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In figuratively terms the difference between sea and monster

is that sea is a large number or quantity; a vast amount while monster is a badly behaved child, a brat.

As nouns the difference between sea and monster

is that sea is a large body of salty water. (Major seas are known as oceans. while monster is a terrifying and dangerous, wild or fictional creature.

As an abbreviation SEA

is southeast Asia.

As an adjective monster is

very large; worthy of a monster.

As a verb monster is

to make into a monster; to categorise as a monster; to demonise.

sea

English

Noun

  • A large body of salty water. (Major seas are known as oceans.)
  • (label) A large number or quantity; a vast amount.
    • A sea of faces stared back at the singer.
    With no power for the electric lights, the house was a sea of darkness.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2013, date=April 9, author=Andrei Lankov, title=Stay Cool. Call North Korea’s Bluff., work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=In the last two decades, North Korea has on various occasions conducted highly provocative missile and nuclear tests and promised to turn Seoul into a sea of fire. }}
  • A heavy wave.
  • (label) A large, dark plain of rock; a mare.

    • Synonyms

    * the ogin (UK'', ''nautical and navy )

    Derived terms

    {{der3, deep sea , freedom of the seas , high seas , open sea , seabased , sea breeze , seachange, sea change , sea cow , sea dragon , seafood , seagull , seahorse , sea cucumber , sea grape , sea hare , sea hog , sea level , sea liver , sea louse , sea monster , sea otter , seaplane , sea pork , sea room , sea sawdust , seaside , sea slug , sea squirt , seastar , sea urchin , sea wolf}}

    See also

    * ocean * The Seven Seas

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    monster

    English

    Alternative forms

    * monstre (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A terrifying and dangerous, wild or fictional creature.
  • A bizarre or whimsical creature.
    • The children decided Grover was a cuddly monster .
  • An extremely cruel or antisocial person, especially a criminal.
    • Get away from those children, you meatheaded monster !
  • A horribly deformed person.
  • * 1837 , Medico-Chirurgical Review (page 465)
    • Deducting then these cases, we have a large proportion of imperfect foetuses, which belonged to twin conceptions, and in which, therefore, the circulation of the monster may have essentially depended on that of the sound child.
  • (figuratively) A badly behaved child, a brat.
    • Sit still, you little monster !
  • (informal) Something unusually large.
    • Have you seen those powerlifters on TV? They're monsters .
  • (informal) A prodigy; someone very talented in a specific domain.
    • That dude playing guitar is a monster .

    Derived terms

    * Cookie Monster * corporate monster * monstrosity * Frankenstein's monster * the Loch Ness monster * monster truck

    Related terms

    * monstrous * monstrously

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Very large; worthy of a monster.
    • He has a monster appetite.
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    • Synonyms

    * (very large) gigantic, monstrous

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make into a monster; to categorise as a monster; to demonise.
  • * 1983 , Michael Slater, Dickens and Women , page 290,
    • A Tale of Two Cities'' and ''Great Expectations feature four cases of women monstered by passion. Madame Defarge is ‘a tigress’, Mrs Joe a virago, Molly (Estella?s criminal mother) ‘a wild beast tamed’ and Miss Havisham a witch-like creature, a ghastly combination of waxwork and skeleton.
  • * 2005 , Diana Medlicott, The Unbearable Brutality of Being: Casual Cruelty in Prison and What This Tells Us About Who We Really Are'', Margaret Sönser Breen (editor), ''Minding Evil: Explorations of Human Iniquity , page 82,
    • The community forgives: this is in deep contrast to offenders that emerge from prison and remain stigmatised and monstered , often unable to get work or housing.
  • * 2011 , Stephen T. Asma, On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears , page 234,
    • Demonizing or monstering other groups has even become part of the cycle of American politics.
  • To behave as a monster to; to terrorise.
  • * 1968 , , Robert Lowell: A Collection of Critical Essays , page 145,
    • Animals in our world have been monstered' by human action as much as the free beasts of the pre-lapsarian state were ' monstered by the primal crime.
  • * 2009 , Darius Rejali, Torture and Democracy , page 292,
    • In 2002, American interrogators on the ground in Afghanistan developed a technique they called “monstering'.” The commander “instituted a new rule that a prisoner could be kept awake and in the booth for as long as an interrogator could last.” One “' monstering ” interrogator engaged in this for thirty hours.177
  • * 2010 , Joshua E. S. Phillips, None of Us Were Like This Before: American Soldiers and Torture , page 39,
    • The interrogators asked members of the 377th Military Police Company to help them with monstering , and the MPs complied.
  • (chiefly, Australia) To harass.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=January 31, author=Leo Schlink, title=Match looms as final for the ages, work=Herald Sun citation
    • , passage=Andy Roddick has been monstered by both Federer and Nadal and suffered a 6-2 7-5 7-5 semi-final loss at the hands of the Swiss champion. }}

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