depth
(noun) degree of psychological or intellectual profundity
depth
(noun) 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”
depth, deepness
(noun) the extent downward or backward or inward; “the depth of the water”; “depth of a shelf”; “depth of a closet”
astuteness, profundity, profoundness, depth, deepness
(noun) the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas
depth
(noun) (usually plural) a low moral state; “he had sunk to the depths of addiction”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
depth (countable and uncountable, plural depths)
the vertical distance below a surface; the degree to which something is deep
Synonyms: deepness, lowness
the distance between the front and the back, as the depth of a drawer or closet
(figuratively) the intensity, complexity, strength, seriousness or importance of an emotion, situation, etc.
lowness
(computing, colors) the total palette of available colors
(arts, photography) the property of appearing three-dimensional
(literary, usually, in the plural) the deepest part (usually of a body of water)
(literary, usually, in the plural) a very remote part.
the most severe part
(logic) the number of simple elements which an abstract conception or notion includes; the comprehension or content
(horology) a pair of toothed wheels which work together
(aeronautics) the perpendicular distance from the chord to the farthest point of an arched surface
(statistics) the lower of the two ranks of a value in an ordered set of values
• (deep place): abyss, bottom, bathos, nadir
Source: Wiktionary
Depth, n. Etym: [From Deep; akin to D. diepte, Icel. d, d, Goth. diupi.]
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)
Definition: The number of simple elements which an abstract conception or notion includes; the comprehension or content.
6. (Horology)
Definition: A pair of toothed wheels which work together. [R.]
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 sail.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 April 2024
(adjective) remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect; “a great crisis”; “had a great stake in the outcome”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
