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AT SEA
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment
Example:
she felt lost on the first day of school
Synonyms:
at sea; baffled; befuddled; bemused; bewildered; confounded; confused; lost; mazed; mixed-up
Classified under:
Similar:
perplexed (full of difficulty or confusion or bewilderment)
Context examples:
The Spitzer observations rule out an atmosphere with more than 10 times the pressure of Earth's. (Measured in units called bars, Earth's atmospheric pressure at sea level is about 1 bar.)
(A Rare Look at a Rocky Exoplanet's Surface, NASA)
At 29,035 feet (8,848 m) in altitude, the air is only one-third as thick as the air at sea level.
(Everest, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Oxygen that is given at a pressure that is higher than the pressure of the atmosphere at sea level.
(Hyperbaric oxygen, NCI Dictionary)
The transport ship Gloria Scott was set down by the Admiralty as being lost at sea, and no word has ever leaked out as to her true fate.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“That's wind, sir. There'll be mischief done at sea, I expect, before long.”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
She had died the preceding summer while he was at sea.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
"No sooner do we get out of one trouble than down comes another. There doesn't seem to be anything to hold on to when Mother's gone, so I'm all at sea."
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Inertial force produced by accelerations or gravity, expressed in gravitational units; one G is equal to the pull of gravity at the earth's surface at sea level and 45 degrees North latitude (32.1725 ft/sec2; 980.621 cm/sec2).
(G Force, NCI Thesaurus)
Mrs. Thorpe, however, had one great advantage as a talker, over Mrs. Allen, in a family of children; and when she expatiated on the talents of her sons, and the beauty of her daughters, when she related their different situations and views—that John was at Oxford, Edward at Merchant Taylors', and William at sea—and all of them more beloved and respected in their different station than any other three beings ever were, Mrs. Allen had no similar information to give, no similar triumphs to press on the unwilling and unbelieving ear of her friend, and was forced to sit and appear to listen to all these maternal effusions, consoling herself, however, with the discovery, which her keen eye soon made, that the lace on Mrs. Thorpe's pelisse was not half so handsome as that on her own.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
As it dove through the gap, Cassini came within about 1,900 miles (3,000 kilometers) of Saturn's cloud tops (where the air pressure is 1 bar — comparable to the atmospheric pressure of Earth at sea level) and within about 200 miles (300 kilometers) of the innermost visible edge of the rings.
(Cassini Spacecraft Dives Between Saturn and Its Rings, NASA)
