Definition of Surface

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Surface

A small plane or surface, usually capable of adjustment but not of manipulation, for preserving lateral balance in an aeroplane or flying machine.

The exterior part of anything that has length and breadth; one of the limits that bound a solid, esp. the upper face; superficies; the outside; as, the surface of the earth; the surface of a diamond; the surface of the body.

Hence, outward or external appearance.

A magnitude that has length and breadth without thickness; superficies; as, a plane surface; a spherical surface.

That part of the side which is terminated by the flank prolonged, and the angle of the nearest bastion.

To give a surface to; especially, to cause to have a smooth or plain surface; to make smooth or plain.

To work over the surface or soil of, as ground, in hunting for gold.

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Surface Quotations

We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.
Mohandas Gandhi

If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it.
Andy Warhol

From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Vanity is but the surface.
Blaise Pascal

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
Carl Jung

People say I make strange choices, but they're not strange for me. My sickness is that I'm fascinated by human behavior, by what's underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.
Johnny Depp

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.
Albert Schweitzer

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Surface Translations

surface in Danish is overflade, top
surface in Dutch is oppervlakte, oppervlak
surface in French is superficie, surface
surface in Italian is superficie, superficie
surface in Latin is superficies
surface in Spanish is sobrefaz, superficie, plana
surface in Swedish is yta

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