surf : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: surf	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for surf
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
surf n waves breaking on the shore [syn: surf, breaker, breakers] v ride the waves of the sea with a surfboard; "Californians love to surf" Synonym(s): surfboard, surf look around casually and randomly, without seeking anything in particular; "browse a computer directory"; "surf the internet or the world wide web" Synonym(s): browse, surf switch channels, on television Synonym(s): surf, channel-surf
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[94]l.), a ploverlike bird of the genus {Aphriza}, allied to the turnstone. {Surf clam} (Zo[94]l.), a large clam living on the open coast, especially {Mactra, [or] Spisula, solidissima}. See {Mactra}. {Surf duck} (Zo[94]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[94]l.), any one of numerous species of California embiotocoid fishes. See {Embiotocoid}. {Surf smelt}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Smelt}. {Surf whiting}. (Zo[94]l.) See under {Whiting}.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 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.