PACIFIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pacific mean? 

• PACIFIC (noun)
  The noun PACIFIC has 1 sense:

1. the largest ocean in the world

  Familiarity information: PACIFIC used as a noun is very rare.

• PACIFIC (adjective)
  The adjective PACIFIC has 3 senses:

1. relating to or bordering the Pacific Ocean

2. disposed to peace or of a peaceful nature

3. promoting peace

  Familiarity information: PACIFIC used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PACIFIC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The largest ocean in the world

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Pacific; Pacific Ocean

Instance hypernyms:

ocean (a large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere)

Meronyms (parts of "Pacific"):

Pacific Coast (a coast of the Pacific Ocean)

Coral Sea (an arm of the South Pacific to the northeast of Australia)

East China Sea (part of the Pacific Ocean near eastern Asia)

Gulf of Alaska (a gulf of the Pacific Ocean between the Alaska Peninsula and the Alexander Archipelago)

Gulf of Tehuantepec (an arm of the Pacific in southern Mexico)

Inland Sea (an arm of the Pacific Ocean in southern Japan; surrounded by the islands of Honshu and Shikoku and Kyushu and linked to the Sea of Japan by a narrow channel; the chief port is Hiroshima)

North Pacific (that part of the Pacific Ocean to the north of the equator)

Osaka Bay (a bay of the western Pacific in southern Honshu)

Bering Sea (part of the North Pacific between Alaska and Siberia; connected to the Arctic Ocean by the Bering Strait)

Puget Sound (an inlet of the North Pacific in northwestern Washington State)

San Diego Bay (a bay of the Pacific in southern California)

San Francisco Bay (a bay of the Pacific in western California)

East Sea; Sea of Japan (an arm of the Pacific bordered by Japan, Korea, North Korea, and Russia)

Sea of Okhotsk (an arm of the Pacific to the east of Asia)

South China Sea (a tropical arm of the Pacific Ocean near southeastern Asia subject to frequent typhoons)

South Pacific (that part of the Pacific Ocean to the south of the equator)

Tasman Sea (an arm of the southern Pacific Ocean between southeastern Australia and New Zealand)

New Guinea (a Pacific island to the north of Australia; the 2nd largest island in the world; the western part is governed by Indonesia and the eastern part is Papua New Guinea)

Huang Hai; Yellow Sea (part of the Pacific off the east coast of Asia)

Guadalupe Island (a Mexican island in the Pacific to the west of Baja California)

Aleutian Islands; Aleutians (an archipelago in the North Pacific extending southwest from Alaska)

Oceania; Oceanica (a large group of islands in the south Pacific including Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia (and sometimes Australasia and the Malay Archipelago))

Australasia (Australia, New Zealand, and neighboring islands in the South Pacific)

Austronesia (islands of central and South Pacific (Indonesia and Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia))

Wake; Wake Island (an island in the western Pacific between Guam and Hawaii)

East India; East Indies; Malay Archipelago (a group of islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans between Asia and Australia)

Japan; Japanese Archipelago; Japanese Islands (a string of more than 3,000 islands to the east of Asia extending 1,300 miles between the Sea of Japan and the western Pacific Ocean)

Volcano Islands (a group of Japanese Islands in the northwestern Pacific Ocean to the north of the Marianas)

New Zealand; New Zealand Islands (North Island and South Island and adjacent small islands in the South Pacific)

Belau; Palau; Palau Islands; Pelew (a chain of more than 200 islands about 400 miles long in the western central Pacific Ocean)

Philippine Islands; Philippines (an archipelago in the southwestern Pacific including some 7000 islands)

Catalina Island; Santa Catalina (an island resort in the Pacific off the southwestern coast of California)

Antarctic Ocean (the southern waters surrounding Antarctica)

Arafura Sea (a part of the western Pacific Ocean to the north of Australia and to the south of New Guinea and the eastern islands of Indonesia)

Domain member region:

battle of the Philippine Sea; Philippine Sea (a naval battle in World War II (1944); a decisive naval victory for the United States fleet over the Japanese who were trying to block supplies from reaching American troops on Leyte)

invasion of Iwo; Iwo; Iwo Jima (a bloody and prolonged operation on the island of Iwo Jima in which American marines landed and defeated Japanese defenders (February and March 1945))

Derivation:

Pacific (relating to or bordering the Pacific Ocean)

• PACIFIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Relating to or bordering the Pacific Ocean

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

Pacific islands

Pertainym:

Pacific (the largest ocean in the world)

Derivation:

Pacific (the largest ocean in the world)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Disposed to peace or of a peaceful nature

Synonyms:

pacific; peaceable

Context example:

in a peaceable and orderly manner

Similar:

peaceable; peaceful (not disturbed by strife or turmoil or war)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Promoting peace

Context example:

the result of this pacific policy was that no troops were called up

Similar:

conciliative; conciliatory (intended to placate)

 Context examples 

A state in south western Mexico on the Pacific Ocean.

(Michoacan, NCI Thesaurus)

A pacific island state in the United States.

(Hawaii, NCI Thesaurus)

However, the present study shows for the first time that, due to the warming of the Indo-Pacific oceans, changes in MJO circulation are already happening.

(Global disasters linked to warming Indo-Pacific seas, SciDev.Net)

With smoke remaining in the Pacific, more particles could be expected to arrive in Brazil in the weeks ahead, depending on wind currents.

(Australian bushfire smoke drifts to South America, SciDev.Net)

He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

An herb native to islands in the South Pacific.

(Intoxicating pepper, NCI Dictionary)

A compound extracted from the Pacific yew tree Taxus brevifolia with antineoplastic activity.

(Paclitaxel, NCI Thesaurus)

A liposome-encapsulated formulation of paclitaxel, a taxoid compound extracted from the Pacific yew tree Taxus brevifolia, with antineoplastic property.

(Paclitaxel liposome, NCI Thesaurus)

The ceribate ester form of paclitaxel, a compound extracted from the Pacific yew tree Taxus brevifolia with antineoplastic activity.

(Paclitaxel Ceribate, NCI Thesaurus)

A state in south western Mexico bordering on the Pacific Ocean.

(Colima, NCI Thesaurus)