[ US /mɝˈin/ ]
[ UK /məɹˈiːn/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. native to or inhabiting the sea
    marine plants and animals such as seaweed and whales
  2. of or relating to military personnel who serve both on land and at sea (specifically the U.S. Marine Corps)
    marine barracks
  3. relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen
    nautical charts
    maritime law
    marine insurance
  4. relating to or characteristic of or occurring on or in the sea
  5. of or relating to the sea
    marine explorations
NOUN
  1. a soldier who serves both on shipboard and on land
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How To Use marine In A Sentence

  • The abrupt facies shift, bioturbation and cemented nature of the surfaces suggests that they represent marine flooding surfaces, formed during a rapid rise in relative sea level and/or a reduction in sediment supply.
  • In 100 days we saw two pods of dolphins, a pod of blue whales and a few marine birds. Times, Sunday Times
  • Looking through the casement was the visage of the mariner, no longer stern, but moved with unutterable emotion, and tears, yes, tears trickling down his weather-beaten cheeks. Edward Barnett; a Neglected Child of South Carolina, Who Rose to Be a Peer of Great Britain,—and the Stormy Life of His Grandfather, Captain Williams or, The Earle's Victims: with an Account of the Terrible End of the Proud Earl De Montford, the Lamen
  • Unless a guide is along for the ride, it's all too easy to overshoot the reef and find yourself in green water, 200 feet above the nearest marine life.
  • Instead of leaving, the fish crowded towards the back of the Redondo Beach marina and used all the oxygen in the water, marine experts have said. Millions of sardines die in Californian marina
  • This species is also closely associated with colonies of various seabirds and marine mammals; it feeds among birds and seals and has been considered a commensal of those colonial animals.
  • On the evening of 24 May 1941, British lieutenant commander Malcolm Wanklyn, in command of the submarine Upholder, sighted an enemy troop convoy strongly escorted by destroyers off Sicily.
  • I'm personally offended both by the error on the Times website and by your association of me with what you call the intentional slander of US marines. Rightwing Spin That Haditha Massacre Never Occurred
  • Liqueurs commonly made this way include triple sec, cassis, Cointreau, Grand Mariner and so forth.
  • He was coaxed into a reading and soon found himself studying with an acting coach, having his long hair cut to marine length for the part.
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