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surf
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surf: see wave wave, in oceanography , an oscillating movement up and down, of a body of water caused by the frictional drag of the wind, or on a larger scale, by submarine earthquakes, volcanoes, and landslides.
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, in oceanography; beach beach, a gently sloping zone where deposits of unconsolidated sediments are subject to wave action at the shore of an ocean or lake. Most of the sediment making up a beach is supplied by rivers or by the erosion of highlands adjacent to the coast.
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surf
1. waves breaking on the shore or on a reef
2. foam caused by the breaking of waves

surf [sərf]
(oceanography)
Wave activity in the area between the shoreline and the outermost limit of breakers, that is, in the surf zone.


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When I channel-surf on a Sunday afternoon with Moms and sister Stephanie, we are as likely to pause to hear what Farrakhan has to say, as Jesse Jackson or Mos Def.
When average viewers channel-surf, they're more likely to agree to waste a half-hour of their lives on an old sitcom they liked than fritter away an entire hour on a drama.
This assumes that people use the Net the way they channel-surf on a TV - an assumption that is pretty far off base, in our view.
 
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