English Dictionary

surface

/ˈsɜːfɪs/

noun

The overside or up-side of a flat object such as a table, or of a liquid. / The outside hull of a tangible object. / (figuratively) Outward or external appearance.

The surface of the lake was calm and still.

意味（1）

The overside or up-side of a flat object such as a table, or of a liquid.

A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away,[…].

意味（2）

The outside hull of a tangible object.

Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything.

意味（3）

(figuratively) Outward or external appearance.

On the surface, the spy looked like a typical businessman.

意味（4）

(mathematics, geometry) The locus of an equation (especially one with exactly two degrees of freedom) in a more-than-two-dimensional space.