high sea
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4.6
- noun
- /haɪ si/
- Specialized
:
alta mar
- The sailors faced numerous challenges while navigating the treacherous waters of the high sea.
- high seas fishery
- freedom of the high sea
- high-sea fishing
It shall fall like a vessel on high seas, sinking to depths beyond light.
- It shall fall like a vessel on high seas, sinking to depths beyond light.
- I guess they just wanted to sail the high seas.
- Or you could sail the high seas.
- Iran just took a container ship and hijacked it right on the high seas, took it into just stole it.
- But when it came to the serious matter of navigating the globe in the high seas, the pretence would also have been dropped.
- Because I did, and it wasn't about having fun on the high seas.
- What what when did that start to become a strategy on the on the high seas, if you will?
- And I looked at that now for guidance and almost to navigate that darkness, the high seas.
Examples
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We have a 75-foot fishing vessel in distress, taking on water in high seas.
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The lives of people in distress on the high seas must be saved by ensuring their safe and timely disembarkation.
Academic text (2008) -
And our first morning on the high seas, we were on a British ship, ship.
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Then I would disappear into Mexico, or out on the high seas somewhere.
Fiction book (1999) -
The high seas weren't safe anymore.
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One view was that piracy could only take place on the high seas.
Academic text (2017) -
Unregulated fishing occurs on the high seas in international waters beyond the exclusive economic zone.
Academic text (2017) -
We're sailing on the high seas aboard a galleon, captained by the villainous Lord Pomfrey.
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For crimes committed on the high seas, by the authority granted me by His Majesty the King... ...and with a goodly amount of personal satisfaction... ...I hereby place you in the custody of the court, and declare you to be my prisoner.
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Many pirates historically roamed freely on the high sea, far from the control of any government.
Synonyms
17
3.4
Sea areas that no country controls and where any ship can sail
Antonyms
- Specialized
6
4.9
The area of sea near a country's coast that the country controls
How Offshore
Surface Forms
Morphology
The combination of 'high' (suggesting far or elevated) and 'sea' (the ocean) gives a partial clue that this refers to open or away-from-shore waters, so a learner can guess a general spatial sense. However, the specific legal/ jurisdictional meaning 'beyond territorial waters' is not directly derivable at B1 without prior exposure, even though many languages use a similar literal phrase, so the expression is only partly transparent.
Etymology
High sea comes from the picture of the high wide sea far from land, where ships sailed out of sight of any coast; that open water was seen as outside a single country's reach, so today high sea means the 'open sea' 'beyond a country's waters'.