Lake vs. Ocean

Lakenoun

A small stream of running water; a channel for water; a drain.

Lakenoun

A large, landlocked stretch of water.

Lakenoun

A large amount of liquid; as, a wine lake.

Lakenoun

(obsolete) A pit, or ditch

Lakenoun

(obsolete) An offering, sacrifice, gift.

Lakenoun

(dialectal) Play; sport; game; fun; glee.

Lakenoun

(obsolete) A kind of fine, white linen.

Lakenoun

In dyeing and painting, an often fugitive crimson or vermillion pigment derived from an organic colorant (cochineal or madder, for example) and an inorganic, generally metallic mordant.

Lakeverb

(obsolete) To present an offering.

Lakeverb

To leap, jump, exert oneself, play.

Lakeverb

To make lake-red.

Lakenoun

A pigment formed by combining some coloring matter, usually by precipitation, with a metallic oxide or earth, esp. with aluminium hydrate; as, madder lake; Florentine lake; yellow lake, etc.

Lakenoun

A kind of fine white linen, formerly in use.

Lakenoun

A large body of water contained in a depression of the earth's surface, and supplied from the drainage of a more or less extended area.

Lakeverb

To play; to sport.

Lakenoun

a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land

Lakenoun

a purplish red pigment prepared from lac or cochineal

Lakenoun

any of numerous bright translucent organic pigments

Lakenoun

a large area of water surrounded by land

Lakenoun

the Lake District.

Lakenoun

a pool of liquid

Lakenoun

a large surplus of a liquid commodity

Lakenoun

an insoluble pigment made by combining a soluble organic dye and an insoluble mordant.

Lakenoun

a purplish-red pigment made in the same way as lake, originally one obtained from lac.

Lake

A lake is an area filled with water, localized in a basin, surrounded by land, apart from any river or other outlet that serves to feed or drain the lake. Lakes lie on land and are not part of the ocean, although like the much larger oceans, they form part of Earth's water cycle.

Oceannoun

(countable) One of the large bodies of water separating the continents.

Oceannoun

(uncountable) Water belonging to an ocean.

Oceannoun

(figuratively) An immense expanse; any vast space or quantity without apparent limits.

Oceannoun

The whole body of salt water which covers more than three fifths of the surface of the globe; - called also the sea, or great sea.

Oceannoun

One of the large bodies of water into which the great ocean is regarded as divided, as the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic and Antarctic oceans.

Oceannoun

An immense expanse; any vast space or quantity without apparent limits; as, the boundless ocean of eternity; an ocean of affairs.

Oceanadjective

Of or pertaining to the main or great sea; as, the ocean waves; an ocean stream.

Oceannoun

a large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere

Oceannoun

anything apparently limitless in quantity or volume

Ocean

The ocean (also the sea or the world ocean) is the body of salt water which covers approximately 71% of the surface of the Earth and contains 97% of Earth's water. Another definition is .