high (Berg) vs deep
Definitions
adjective
- of an obscure nature
- relatively deep or strong; affecting one deeply
- having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range
- difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge
- very distant in time or space
adverb
- to a great depth; far down or in
- to an advanced time
- to a great distance
noun
- a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor
- the central and most intense or profound part
- 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.
A couple of phone calls, arranged by a deep-sea diver I came to know while working on a story on the Miskito Coast of Nicaragua, led me to an alternately boastful and paranoidly surreptitious man named Steve.
