n. the outer boundary of an artifact or a material layer constituting or resembling such a boundary; "there is a special cleaner for these surfaces"; "the cloth had a pattern of red dots on a white surface"

n. a superficial aspect as opposed to the real nature of something; "it was not what it appeared to be on the surface"

n. the extended two-dimensional outer boundary of a three-dimensional object; "they skimmed over the surface of the water"; "a brush small enough to clean every dental surface"; "the sun has no distinct surface"

n. term used in CAD to refer to the external geometry of an object

n. a programming language that interfaces to a database engine

n. information that has become public; "all the reports were out in the open"; "the facts had been brought to the surface"

n. the outermost level of the land or sea; "earthquakes originate far below the surface"; "three quarters of the Earth's surface is covered by water"

n. the extent of a 2-dimensional surface enclosed within a boundary; "the area of a rectangle"; "it was about 500 square feet in area"

v. put a coat on; cover the surface of; furnish with a surface; "coat the cake with chocolate"

v. come to the surface

v. appear or become visible; make a showing; "She turned up at the funeral"; "I hope the list key is going to surface again"

adj. on the surface; "surface materials of the moon"

adj. involving a surface only; "her beauty is only skin-deep"; "superficial bruising"; "a surface wound"

n. an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets; "the flight was delayed due to trouble with the airplane"

n. a level of existence or development; "he lived on a worldly plane"

n. a natural object that covers or envelops; "under a covering of dust"; "the fox was flushed from its cover"

n. an artifact that covers something else (usually to protect or shelter or conceal it)

n. a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch; "your skin is the largest organ of your body"

n. a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch; "your skin is the largest organ of your body"

n. the region that is outside of something

n. a wide and open space or area as of surface or land or sky

n. the property possessed by a large mass

n. the property of something that is great in magnitude; "it is cheaper to buy it in bulk"; "he received a mass of correspondence"; "the volume of exports"

n. an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: "the range of a supersonic jet"; "the ambit of municipal legislation"; "within the compass of this article"; "within the scope of an investigation"; "outside the reach of the law"; "in the political orbit of a world power"

n. the property of relative size or extent (whether large or small); "they tried to predict the magnitude of the explosion"; "about the magnitude of a small pea"

n. how much there is of something that you can quantify

n. an adequate or large amount; "he had a quantity of ammunition"

n. greatness of magnitude

n. a wide scope; "the sweep of the plains"

n. the capacity for being stretched

n. a brief treatise on a subject of interest; published in the form of a booklet

n. the physical magnitude of something (how big it is); "a wolf is about the size of a large dog"

n. the property of something that is great in magnitude; "it is cheaper to buy it in bulk"; "he received a mass of correspondence"; "the volume of exports"

v. coat with lacquer; "A lacquered box from China"

v. decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold

v. make level or straight; "level the ground"

v. come into being; become reality; "Her dream really materialized"

adj. relating to physical reality rather than with thoughts or the mind; "a concern with outward beauty rather than with inward reflections"

v. get up from a sitting or slouching position; "The students straightened when the teacher entered"

v. move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody; "He came singing down the road"; "Come with me to the Casbah"; "come down here!"; "come out of the closet!"; "come into the room"

adj. appearing as such but not necessarily so; "for all his apparent wealth he had no money to pay the rent"; "the committee investigated some apparent discrepancies"; "the ostensible truth of their theories"; "his seeming honesty"

adj. appearing to be as specified; usually used as combining forms; "left their clothes dirty looking"; "a most disagreeable looking character"; "angry-looking"; "liquid-looking"; "severe-looking policemen on noble horses"; "fine-sounding phrases"; "taken in by high-sounding talk"

adj. showing frivolous or superficial interest; amateurish; "his dilettantish efforts at painting"

adj. arrived at without due care or effort; lacking depth; "too facile a solution for so complex a problem"

adj. lacking intellectual depth: "glib generalizations"; "shallow people"

adj. (British informal) summarized or abridged; "a potted version of a novel"

adj. almost no or (with `a') at least some; very little; "there's slight chance that it will work"; "there's a slight chance it will work"

n. the central part of the earth

adj. beneath the surface; "subsurface materials of the moon"

adj. located or originating from above; "an overhead crossing"