Definition of dept
1. depth [ n ] extent downward or backward or inward
Examples: : "the depth of the water"
"depth of a shelf"
"depth of a closet"
(Norman Kent, "The Watercolor Art of Roy M. Mason"...)
In following this general principle , Mason provides the observer with a natural eye progression from foreground to background , and the illusion of depth is instantly created .
(L. Don Leet and Florence J. Leet, editors, The World of...)
The greater the depth of the water , the greater is the speed of the wave ; Lagrange 's law says that its velocity is equal to the square_root of the product of the depth times the acceleration due_to gravity .
The greater the depth of the water , the greater is the speed of the wave ; Lagrange 's law says that its velocity is equal to the square_root of the product of the depth times the acceleration due_to gravity .
The waves of a 1923 tsunami in Sagami_Bay brought to the surface and battered to death huge numbers of fishes that normally live at a depth of 3000 feet .
By means of charts showing wave travel times and depths in the ocean at various locations , it is possible to estimate the rate of approach and probable time_of_arrival at Hawaii of a tsunami getting under_way at any spot in the Pacific .
Synonyms depth Related Terms extent penetration shallowness sounding deepness draft deep deep shallow shallow2. depth [ n ] degree of psychological or intellectual depth
Used in print:(Philip Reaves, "Who Rules the Marriage Bed?"...)
And an additional factor was helping to make women more sexually self-assertive - the comparatively recent discovery of the true depths of female desire and response .
(Bell I. Wiley, "Home Letters of Johnny Reb and Billy...)
Owing to the restrained usages characteristic of 19_th century America , these letters usually were stereotyped and revealed little depth of feeling .
(Tom F. Driver, "Beckett by the Madeleine,"...)
At the moment of crisis it had no_more depth than an old school tie .
(John F. Hayward, "Mimesis and Symbol in the Arts"...)
Mimesis is the nearest possible thing to the actual re-living of experience , in which the imagining person recovers through images something of the force and depth characteristic of experience itself .
(Robert E. Lane, The Liberties of Wit: Humanism, Critici...)
I would say , too , that the study of literature tends to give a person what I shall call depth .
Synonyms depth Related Terms degree superficiality profundity3. depth [ n ] (usually plural) the deepest and most remote part
Examples:
"from the depths of darkest Africa"
"signals received from the depths of space"
4. depth [ n ] (usually plural) a low moral state
Examples:
"he had sunk to the depths of addiction"
5. depth [ n ] the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas
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