Surface

Noun



 * 1) The up-side of a flat object such as a table.
 * 2) The outside hull of a tangible object.
 * 3)   The locus of an equation (especially one with exactly two degrees of freedom) in a more-than-two-dimensional space.

Synonyms

 * superfice

Verb

 * 1)  To provide something with a surface.
 * 2)  To apply a surface to something.
 * 3)  To rise to the surface.
 * 4)  To come out of hiding.
 * 5)  For information or facts to become known.
 * 6)  To work a mine near the surface.

Adjectives for Surface
silky; simmering; inferior; temporary; highway; brushed; rough; sparkling; shaggy; heaving; mirror-like; limiting; leaden; inelastic; refracting; troubled; raised; rugged; crawling; vibratory; undulating; reasonable; polished; sensitive; smooth; gleaming; faceted; rolling; agitated; glassy; intellectual; lumpy; metallic; unbroken; radiant; vitreous; sloping; broad; burnished; sprayed; convex; prismatic; sluggish; slotted; plaited; external; tourist; warmer; exposed; muddy; bright; stony; pliant; tenacious; general; plane; driving; suede-like.

Verbs for Surface
abrade—; becalm—; burnish—; corrugate —; dent—; detect upon—; dip below—; duck below—; engrave on—; explore—; face—; finish—; flash upon—; furrow—; glaze—; inflame—; level—; mar—; penetrate—; plunge beneath—; polish—; probe below—; ruffle—; rumple—; scan—; scour —; scratch—; skim—; smite—; smooth—; veneer—; venture upon—; warp—; weather —; wrinkle.

Thesaurus
3-D, acreage, ankle-deep, apparent, appear, appearing, area, arise, bail out, bob up, border, boundary, breadth, break cover, break forth, break water, burst forth, circumference, clerestory, come, come forth, come out, come up, concrete, continuum, conventionalized, cortex, cortical, cover, covering, crop up, crust, cubic, cursoriness, cursory, debouch, depthless, dimension, dimensional, disembogue, dive, effuse, emanate, emerge, emptiness, empty space, envelope, epidermal, epidermic, epidermis, erupt, exomorphic, expanse, expansion, extension, extent, exterior, exteriority, external, extrinsic, extrinsically, extrude, facade, face, facet, feel, field, finish, flat, float up, flood negative, flood the tanks, fly up, formal, formalist, formalistic, formulary, fountain, fourth-dimensional, fringe, front, galactic space, gloss, go below, grain, granular texture, gush, impersonal, indentation, infinite space, integument, interface, interstellar space, issue, issue forth, jejune, jet, jump out, jump up, knee-deep, knub, leap up, legalistic, light, lineaments, materialize, measure, mere scratch, nap, no depth, no water, nominal, not deep, nothingness, nub, on the surface, open, ostensible, ostensibly, out, outer, outer face, outer layer, outer side, outer skin, outer space, outermost, outline, outlying, outmost, outside, outstanding, outward, outward-facing, outwardly, pave, pedantic, peripheral, periphery, pile, pinprick, pit, plane, pock, pop up, proportion, proportional, protrude, protuberance, public, ridgepole, rig for diving, rind, rise, rocket, roof, roofpole, rooftop, roundabout, sally, sally forth, scratch, seeming, shag, shallow, shallow-rooted, shallowness, shell, shoal, shoaliness, shoot up, show up, side, skin, skin-deep, skyrocket, slight, slightness, space, space-time, spatial, spatial extension, spatiotemporal, sphere, spherical, spread, spring up, spurt, start up, stereoscopic, structure, stylized, submerge, superficial, superficial extension, superficiality, superficially, superficies, superstratum, surface texture, tarmac, texture, thin, three-dimensional, to all appearances, top, top floor, top side, topside, topsides, tract, trivial, triviality, two-dimensional, unprofound, upleap, upper side, upshoot, upside, upspear, upspring, upstart, vault up, veneer, visible, void, volume, volumetric, wale, weave, woof

Etymology
From surface.

Noun

 * Afrikaans: oppervlak
 * Arabic:
 * Catalan: superfície
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: overflade
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: surfaco
 * Finnish: pinta (1,2)
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido: surfaco
 * Indonesian: permukaan
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido: surfaco
 * Indonesian: permukaan
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:


 * Korean: 표면 (pyomyoen)
 * Malayalam: ഉപരിതലം (uparithalam)
 * Norwegian: overflate
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: поверхность (povérχnost’)
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: ఉపరితలం (uparitalam)
 * Thai: พื้นผิว
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese: mặt
 * Welsh: arwyneb
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese: mặt
 * Welsh: arwyneb

Derived terms

 * surficial

Verb

 * Finnish: nousta pintaan, nousta pinnalle
 * French: faire surface
 * Irish:
 * Russian: всплывать (vsplyvát’)


 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ,
 * Roman: ,


 * French: faire surface


 * Russian: всплывать (vsplyvát’), выясняться (vyjasnját’sja)

Noun

 * 1) surface