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depth
\ˈdepth\ noun
(plural depths \-ps also -pt(h)s\)
Etymology: Middle English, probably from dep deep + -th — more at deep
1.
a. : something that is deep : a deep place : a deep part of something; especially : the deepest part — often used in plural
< treasures in the depths of the ocean >
b. : a profound or intense or often the most profound or intense state (as of thought or feeling) — often used in plural
< in the depths of misery >
< the depths of reflection >
also : a reprehensibly low social, moral, or intellectual condition — often used in plural
< criticism … having fallen to such depths, it is hardly surprising that our standards of literature and the arts have fallen with it — Huntington Hartford >
c. : the inner especially midmost or more or less remote or unfathomable part — often used in plural
< the depths of the forest >
< disappeared in the depth of the crowd >
d. : the part marked by the greatest, the most intense, or the severest degree (as of cold) — often used in plural
< in the depths of winter >
< the depths of the night >
< in the lowest depths of servility and superstition — T.L.Peacock >
also : the worst part — often used in plural
< the depths of the slums >
< the depth of the depression >
2.
a. : the perpendicular measurement downward from a surface
< the depth of the river >
: the extent or measurement from the top downward
< the depth of a mine shaft >
b.
(1) of a square sail : the extent from the headrope to the footrope
(2) of a staysail or boom sail : the length of the after leech — compare drop I 2b(2) hoist II 3b
c. : the distance between upper and lower or between dorsal and ventral points of a body
d. : the direct linear measurement from the point of viewing, from the usual position of an observer, or toward the back from a position usually considered the front
< wishing he could measure the depth of the sky >
< the house lot was 200 ft. in depth >
< the depth of the crowd was considerable >
specifically : the space from front to rear occupied by a military formation or position including front and rear elements
e. : a great distance into something immeasurable conceived of as extending from the observer — often used in plural
< the depths of space >
3.
a. : the quality of being deep or of having considerable extension downward or inward
b. : the quality of being profound (as in insight) or full (as of knowledge) : acuteness, penetration
< a certain ripeness of wisdom, a certain pertinency and depth of meaning — P.E.More >
< says much for the depth of the impression he had received — Richard Garnett †1906 >
< Shakespeare gives the greatest width of human passion; Dante the greatest altitude and greatest depth — T.S.Eliot >
c. : the quality of being abstruse
< the great depth of such thought left the ordinary brain tired and confused >
d. : the quality of being intense or complete (as in moral quality or state of feeling)
< the depth of a man's unrighteousness >
< impossible to share another's depth of grief >
< no one knew the depth of his guilt >
e. : the quality of being low in pitch usually with fullness of tone
< the vitality and depth of the sound that reached the ear — Jack Gould >
f. : physical intensity
< a great depth of stillness in the woods >
specifically : the degree of departure from colorlessness that is characteristic of the concentration or efficiency of a bulky color produced by increasing from zero the thickness of its layers or from white of a surface color
4. archaic : the number of attributes that an abstract conception or notion includes : connotation
5. : the degree of engagement between a wheel and a pinion in a clock or watch
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- beyond one's depth
- in depth |