Marine
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Marine is an adjective that means of, or pertaining to, the sea or ocean, such as marine biology, marine ecology and marine geology. In scientific contexts, marine almost always refers to seawater environments. In other contexts (e.g., engineering) it may refer to any navigable body of water.
Marine or marines may also refer to:
Military / seafarers
- Marines, a naval-based infantry force
- such as the United States Marine Corps
- In the French Armed Forces's Troupes de Marine, they are part of the French Army unlike the Navy's Marine Corps
- such as the 11th Marine Artillery Regiment
- Merchant marine, or merchant navy, the fleet of merchant vessels registered in a country
- A term for a navy, uncommon in English, but common in other languages
- Koninklijke Marine Royal Netherlands Navy the navy of the Dutch Armed Forces
- German Navy, the navy of the German Armed Forces (Bundeswehr)
Places
- Marine, Illinois, United States
- Marine, West Virginia
- Marine City, Michigan, United States
- Marine on St. Croix, Minnesota, United States
- Marines, Val-d'Oise, France
- Marines, Valencia, Spain
Arts, sport and entertainment
- Marine art, the depiction of the sea in art
- Marine (book), a book about the United States Marine Corps written by Tom Clancy in 1996
- The Marine, a film
- Marine F.C., an English football club from Merseyside
- Marines F.C., a Rwandan football club from Gisenyi
- Chiba Lotte Marines, a Japanese professional baseball team
- Space Marine, in science fiction, a soldier who serves aboard a spacecraft and/or who is trained to fight in space or in planetary attacks
- Marine, a Terran ground unit in the Starcraft series.
- Marine the Raccoon, an extra-dimensional character first appearing in Sonic Rush Adventure
- "The Marines", an episode of the Adult Swim animated television series, Aqua Teen Hunger Force
People
People named Marine
- Marine (given name)
- Marine Le Pen, a French politician
- Marine Petrossian, an Armenian poet, essayist and columnist.
- David Marine (1888–1976), an American pathologist who tested the use of iodide to prevent goiters in schoolgirls, which led to the iodization of salt
- Jean-Christophe Marine (born 1968), a Belgian molecular biologist
- Joseph E. Marine (1905–1998), New York state senator
People named Mariné
- Mariné Russo (born 1980), Olympic medal-winning hockey player from Argentina
- Eulalia Pérez de Guillén Mariné (1766?–1878), a prominent Californian
- Jordi Font Mariné (born 1955), an Andorran politician
- Oscar Mariné (born 1951), a Spanish illustrator, typographer, and artist
People named Marines
- Adriana Marines (1992-1997), a Mexican-American girl in Texas whose murder sparked a major outcry
Other uses
- Marine debris
- Marine habitats
- Marine pollution
- Marine engineering
- Marine propulsion
- All pages beginning with "Marine"
See also
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