deep vs shallow

Definitions

adjective

1. of an obscure nature
2. relatively deep or strong; affecting one deeply
3. having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range
4. difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge
5. very distant in time or space

adverb

1. to a great depth; far down or in
2. to an advanced time
3. to a great distance

noun

1. a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor
2. the central and most intense or profound part
3. literary term for an ocean

Examples

Their dried dung is found everywhere, and is in many places the only fuel afforded by the plains; their skulls, which last longer than any other part of the animal, are among the most familiar of objects to the plainsman; their bones are in many districts so plentiful that it has become a regular industry, followed by hundreds of men (christened "bone hunters" by the frontiersmen), to go out with wagons and collect them in great numbers for the sake of the phosphates they yield; and Bad Lands, plateaus, and prairies alike, are cut up in all directions by the deep ruts which were formerly buffalo trails.

I walked out of the theatre feeling a little odd, as I often do when I have been deeply immersed in a film.

The beak is smoth, black, convex and cultrated; one and 1/8 inches from the point to the opening of the chaps and 3/4 only uncovered with feathers; the upper chap exceeds the other a little in length. a few small black hairs garnish the sides of the base of the upper chap. the eye is of a uniform deep sea green or black, moderately large. it's legs feet and tallons are white; the legs are an inch and a 1/4 in length and smoth; four toes on each foot, of which that in front is the same length with the leg including the length of the tallon, which is 4 lines; the three remaining toes are

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Definitions

verb

1. make shallow
2. become shallow

noun

1. a stretch of shallow water

adjective

1. lacking physical depth; having little spatial extension downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or outward from a center
2. lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with what is obvious
3. not deep or strong; not affecting one deeply

Examples

This was followed by a level stretch of grassy scree which leads to the crux, a steep shallow chimney, well marked by crampon scratches.

Architecturally they incorporate the low roofs, polygonal towers and shallow, semicircular domes of the Byzantine mode.

Place in a shallow dish and squeeze over lemon juice, then drizzle over oil.

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