise, skin-deep, superficial, surfaced, surfacer, surfacing, come on, come out, come up, control surface, earth's surface, emerge, pave, rise up, show up, turn up, more...


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