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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
depth
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a depth gauge
▪ A depth gauge is essential for telling you how deep you are when diving.
be in the depths of recession (=be at its worst level)
▪ The country is in the depths of recession.
depth charge
depths of...soul
▪ It was as if those grey eyes could see into the very depths of her soul.
in the depths of winter (=in the middle of the winter)
▪ Even in the depths of winter, the harbour is never completely frozen.
the depth of an emotion (=how strong an emotion is)
▪ She was surprised by the depth of her emotions.
the depths of despair (=very strong feelings of despair)
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
great
▪ Further along is Jingle Pot, another large crater of no great depth.
▪ At greater depths, researchers have found other bootstraps.
▪ It can be sold mild when young, or matured to a greater depth of flavour.
▪ It always amazes me that animals reach the surface alive from great depths.
▪ I don't claim any great originality or depth, but it is the best I can do at the moment.
▪ Throw it all together, along with a few indigenous ingredients, and you have an unparalleled culinary repertoire of great depth.
▪ Chablis Premier Cru, Côte de Lechet 1990, £9.95 - full, rich, white, great depth of flavour.
▪ It is the second point which we should reexamine now in greater depth.
maximum
▪ Once in the water the diving followed a tortuous corkscrewing route reaching a maximum depth of 34.5 metres.
▪ The dive log screen displays maximum depth, dive time and surface interval for the last ten dives.
▪ A bar graph shows present depth and maximum depth reached.
▪ Error 1402 Maximum package depth exceeded - repeat listing at a lower level package.
▪ It displays maximum depth and elapsed dive time.
▪ Luckily, the reactor was turned back on before the submarine imploded from the pressure of being beyond its maximum design depth.
▪ Some fixed lens cameras have a maximum and minimum focus, and might restrict the maximum depth you can dive to.
shallow
▪ In Britain, in particular, there can be few areas where water is not available at a shallow depth.
▪ Camera-shake and shallow depth of field can cause problems.
▪ Heating probably begins at quite shallow depths but because the downgoing plate is cold virtually all of this heat is initially absorbed.
▪ Nuclear waste is disposed of at much shallower depths.
▪ You must wait at that depth, within 0.5 metres, until a shallower depth or a new no-stop time is indicated.
▪ Only small quantities of oil are transported through the actual canal because the shallow water depth bars the passage of large tankers.
▪ But it was the remorse of youth - intense, yet so shallow its depth is plumbed at a glance.
▪ Programmable shallow depth alarm and adjustable keel depth.
■ NOUN
charge
▪ Alternatively mines or depth charges could be loaded.
▪ A short while later, patrol boats, equipped with depth charges, approached from the flanks.
▪ Anyway, Taureg survived thirty-eight depth charges so she deserves a bit of a cheer.
▪ This would leave nuclear-armed bombers, cruise missiles and depth charges.
▪ Even more elusive have been facts about retrieving nuclear depth charges from lost helicopters.
▪ The depth charge was set for 105.
ocean
▪ Life in the ocean depths poses many special problems, requiring special adaptations.
▪ Man is a wellspring; woman an ocean depth.
▪ Monsters, stirred from the lightless ocean depths by the sinking of the lands, sometimes come ashore here in search of prey.
■ VERB
add
▪ Ask your hairdresser about tinted lights, which add warmth and depth.
▪ In a saute pan, add water to a depth of l / 4 inch.
▪ Right: Add depth and elegance to plain painted walls with a Fablon peel and stick border.
▪ I added a few small hydrangea florets to perfect the shape and add some depth to the range of colours used.
▪ What really adds depth to this documentary, though, is its status as a poignant historical document.
discuss
▪ The half-day course on the Census introduces the problems but does not attempt to discuss them in depth.
▪ As we will discuss later in more depth, bonds are IOUs that pay a specific rate of inter-est.
▪ It is discussed in depth further on in this section and should be studied.
▪ Both these aspects will be discussed later in some depth.
▪ These two points of view seem important enough to discuss in much greater depth.
▪ I shall discuss circulation at greater depths in section 9.3.3.
▪ This question will therefore be discussed in some depth in Chapter 3.
▪ One aspect of this type of criminality, business or corporate crime, will be discussed in some depth in Chapter 3.
explore
▪ I've started to look at this and want to explore it in greater depth.
▪ A rental car is the best bet for exploring Meteora in depth.
▪ As we discuss shortly, this particular problem has also been explored in depth by feminist writing.
▪ Each core has a particular set of topics for consideration each year, and students find ways to explore these in depth.
▪ Two case studies were explored in depth.
▪ The underlying reasons for these differences are explored in depth in chapters 7 and 8.
▪ Claman sets out to explore in depth fundamental questions, but readers expecting such will be left unfulfilled and let down.
give
▪ Lines parallel to the horizon give breadth, that is to say a section of nature ... Lines perpendicular to this horizon give depth.
▪ A touch of Cognac gives it depth and a hint of sweetness.
▪ This purported to give viewers colour and depth from a drunken double image viewed through red and blue specs.
▪ What we tried to do was to give it some depth and dimension.
▪ The band have a live intensity that's missing on their recordings and gave added depth to Let Me Down.
▪ He wanders in and out of these afternoons, the bright hot skies that give tone and depth to narrow data.
