surface

1. surface (noun) — sense 1

Definition: The external boundary of an object or body.

2. surface (noun) — sense 2

Definition: The overside or upside of a flat object such as a table, or of a liquid.

Example: 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,[…].

3. surface (noun) — sense 3

Definition: The outside hull of a tangible object.

Example: 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.

4. surface (verb) — sense 4

Definition: To provide with a surface; to apply a surface to.

Example: The crew surfaced the road with bitumen.

5. surface (verb) — sense 5

Definition: To rise to the surface.

Example: There was great relief when the missing diver finally surfaced.

6. surface (verb) — sense 6

Definition: To bring to the surface.

Example: Sage went immediately to work; Damien surfaced the submarine and readied the group to meet outside the hatch.