Word Finder - depth

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The vertical distance below a surface; the degree to which something is deep

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Measure the depth of the water in this part of the bay.

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• deepness
• lowness

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The distance between the front and the back, as the depth of a drawer or closet

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The intensity, complexity, strength, seriousness or importance of an emotion, situation, etc.

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The depth of her misery was apparent to everyone.

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Lowness

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the depth of a sound

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(colors) the total palette of available colors

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The property of appearing three-dimensional

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The depth of field in this picture is amazing.

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(usually in the plural) the deepest part (usually of a body of water)

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The burning ship finally sunk into the depths.

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(usually in the plural) a very remote part.

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In the depths of the night,

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The most severe part

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in the depth of the crisis

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The number of simple elements which an abstract conception or notion includes; the comprehension or content

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A pair of toothed wheels which work together

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The perpendicular distance from the chord to the farthest point of an arched surface

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The lower of the two ranks of a value in an ordered set of values

He understood the depth of her fear.

It was difficult to describe the depth of her feelings.

Tears began to spill down her face as she understood the depth of Gabriel.s pain.

He wore light colors this day of tan, a shade that brought out the depth of honey in his skin.

The water is so transparent that the bottom can easily be discerned at the depth of twenty-five or thirty feet.

The mean depth is 189 ft., and the maximum 512 ft.

He wanted her, and nothing had ever made her happier in her life than when she saw the depth of his emotion in his eyes and lived through the consuming intensity with which he made love to her.

The dockyard, chiefly used for naval repairs, covers about 60 acres, and consists of three basins and large docks, the depth of water in the basins ranging down to 26 ft.

She felt her own tears spill over at the depth of his pain.

Once, when he had touched on this topic with his mother, he discovered, to his surprise and somewhat to his satisfaction, that in the depth of her soul she too had doubts about this marriage.

And from an unknown depth rose increasingly triumphant sounds.

He was largely immune to the world, but he had some depth of emotion, if he respected his mother's memory by not killing women.

There are two piers enclosing a harbour with a total area of 48 acres, having a depth of about 16 ft.

His brother had no idea the depth of emotion even a half-demon could feel.

It was only a slight brush, not enough to fully wake him from the depth of his stupor.

The first ledge rising from the ocean floor has depth averaging 8000 ft.

Every once in a while, the half-demon surprised him with the depth of his observations and compassion.

For the scientific construction of a green, the whole ground must be excavated to a depth of 18 in.

The basal plain of these terraces is the bed of the ocean, which on the Pacific side has an average depth of 15,000 ft.

There is a depth of 1 4 ft.

My spirit could not reach up to his, but he gave me a real sense of joy in life, and I never left him without carrying away a fine thought that grew in beauty and depth of meaning as I grew.

This is a remarkable depth for so small an area; yet not an inch of it can be spared by the imagination.

She still didn't understand the depth of her talents or how to control the visions, and being alone and away from her mate made some days unbearable.

He had no idea of the depth of the gorge or the length of the rope, but he prayed it was sufficient.

Perhaps the best natural harbour of the republic is that of Bahia Blanca, a large bay of good depth, sheltered by islands, and 534 m.

The mean depth over this ridge is about 250 fathoms, and the maximum depth nowhere reaches 500 fathoms. The main basin of the Atlantic is thus cut off from the Arctic basin, with which the area north of the ridge has complete deep-water communication.

The first passes northwards, most of it between the Faeroe and Shetland Islands, to the coast of Norway, and so on to the Arctic basin, which, as Nansen has shown, it fills to a great depth.

The second part of the circulation in the depth is the slow " creep " of water of very low temperature along the bottom.

The tidal wave of the Southern Ocean, which sweeps uninterruptedly round the globe from east to west, generates a secondary wave between Africa and South America, which travels north at a rate dependent only on the depth of the ocean.

The genius of the modern pianoforte is to produce richness by depth and variety of tone; and players who cannot find scope for such genius in the real part-writing of the 18th century will not get any nearer to the 18th-century spirit by sacrificing the essentials of its art to an attempt to imitate its mechanical resources by a modern tour de force.

The weight of the iron sheath varies greatly according to the depth of the water, the nature of the sea bottom, the prevalence of currents, and so on.

The ordinates of the curve give the strain in cwts., and the abscissae the distance in miles measured from the Canso end; as the strain is proportional to the depth, 18 cwts.

The grappling of the cable and raising it to the surface from a depth of 2000 fathoms seldom occupy less than twenty-four hours, and since any extra strain due to the pitching of the vessel must be avoided, it is clear that the state of the sea and weather is the predominating factor in the time necessary for effecting the long series of operations which, in the most favourable circumstances, are required for a repair.

As to cost, one transatlantic cable repair cost 75,000; the repair of the Aden-Bombay cable, broken in a depth of 1900 fathoms, was effected with the expenditure of 176 miles of new cable, and after a lapse of 251 days, 103 being spent in actual work, which for the remainder of the time was interrupted by the monsoon; a repair of the Lisbon-Porthcurnow cable, broken in the Bay of Biscay in 2700 fathoms, eleven years after the cable was laid, took 215 days, with an expenditure of 300 miles of cable.

Both Bell and Gray proposed to do this by introducing a column of liquid into the circuit, the length or the resistance of which could be varied by causing the vibrations of the diaphragm to vary the depth of immersion of a light rod fixed to it and dipping into the liquid.

About half-way between `Ana and Hit, in the neighbourhood of Haditha, the river has a breadth of 300 yds., with a depth of r8 ft., and a flood speed of 4 knots.

A new harbour was made in 1891-1896, having a depth of 264 ft., with a fore port l000 ft.

There are several lakes of great depth and streams well fitted for the purposes of irrigation, of which full advantage is taken by the natives.

Some of the sandbanks are dry; and no part of the shoal has a greater depth than 3 or 4 ft.

The complicated plot is constructed with greater skill than is usual with this dramatist, and the pathos of particular situations, and of the entire character of Penthea - a woman doomed to hopeless misery, but capable of seeking to obtain for her brother a happiness which his cruelty has condemned her to forego - has an intensity and a depth which are all Ford's own.

During the summer time it has water of sufficient depth for steamers of light draft as far as Nan-ch'ang, and it is navigable by native craft for a considerable distance beyond that city.

Although petroleum wells in Russia have not the depth of many of those in the United States, the disturbed character of the strata, with consequent liability to caving, and the occurrence of hard concretions, render drilling a lengthy and expensive Drilling in operation.

In all Heteronemertines there is on each side of the head a longitudinal slit of varying length but generally considerable depth, in the bottom of which the dark red brain is very plainly visible by transparency.

The maximum depth recorded by the United States Lake Survey is 870 ft.; the mean level of the surface is 5813 ft.

Its depth is 213 ft., and its height above sea-level 3z ft.; it has no natural outlet.

The improvement of the river, by the removal of snags and the construction of dams and locks in order to give it a navigable depth of to ft.

In his next work, Die Meistersinger, Wagner ingeniously made poetry and drama out of an explicit manifesto to musical critics, and proved the depth of his music by developing its everyday resources and so showing that its vitality does not depend on that extreme emotional force that makes Tristan and Isolde almost unbearably poignant.

It issues from the south-west corner of Lake Ladoga in two channels, which are obstructed by sandstone reefs, so that the better of the two has a depth of only 7 to 16 ft.

It extends inland at its greatest depth about 130 m.

Ten steps lead down to a basin of sufficient depth for immersion, supplied by a spring.