Word Finder - depths

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The vertical distance below a surface; the degree to which something is deep

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Measure the depth of the water in this part of the bay.

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• deepness
• lowness

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The distance between the front and the back, as the depth of a drawer or closet

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The intensity, complexity, strength, seriousness or importance of an emotion, situation, etc.

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The depth of her misery was apparent to everyone.

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Lowness

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the depth of a sound

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(colors) the total palette of available colors

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The property of appearing three-dimensional

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The depth of field in this picture is amazing.

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(usually in the plural) the deepest part (usually of a body of water)

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The burning ship finally sunk into the depths.

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(usually in the plural) a very remote part.

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In the depths of the night,

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The most severe part

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in the depth of the crisis

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The number of simple elements which an abstract conception or notion includes; the comprehension or content

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A pair of toothed wheels which work together

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The perpendicular distance from the chord to the farthest point of an arched surface

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The lower of the two ranks of a value in an ordered set of values

His groan brought an echo from the depths of her soul and she pressed closer.

His eyes were as dark as the ocean depths, his grip around her body unmovable.

He was quiet, unaware of the depths of her hurt until now.

While she didn't yet understand the depths of her new world, she found peace in knowing this was indeed her world, too.

He studied her, dark depths taking her in with quiet intensity she was not yet accustomed to.

He was freezing and drenched.  He tested his power and found it wasn't just calm – it was bound.  He couldn't access its depths, couldn't call upon a portal to send the damn angel home.

Toby's heart somersaulted in his breast, and he tried hard to reach the depths of the powers that would be his when he was just a little older.

She maneuvered that way now, leaning against rocks to peer into dark depths.

The sun pushed aside the shadows as it emerged from the depths of the distant sea until it sat on the horizon, casting long shadows and brilliant bars of light into the walled city.

One hauled it open, and she peered into the impenetrable depths.

He couldn't yet understand the magic in his veins, unleashed by the vamp without any explanation of its depths.

Deidre sat down on the beach, mesmerized by the movement of the clear teal depths rushing ashore.

He dug out his black notebook from the depths of a desk drawer and held it out to her.

It stands up from the ocean depths in three fairly well-marked terraces.

And it grows, merges, disappears from the surface, sinks to the depths, and again emerges.

A matte finish is without any form of shine, but the inner depths of the gold give the earrings a unique feel.

His favourite dwelling-place is a cavern in the depths of the Aegean.

This intermediate region, which has Atlantic characteristics down to 300 fathoms, and at greater depths belongs more properly to the Arctic Sea, commonly receives the name of Norwegian Sea.

Looking into the immensity of space, man also looks into the depths of godhead.

In Mela we find the Druids teaching in the depths of a forest or in caverns.

Such cars are in use at a number of deep inclined shafts in the Lake Superior copper district, where the depths range from 3000 to 5000 ft.

The special difficulties which attend deep mining, in addition to the problems of hoisting ore and raising water from great depths, are the increase of temperature of the rocks and the pressure of the overlying strata.

So thought the Emperor, and the Russian commanders and people were still more provoked at the thought that our forces were retreating into the depths of the country.

Natasha was gazing at her, but seemed afraid and in doubt whether to say all she knew or not; she seemed to feel that before those luminous eyes which penetrated into the very depths of her heart, it was impossible not to tell the whole truth which she saw.

She stopped at the edge of where the clear water dropped suddenly into impenetrable blue depths.

Her eyes went to it, and he saw confusion in their depths.

Rhyn rose and crossed to the small cave, peering into its depths.

The flare in her eyes drew him, promised of passionate depths.

When she looked again into its depths, she saw the clumps of herbs at the bottom.

Four steps in, the stone bottom dropped out from under him, and he all but dropped her into the depths of the Springs.

He dug his dirty hands into the depths of the folded cloak, relishing the feel of it, then hugged it.

The smoke funneled into the red ruby, disappearing into its depths.

He loved to learn them, to explore the depths of the human motivation for keeping them and eventually, to use them against those around him.

Her lips were parted as if for kisses, her eyes large enough, he saw himself reflected in their depths.

Another bank i ioo fathoms from the surface runs south from the east end of Crete, separating the Pola Deep from the depths of the Levant basin, in which a depth of 1960 fathoms was recorded near Makri on the coast of Asia Minor.

Dr Natterer, the chemist of the " Pola " expeditions, has expressed the opinion that the poverty of the pelagic fauna is solely due to the want of circulation in the depths.

Neither Hegelianism nor Aristotelianism is "vital" enough to sound the depths of religious life.

Strutt has suggested that helium in hot springs may be derived from the disintegration of common rocks at great depths.

The terrace closest to the land, known as the continental shelf, has an average depth of 600 ft., and connects Australia, New Guinea, and Tasmania in one unbroken sweep. Compared with other continents, the Australian continental shelf is extremely narrow, and there are points on the eastern coast where the land plunges down to oceanic depths with an abruptness rarely paralleled.

North of the fiftieth parallel the depths diminish towards the north-east, two long submarine ridges of volcanic origin extend north-eastwards to the southwest of Iceland and to the Faeroe Islands, and these, with their intervening valleys, end in a transverse ridge connecting Greenland, through Iceland and the Faeroe Islands, with Northwestern Scotland and the continental mass of Europe.

Below 500 fathoms the western centres of maximum disappear, and higher temperatures occur in the eastern Atlantic off the Iberian peninsula and north-western Africa down to at least 1000 fathoms; at still greater depths temperature gradually becomes more and more uniform.

The chief facts already established are the greater saltness of the North Atlantic compared with the South Atlantic at all.depths, and the low salinity at all depths in the eastern equatorial region, off the Gulf of Guinea.

Where surface water is banked up against the land, as by the equatorial and Gulf Stream drift currents, it appears to penetrate to very considerable depths; the escaping stream currents are at first of great vertical thickness and part of the water at their sources has a downward movement.

Teredo navalis, it has been found necessary, for depths not exceeding 300 fathoms, to protect the core with a thin layer of brass tape.

From the continuous records of slack and strain combined with the weight of the cable it is a simple matter to calculate and plot the depths along the whole route of the cable as actually laid.

Owing to the experience gained with many thousands of miles of cable in all depths and under varying conditions of weather and climate, the risk, and consequently the cost, of laying has been greatly reduced.

In depths beyond the reach of wave motion, and apart from suspension across a submarine gully, which will sooner or later result in a rupture of the cable, the most frequent cause of interruption is seismic or other shifting of the ocean bed, while in shallower waters and near the shore the dragging of anchors or 40 fishing trawls has been mostly responsible.

A third curve, from the south-easternmost promontory of the Peloponnese through Cerigo, Crete, Carpathos and Rhodes, marks off the outer deeps of the open Mediterranean from the shallow seas of the archipelago, but the Cretan Sea, in which depths occur over 1000 fathoms, intervenes, north of the line, between it and the Aegean proper.

Taking the Atlantic as our simplest type, we may say that the surface of an ocean basin resembles that of a mighty trough or syncline, buckled up more or less centrally in a medial ridge, which is bounded by two long and deep marginal hollows, in the cores of which still deeper grooves sink to the profoundest depths.

The picturesque Bureya Mountains above the Amur, the forest-clad Sikhota-alin on the Pacific, and the volcanic chains of Kamchatka belong, however, to quite another orographical construction, being the border-ridges of the terraces by which the great plateau formation descends to the depths of the Pacific Ocean.