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5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Surf \Surf\, n. The bottom of a drain. [Prov. Eng.] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. {Surf bird} (Zo["o]l.), a ploverlike bird of the genus {Aphriza}, allied to the turnstone. {Surf clam} (Zo["o]l.), a large clam living on the open coast, especially {Mactra, or Spisula, solidissima}. See {Mactra}. {Surf duck} (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of sea ducks of the genus {Oidemia}, especially {O. percpicillata}; -- called also {surf scoter}. See the Note under {Scoter}. {Surf fish} (Zo["o]l.), any one of numerous species of California embiotocoid fishes. See {Embiotocoid}. {Surf smelt}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Smelt}. {Surf whiting}. (Zo["o]l.) See under {Whiting}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: surf n : waves breaking on the shore [syn: {breaker}, {breakers}] v 1: ride the surf with a surfboard [syn: {windsurf}] 2: switch channels, on television [syn: {channel-surf}] From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]: 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 From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms 13 March 2001 [vera]: SURF System Utilization Reporting Facility
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