▪ John Gregory's close-season signings have given his squad greater depth and the attack has more scoring potential.
▪ This gave greater depth to most of the patterns, but often made the dancers appear earthbound.
hide
▪ She believed George Harrison had hidden depths.
▪ There are no hidden depths or subtle shades here.
▪ There he might hope to hide in the depths, to escape our attentions.
increase
▪ Cool colors recede, increasing the sense of depth.
▪ The ability to collapse their lung air-sacs with increasing depth is probably the dolphin's major protection against the bends.
▪ When people exercise, it tends to increase the depth of their sleep.
▪ And the actual practice of benchmarking is increasing both in depth and extent.
▪ The melting point increases with depth in the Earth because of the increasing pressure.
plumb
▪ How could they soar so high one minute, then plumb the depths?
▪ It was Amy who correctly assessed her brother, although not even she plumbed the depths of his duplicity.
▪ Perhaps he plumbed a depth beyond human sensitivity.
▪ We certainly need to continue our investigations; to advance ideas; to plumb the mysterious depths of the human psyche.
reveal
▪ Careful plumbing will reveal depth and type of bottom.
▪ Over the years his admirable private-eye hero, Spenser, has revealed intriguing depths of sensitivity and literary appreciation.
▪ He opened his recruitment consultancy in January 1991, just as the recession was revealing the depths to which it could sink.
▪ He talks about them non-stop, rapid-fire, revealing a depth of knowledge that contradicts the simplicity of the subject.
▪ November 3: A picture of the couple reveals the depth of the rift.
▪ And Cowher has revealed just enough intellectual depth to assure women that he is not a stupid brute.
▪ Overnight the world has opened up and revealed its depth and colour.
▪ The 20-bit master revealed audible improvements in depth, breadth and clarity.
show
▪ This proprietary blend shows tremendous depth and concentration, with generous blackberry fruit and hints of chocolate and blueberry.
▪ His letter is worth quoting as it shows the depth of feeling and suspicion in the Services at that time.
▪ This full-bodied, lush wine shows impressive complexity and depth for one so inexpensive.
▪ In novice mode, the screen shows current depth, no-stop time, dive time and cylinder contents.
▪ The dive planning screen is a look-ahead facility showing a selection of depths and no-stop times depending on your current decompression status.
▪ A bar graph shows present depth and maximum depth reached.
▪ These internal appointments show the depth of management in the Company.
sink
▪ But once she had tried it on, her spirits sank once more to unprecedented depths.
▪ Mr Mallory was smoking behind a newspaper, sunk in the depths of his arm-chair.
study
▪ Nevertheless the specific problems and prospects of the churches' own media need to be studied in greater depth.
▪ And the short story is studied in depth in school and college.
▪ In fact, you won't have to pay a penny until you've studied your policy in depth.
▪ In the third and fourth years, a wider range of authors is studied in greater depth.
▪ Therefore we need to study in greater depth the role played by television and other visual media in contemporary society.
▪ Certainly the boards we studied in more depth had made serious efforts to understand their duties and responsibilities.
▪ The Diploma gives a choice of studying in depth three out of ten subjects.
▪ Nine multi-divisional companies are studied in depth with interviews conducted at corporate, division and operating unit level.
understand
▪ What is vital is that you understand the depth of feelings involved here.
▪ Nor did they understand the depth of our cultural assumptions about gender roles.
▪ Mr. Tom King I have received many such representations and I well understand the depth of feeling on the part of those expressing their concern.
▪ But merely examining national poverty statistics is not sufficient to understand the depth of poverty in the United States.
▪ She did not pretend to understand such depth of feeling.
▪ Not disinterested; he is certainly smart enough to understand the depth and breadth of his blessings.
▪ It does not take much imagination to understand the depth of grief that the parents feel at the loss of their baby.
▪ Even at age three she understood the depth of the commitment certain people have for her.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
plumb the depths (of despair/misery/bad taste etc)
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Buckeye Lake reaches depths of eight to ten feet.
▪ Network news coverage often lacks depth.
▪ The depth of the pond varies with the rainfall.
▪ The drawers have a depth of 16 inches.
▪ The plants need sand with a depth of at least 10 to 15 cm to grow.
▪ The poll results indicate the depth of public concern about the economy.
▪ The ship's navigational equipment can measure the depth of the water.
▪ Their national team will have a little more depth this year.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But this is a play which combines surface brilliance with a surprising depth of feeling.
▪ In summer the gardens would have looked colourful and pretty but somehow in the depths of the Provençal winter they appeared melancholy.
▪ The intermediary requires a greater depth in instruction.
▪ The One, without name or form, is the infinite depth, the unlimited ocean of being.
▪ The result has been to produce a society of great institutional depth.
▪ There, the themes of depth, impenetrable darkness, water, abandonment, corruption and death are all present at once.
▪ Therefore I felt I could just mention them but not go into depth.
▪ They allow us to externalize what we hold in our own subconscious depths.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Depth

