Dictionary Definition
Verb
1 ride the waves of the sea with a surfboard;
"Californians love to surf"
2 look around casually and randomly, without
seeking anything in particular; "browse a computer directory";
"surf the internet or the world wide web" [syn: browse]
3 switch channels, on television [syn: channel-surf]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɜː(r)f
Homophones
Etymology
Maybe suffe, of uncertain origin.Noun
- Waves that break on an
ocean shoreline.
- 1883: Robert
Louis Stevenson, Treasure
Island
- ...perhaps it was the look of the island, with its gray, melancholy woods, and wild stone spires, and the surf that we could both see and hear foaming and thundering on the steep beach...
- 1883: Robert
Louis Stevenson, Treasure
Island
Derived terms
- surf line
- surf rider noun
Translations
waves that break
- German: Brandung
Translations
to ride a wave
- German: wellenreiten
- Italian: surfare
to browse the Internet
- Dutch: surfen
- German: surfen
- Italian: navigare
Derived terms
- surfer noun
Derived terms
- surfboard noun
Anagrams
Extensive Definition
Surf may refer to:
- An ocean surface wave as it breaks in shallow water or upon the shore.
- Surfing, a surfboard-based water-sport
- Surf culture, the culture surrounding the sport of surfing
- Surf music
- Surf (detergent)
- Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)
- Atlantic City Surf Professional Baseball Club
- Jersey Surf Drum and Bugle Corps.
- "Surfing the Web", i.e. exploring the World Wide Web
- SURF "Speeded Up Robust Features", a computer vision algorithm
See also
surf in French: Surf (homonymie)
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
billow,
bore, breakers, chop, choppiness, chopping sea,
collar, comb, comber, dirty water, eagre, foam, froth, gravity wave, ground swell,
head, heave, heavy sea, heavy swell,
lather, lift, lop, meringue, mousse, offscum, peak, popple, puff, riffle, ripple, rise, roll, roller, rough water, scend, scud, scum, sea, sea foam, send, soapsuds, souffle, spindrift, spoondrift, spray, spume, stinging, suds, surge, swell, tidal bore, tidal wave,
tide wave, trough,
tsunami, undulation, water wave,
wave, wavelet, white horses, white
water, whitecaps