surf

surf
    n 1: waves breaking on the shore [syn: {surf}, {breaker},
         {breakers}]
    v 1: ride the waves of the sea with a surfboard; "Californians
         love to surf" [syn: {surfboard}, {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}, {surf}]
    3: switch channels, on television [syn: {surf}, {channel-surf}]
    

Surf \Surf\, n. [Formerly spelled suffe, and probably the same
   word as E. sough.]
   The swell of the sea which breaks upon the shore, esp. upon a
   sloping beach.
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   {Surf bird} (Zool.), a ploverlike bird of the genus
      {Aphriza}, allied to the turnstone.

   {Surf clam} (Zool.), a large clam living on the open coast,
      especially {Mactra solidissima} (syn. {Spisula
      solidissima}). See {Mactra}.

   {Surf duck} (Zool.), any one of several species of sea ducks
      of the genus {Oidemia}, especially {Oidemia
      percpicillata}; -- called also {surf scoter}. See the Note
      under {Scoter}.

   {Surf fish} (Zool.), any one of numerous species of
      California embiotocoid fishes. See {Embiotocoid}.

   {Surf smelt}. (Zool.) See {Smelt}.

   {Surf whiting}. (Zool.) See under {Whiting}.
      [1913 Webster]
    

Surf \Surf\, n.
   The bottom of a drain. [Prov. Eng.]
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surf
 v.

   [from the `surf' idiom for rapidly flipping TV channels] To traverse
   the Internet in search of interesting stuff, used esp. if one is doing
   so with a World Wide Web browser. It is also common to speak of
   surfing in to a particular resource.

   Hackers adopted this term early, but many have stopped using it since
   it went completely mainstream around 1995. The passive, couch-potato
   connotations that go with TV channel surfing were never pleasant, and
   hearing non-hackers wax enthusiastic about "surfing the net" tends to
   make hackers feel a bit as though their home is being overrun by
   ignorami.
    

SURF
       System Utilization Reporting Facility
       
    

62 Moby Thesaurus words for "surf":
      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