Depth \Depth\ (s[e^]pth), n. [From Deep; akin to D. diepte, Icel. d[=y]pt, d[=y]p[eth], Goth. diupi[thorn]a.]

  1. 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.

  2. Profoundness; extent or degree of intensity; abundance; completeness; as, depth of knowledge, or color.

    Mindful of that heavenly love Which knows no end in depth or height.
    --Keble.

  3. Lowness; as, depth of sound.

  4. 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.

    From you unclouded depth above.
    --Keble.

    The depth closed me round about.
    --Jonah ii.

  5. 5. (Logic) The number of simple elements which an abstract conception or notion includes; the comprehension or content.

  6. (Horology) A pair of toothed wheels which work together.

  7. (A["e]ronautics) The perpendicular distance from the chord to the farthest point of an arched surface.

  8. (Computers) the maximum number of times a type of procedure is reiteratively called before the last call is exited; -- of subroutines or procedures which are reentrant; -- used of call stacks.

    Depth of a sail (Naut.), the extent of a square sail from the head rope to the foot rope; the length of the after leach of a staysail or boom sail; -- commonly called the drop of a sail.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
depth

late 14c., apparently formed in Middle English on model of length, breadth; from Old English deop "deep" (see deep) + -th (2). Replaced older deopnes "deepness." Though the English word is relatively recent, the formation is in Proto-Germanic, *deupitho-, and corresponds to Old Saxon diupitha, Dutch diepte, Old Norse dypð, Gothic diupiþa.

Wiktionary
depth

n. 1 The vertical distance below a surface; the degree to which something is deep. 2 The distance between the front and the back, as the depth of a drawer or closet. 3 (context figuratively English) The intensity, complexity, strength, seriousness or importance of an emotion, situation, etc. 4 Lowness. 5 (context computing colors English) The total palette of available colors. 6 (context arts photography English) The property of appearing three-dimensional. 7 (context literary usually plural English) The deepest part. (Usually of a body of water.) 8 (context literary usually plural English) A very remote part. 9 The most severe part. 10 (context logic English) The number of simple elements which an abstract conception or notion includes; the comprehension or content. 11 (context horology English) A pair of toothed wheels which work together. 12 (context statistics English) The lower of the two ranks of a value in an ordered set of values.

