1. (Figuré) Apparaître.
2. (Figuré) (Familier) Se réveiller.
La nuit a été agitée [?]. Suivant une expression empruntée au vocabulaire de la marine moderne ? les sous-marins ? les affligés du mal de mer « ont fait surface ». (Jean-Baptiste Charcot, Dans la mer du Groenland, 1928)
3. (Figuré) Revenir à niveau dans les délais d'une tâche.
4. (Marine) Remonter à la surface de l'eau.
5. (Maçonnerie) Niveau supérieur d'un ouvrage de maçonnerie servant de base pour la suite de la construction.
6. [noun] The overside or up-side of a flat object such as a table, or of a liquid.
7. [noun] The outside hull of a tangible object.
8. [noun] (figurative) Outward or external appearance.
9. [noun] (mathematics) (geometry) The locus of an equation (especially one with exactly two degrees of freedom) in a more-than-two-dimensional space.
10. [noun] (fortification) That part of the side which is terminated by the flank prolonged, and the angle of the nearest bastion.
11. [verb] (transitive) To provide something with a surface.
12. [verb] (transitive) To apply a surface to something.
13. [verb] (intransitive) To rise to the surface.
14. [verb] (intransitive) To come out of hiding.
15. [verb] (intransitive) For information or facts to become known.
16. [verb] (intransitive) To work a mine near the surface.
17. [verb] (intransitive) To appear or be found.
18. [noun] The outer boundary of an artifact or a material layer constituting or resembling such a boundary; 'there is a special cleaner for these surfaces'; 'the cloth had a pattern of red dots on a white surface'.
19. [noun] The extended two-dimensional outer boundary of a three-dimensional object; 'they skimmed over the surface of the water'; 'a brush small enough to clean every dental surface'; 'the sun has no distinct surface'.
20. [noun] The outermost level of the land or sea; 'earthquakes originate far below the surface'; 'three quarters of the Earth's surface is covered by water'.
21. [noun] A superficial aspect as opposed to the real nature of something; 'it was not what it appeared to be on the surface'.
22. [noun] Information that has become public; 'all the reports were out in the open'; 'the facts had been brought to the surface'.
23. [noun] A device that provides reactive force when in motion relative to the surrounding air; can lift or control a plane in flight.
24. [verb] Come to the surface.
25. [verb] Put a coat on; cover the surface of; furnish with a surface; 'coat the cake with chocolate'.
26. [verb] Appear or become visible; make a showing; 'She turned up at the funeral'; 'I hope the list key is going to surface again'.
27. [adjective] On the surface; 'surface materials of the moon'.
