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US
/ˈdɛpθ/
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[ UK /dˈɛpθ/ ]
[ UK /dˈɛpθ/ ]
NOUN
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the attribute or quality of being deep, strong, or intense
the depth of his breathing
the depth of his sighs
the depth of his emotion -
the extent downward or backward or inward
depth of a closet
depth of a shelf
the depth of the water - degree of psychological or intellectual profundity
- the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas
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(usually plural) a low moral state
he had sunk to the depths of addiction
How To Use depth In A Sentence
- Try to meet a boy with a little more depth than your current crop of potential beaus.
- The depth and rate of breathing are controlled by special centres in the brain, which influence the nerves that cause contraction and relaxation of the muscles of respiration.
- IBM does not publish the actual, in-depth details of how the optimizer determines the best access path, but the optimizer is a cost-based optimizer.
- It is probably a measure of the depths to which political conversation has sunk — all the more remarkable given the chaos that male leaders have through the generations created — that this non-gender-specific "ballsiness," as it were, is so frequently trotted out as a measure of high praise. Half-cocked
- Crank baits trolled parallel to the shore or over sand flats in the DIRTY water where wind is blowing waves into the shore or shallows is good too regardless of the depth. Whats a good bait to use for walleye? ive never caught one but we now have land at a lake that is stocked with some.
- The wine possesses a smoothness and balanced depth which is rare at such a low price.
- This process, called supergene enrichment, can concentrate silver into exceedingly rich deposits at depth.
- A mantid is the most humanlike of insects; it has its eyes arranged so that it can see forward, allowing it depth perception. The Killing Kind
- It is necessary to have lived in the depths of the French provinces to form an idea of the four brutifying years which the young fellow spent in this fashion. The Fortune of the Rougons
- The near-constant depth of the abyssal sea floor indicates that the lithosphere thickens to roughly 100 km in 70 million years, but then ceases to grow.