surface

Definition

  • noun: an outside part or layer of something
  • noun: the exterior or upper boundary of an object or body
  • verb: to rise to the surface of water
  • verb: to give a surface to
  • usually singular
  • synonyms: superficies, exterior, superficial

Examples

  • If you think she only did it for the money, you haven't even 'scratched the surface'. [=there are many other factors, reasons, etc., involved]

  • Despite the 'surface' differences between the two candidates, they are very similar in most ways.

  • The tension between them is beginning to 'rise to the surface'. [=it is becoming easy to see]

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) ..and that he saved me. ln every way that a person can be saved. l don't even have a picture of him. He exists now only in my memory. (Man) Keldysh, Keldysh, Mir on our way to the surface. (Brock) l was saving this for when l found the diamond. l'm sorry. Three years l've thought - (Applause) (..)
    1997 Titanic