Depth
[depθ] or [dɛpθ]
Definition
(noun.) degree of psychological or intellectual profundity.
(noun.) the attribute or quality of being deep, strong, or intense; 'the depth of his breathing'; 'the depth of his sighs,' 'the depth of his emotion'.
(noun.) the extent downward or backward or inward; 'the depth of the water'; 'depth of a shelf'; 'depth of a closet'.
(noun.) (usually plural) the deepest and most remote part; 'from the depths of darkest Africa'; 'signals received from the depths of space'.
(noun.) (usually plural) a low moral state; 'he had sunk to the depths of addiction'.
Typed by Hester--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The quality of being deep; deepness; perpendicular measurement downward from the surface, or horizontal measurement backward from the front; as, the depth of a river; the depth of a body of troops.
(n.) Profoundness; extent or degree of intensity; abundance; completeness; as, depth of knowledge, or color.
(n.) Lowness; as, depth of sound.
(n.) That which is deep; a deep, or the deepest, part or place; the deep; the middle part; as, the depth of night, or of winter.
(n.) The number of simple elements which an abstract conception or notion includes; the comprehension or content.
(n.) A pair of toothed wheels which work together.
Typist: Sharif
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Deepness, profundity.[2]. Extent, measure.[3]. Middle, central part.[4]. Discernment, sagacity, shrewdness, penetration, astuteness, perspicacity, profoundness.
Checker: Patrice
Definition
n. deepness: the measure of deepness down or inwards: a deep place: the sea: the middle as depth of winter: abstruseness: extent of sagacity and penetration.—adj. Depth′less having no depth.—Out of one's depth in water where one cannot touch bottom: in water too deep for one's safety: beyond one's faculties.—The depths the lowest pitch of humiliation and misery.
Checked by Claudia
Examples
- Animal and vegetable matter buried in the depth of the earth sometimes undergoes natural distillation, and as a result gas is formed. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The horses' hoofs have bored holes in these rocks to the depth of six inches during the hundreds and hundreds of years that the castle was garrisoned. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- They reveal a depth and range of meaning in experiences which otherwise might be mediocre and trivial. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The length of time in boiling depends upon the depth of color desired. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- It is not sufficient that the bottom be strong; the sides likewise must support their strain, and hence must be increased in strength with depth. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Although we were anxious to leave England before the depth of winter, yet we were detained. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- First, the water might be run off by a descending pipe, if an offlet could be got at the depth of thirty-five or thirty-six feet, and any air might be extracted by a small pump. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- I really think I saw tears rise to his eyes, from the depth of his own feeling of all this. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- During the experiment in Long Island Sound the pump was stopped for ten minutes, while the diver was at a depth of 100 feet. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The length of the Great Eastern was 692 feet, beam 83 feet, depth 57? feet, draft 25? feet, displacement 27,000 tons, and speed 12 knots. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- A river's its natural depth, and he's his natural depth. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- We also knew the width, length, and approximate depth of every one of these deposits, which were enormous. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The cut is nine miles long, 300 feet wide, 272 feet greatest depth and required the excavation of 100,000,000 cubic yards of material. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- One light glimmered in the depth. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The hull was 133 feet long, 18 feet beam, and 7 feet depth. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- If the central depths were untouched, hardly a pin-point of surface remained the same. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- It is necessary that this drawing be made in four operations; the first and second are particularly interesting, on account of their depths, which are 5-1/2 and 9-3/16 inches, respectively. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Half a dozen able-bodied men were standing in a line from the well-mouth, holding a rope which passed over the well-roller into the depths below. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- His honest eyes fire up, and sparkle, as if their depths were stirred by something bright. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- He sowed different seeds from the same machine, and arranged that they might be covered at different depths. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The lightning is made his swift messenger, and thought flashes in submarine depths around the world. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The thought of Laura welled up like a spring in the depths of my heart, and filled it with waters of bitterness, never, never known to it before. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- She realized the spell that had been upon her in the depths of that far-off jungle, but there was no spell of enchantment now in prosaic Wisconsin. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Whenever Mr. Snagsby and his conductors are stationary, the crowd flows round, and from its squalid depths obsequious advice heaves up to Mr. Bucket. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The azure of the sky penetrates the depths of the lake, and the waters are sweet and cool. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The low, bad, unimpressible face is coming up from the depths of the river, or what other depths, to the surface again. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Before I could overtake him he had sprung to the rail and hurled himself headforemost into the awful depths below. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- A device for continuously indicating on a galvanometer the depths of the ocean. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Don't use such dreadful expressions, replied Meg from the depths of the veil in which she had shrouded herself like a nun sick of the world. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- And then she was dragged out of my sight into the depths of the deserted edifice. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
Typist: Morton