noun
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A shallow portion of an otherwise deep body of water.
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The ship ran aground in an unexpected shallow.
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A fish, the rudd.
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A costermonger's barrow.
verb
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To make or become less deep.
adjective
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Having little depth; significantly less deep than wide.
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Saute the onions in a shallow pan.
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Extending not far downward.
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The water is shallow here.
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Concerned mainly with superficial matters.
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It was a glamorous but shallow lifestyle.
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Lacking interest or substance.
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The acting is good, but the characters are shallow.
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Not intellectually deep; not penetrating deeply; simple; not wise or knowing.
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shallow learning
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Not deep in tone.
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Not far forward, close to the net.
Examples of shallow in a Sentence
His breathing was shallow and fast.
They are fresh, shallow and tideless.
There were tears on her face, and her breathing was shallow and ragged.
He crossed to it and saw a shallow bowl filled with water.
Acquaintances were shallow and many, but if a person had one true friend in a lifetime, they were blessed.
The upper Euphrates consists of two arms, which, rising on the Armenian plateau, and flowing west in long shallow valleys parallel to Mount Taurus, eventually unite and force their way southward through that range to the level of Mesopotamia.
The first reached the nearby stream and stumbled, falling to his knees in the center of its shallow waters.
Speechless, Katie couldn.t help thinking Gio was as shallow as her sister.
The Bebedero, in San Luis, and Porongos, in Cordoba, and others, are shallow, saline lakes which receive the drainage of a considerable area and have no outlet.
They are not like cups between the hills; for this one, which is so unusually deep for its area, appears in a vertical section through its centre not deeper than a shallow plate.
Its proximal end forms a shallow cup for articulation with the outer condyle of the humerus; the distal end bears a knob which fits into the radial carpal.
It is exceedingly shallow, however, and is not of much importance as a waterway.
Sometimes, also, when the ice was covered with shallow puddles, I saw a double shadow of myself, one standing on the head of the other, one on the ice, the other on the trees or hillside.
Her heartbeat was shallow and fast; her head felt like it was in a clamp.
When they stopped beside a wide shallow creek, he crouched with his back to her.
Instincts took her in the direction of the stream, and she reached the top of a shallow ravine in whose valley the stream flowed.
Shadows chased her up the stairs and flew down the halls, coating the floors and walls in shallow, black fog.
It is shallow, and the shores in its vicinity are covered with small timber.
One day Miss Sullivan attracted my attention to a strange object which she had captured basking in the shallow water.
A hunter told me that he once saw a fox pursued by hounds burst out on to Walden when the ice was covered with shallow puddles, run part way across, and then return to the same shore.
Dean examined the ground for tracks but the water, which while shallow, in most places covered the width of the narrow passageway and obliterated any footprints.
Scrambling to her feet again, she stumbled to shallow water.
It is picturesquely situated in a shallow defile of the Chiltern Hills, towards their western face.
Children ask profound questions, but they often receive shallow answers, or, to speak more correctly, they are quieted by such answers.
Behind the tent and its low, shallow steps was a small group of blond warriors surrounding a fifth man with darker skin and hair.
Her left foot found the first shallow step, and she took another step back, her eyes pinned on the second kitten running along the table.
Instead of retreating into the forest—the way they'd come—he walked behind a boulder and started up a set of long, shallow steps leading up the mountain.
His attention shifted to his mother, whose breathing was shallow enough, he barely heard it with his super sensitive hearing.
Immediately before the Civil War, petroleum was discovered in shallow wells near Parkersburg, and there was a great rush of prospectors and speculators to the Little Kanawha Valley.
He holds that such philosophy is too shallow for theology.
In the northern part of Corrientes there is a large area of swamps and shallow lagoons which are believed to be slowly drying up.
The catkins appear soon after the young leaves, usually in England towards the end of May; the acorns, oblong in form, are in shallow cups with short, scarcely projecting scales; the fruit is shed the first autumn, often before the foliage changes.
South of the port is the shallow entrance to the Lagoa do Norte, or Lagoa Mundahu, a salt-water lake extending inland for some miles.
This was constructed of a shallow box placed in a vertical position, with metallic front and back and insulating sides.
The rivers are small and shallow.
Your cut was shallow.
Brandon rolled his eyes before he disappeared down the same shallow hallway Ashley had.
Of a wholly different character is the Lago di Varese, between the Lago Maggiore and that of Lugano, which is a mere shallow expanse of water, surrounded by hills of very moderate elevation.
Deep holes in the ground, rimmed with black, pockmarked the shallow valley.
He trotted up a set of shallow stairs chiseled into the mountain to the helipad where Dan waited.
Marya Ignatevna Peronskaya, a thin and shallow maid of honor at the court of the Dowager Empress, who was a friend and relation of the countess and piloted the provincial Rostovs in Petersburg high society, was to accompany them to the ball.
Next in size is the Lago Trasimeno, a broad expanse of shallow waters, about 30 m.
The umbrella is shallow and has the margin supported by a rim of thickened ectoderm, as in the Trachomedusae, but not so strongly developed.
It occurs in the Hukawng valley, in the Nangotaimaw hills, where it is irregularly worked in shallow pits.
Ordinarily shallow, the rivers after heavy rain fill with great rapidity, sweeping away everything in their path.
The next step is to remove the harvested crop to the drying-shed; primed leaves are placed at once in shallow baskets or boxes, and when under cover are strung on string or on wire and hung up on laths in the barn.
They were built up by the gradual accumulation of mud deposits in a shallow bay, separated by dunes from the North Sea.
Except on extremely heavy soils or on shallow soils with a subsoil which it is unwise to bring upon the surface, the modern tendency is in favour of the digging plough.
The only natural harbour is Carlisle Bay on the south-western coast, which, however, is little better than a shallow roadstead, only accessible to light draught vessels.
The smaller enclosed seas are for the most part very shallow.