MARINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Marine mean? 

• MARINE (noun)
  The noun MARINE has 2 senses:

1. a member of the United States Marine Corps

2. a soldier who serves both on shipboard and on land

  Familiarity information: MARINE used as a noun is rare.

• MARINE (adjective)
  The adjective MARINE has 5 senses:

1. of or relating to the sea

2. relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen

3. of or relating to military personnel who serve both on land and at sea (specifically the U.S. Marine Corps)

4. relating to or characteristic of or occurring on or in the sea

5. native to or inhabiting the sea

  Familiarity information: MARINE used as an adjective is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MARINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of the United States Marine Corps

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

devil dog; leatherneck; Marine; shipboard soldier

Hypernyms ("Marine" is a kind of...):

man; military man; military personnel; serviceman (someone who serves in the armed forces; a member of a military force)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Holonyms ("Marine" is a member of...):

Marine Corps; Marines; United States Marine Corps; United States Marines; US Marine Corps; USMC (an amphibious division of the United States Navy)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A soldier who serves both on shipboard and on land

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("marine" is a kind of...):

soldier (an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army)

• MARINE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to the sea

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

marine explorations

Pertainym:

sea (a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

marine; maritime; nautical

Context example:

marine insurance

Pertainym:

navigation (ship traffic)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Of or relating to military personnel who serve both on land and at sea (specifically the U.S. Marine Corps)

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

marine barracks

Domain region:

America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)

Pertainym:

Marine Corps (an amphibious division of the United States Navy)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on or in the sea

Similar:

deep-sea (of or taking place in the deeper parts of the sea)

oceangoing; seafaring; seagoing (used on the high seas)

oceanic (constituting or living in the open sea)

offshore (at some distance from the shore)

oversea; overseas (being or passing over or across the sea)

subocean; suboceanic (formed or situated or occurring beneath the ocean or the ocean bed)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Native to or inhabiting the sea

Context example:

marine plants and animals such as seaweed and whales

Similar:

aquatic (operating or living or growing in water)

 Context examples 

C. oceanicum is considered non-pathogenic and has been isolated from marine sediments.

(Clostridium oceanicum, NCI Thesaurus)

Dolastatin 10 comes from a marine organism.

(Dolastatin 10, NCI Dictionary)

A broad-spectrum, third-generation cephalosporin antibiotic derived semisynthetically from the marine fungus Cephalosporium acremonium with antibacterial activity.

(Cefixime, NCI Thesaurus)

Bryostatin 1 comes from a marine organism.

(Bryostatin 1, NCI Dictionary)

Some 250 million years ago, simultaneous mass extinctions of marine and terrestrial life occurred in an event known as the End-Permian.

(Mass extinction of land and sea biodiversity 250 million years ago not simultaneous, National Science Foundation)

It is obtained from a marine organism.

(Aplidine, NCI Dictionary)

PM02734 is a derivative of a natural marine compound extracted from the sacoglossan sea slug, Elysia rufescens.

(Elisidepsin, NCI Thesaurus)

An analogue of halichondrin B, a substance derived from a marine sponge (Lissodendoryx sp.) with antineoplastic activity.

(Eribulin, NCI Thesaurus)

A taxonomic family of marine bacterium in the phylum Actinobacteria that includes the genera Knoellia, Ornithinimicrobium and Janibacter, among others.

(Intrasporangiaceae, NCI Thesaurus)

A substance taken from a marine organism that may be linked to a specific antigen to boost the immune response to that antigen.

(Keyhole limpet hemocyanin, NCI Dictionary)