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WordNet
depth

  1. n. extent downward or backward or inward; "the depth of the water"; "depth of a shelf"; "depth of a closet"

  2. degree of psychological or intellectual depth

  3. (usually plural) the deepest and most remote part; "from the depths of darkest Africa"; "signals received from the depths of space"

  4. (usually plural) a low moral state; "he had sunk to the depths of addiction"

  5. the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas [syn: astuteness, profundity, profoundness]

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Wikipedia
Depth

Depth(s) may refer to:

  • Three-dimensional space
  • Depth (ring theory), an important invariant of rings and modules in commutative and homological algebra
  • Depth in a well, the measurement between two points in an oil well
  • Color depth (or "number of bits" or "bit depth"), in computer graphics
  • Market depth, in financial markets, the size of an order needed to move the market a given amount
  • Moulded depth, a nautical measurement
Depth (ring theory)

In commutative and homological algebra, depth is an important invariant of rings and modules. Although depth can be defined more generally, the most common case considered is the case of modules over a commutative Noetherian local ring. In this case, the depth of a module is related with its projective dimension by the Auslander–Buchsbaum formula. A more elementary property of depth is the inequality

depth(M) ≤ dim(M), 

where dim M denotes the Krull dimension of the module M. Depth is used to define classes of rings and modules with good properties, for example, Cohen-Macaulay rings and modules, for which equality holds.

Depth (video game)

Depth is a Indie video game developed by Digital Confectioners and released for Microsoft Windows in 2014. It is a asymmetrical multiplayer game pitting a number of treasure hunting divers against sharks.

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Usage examples of "depth".

Of course, if we merely abreact them each day and repeat them again the next, we are not doing ourselves very much good, for although we may have neutralised that particular portion of karma, we are acquiring plenty more of an even more unpleasant nature, for we are making sure of a place for ourselves in the hell reserved for hypocrites, and anything more painful than the unmasking of a hypocrite to the depths of his selfish and cowardly soul it is hard to imagine.

The fear of the Invaders, that dark shadow in the depths of every human mind, turned your people against the world and made them lose themselves in their own dreams.

When pressed for room, the Aleut has been known to crawl head foremost, body whole, right under the manhole and lie there prone between the feet of the paddlers with nothing between him and the abysmal depths of a hissing sea but the parchment keel of the bidarka, thin as paper.

Nadon went to the cantina, thinking furiously, wondering how he might best lure Alima into the dangerous depth of his own personal biosphere.

Another Alsatia existed depths beneath the soot-rimed surface of timber, stone and thatch, behind a hundred wainscots and boarded entranceways.

Then shadows moved up from the bruise-black depths, shading more and more of the writhing billows of cumulus and nimbus, finally climbing into the high cirrus and pond-rippled altocumulus, but at first the shadows brought not grayness or darkness, but an infinite palette of subtleties: gleaming gold dimming to bronze, pure white becoming cream and then dimming to sepia and shade, crimson with the boldness of spilled blood slowly darkening to the rust-red of dried blood, then fading to an autumnal tawny russet.

How does the Ammophila, hovering over the turf and investigating it far and wide, in its search for a grey grub, contrive to discern the precise point in the depth of the subsoil where the larva is slumbering in immobility?

As the sunlight rose across the water Kerans gazed down into the green translucent depths, at the warm amnionic jelly through which he swam in his dreams.

When they came to their point of departure a mile off the Amoy harbor, the sub came up to periscope depth and the captain checked all around.

In 2000 the team that pinpointed the ancient shoreline near Sinope found a shipwreck from late antiquity in 320 metres of water, its wonderfully preserved hull an indication of the archaeological marvels that may lie elsewhere in the anoxic depths of the sea.

It was as if the knowledge he gained in this way was truly his, and he had the irrational idea that it might somehow cushion his fall if the dreaded tumble into Apollonian depths ever came.

Do you eat meat, Apollonius, or the shining fish that light the depths of the sea?

For almost four days the Archerfish had crept through the depths, making up speed when she thought she was in safe waters.

Other robots, small cars on caterpillar tracks, operated by Archimedean screws moved noiselessly down into the depths.

In Arda his delight is in the winds and the clouds, and in all the regions of the air, from the heights to the depths, from the utmost borders of the Veil of Arda to the breezes that blow in the grass.