Depth

Definition: Depth

Depth

Noun

1. Extent downward or backward or inward: "the depth of the water"; "depth of a shelf"; "depth of a closet".

2. Degree of psychological or intellectual depth.

3. (usually plural) the deepest and most remote part; "from the depths of darkest Africa"; "signals received from the depths of space".

4. (usually plural) a low moral state; "he had sunk to the depths of addiction".

5. The intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "depth" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Electrical Engineering

Food & Agriculture

Geography

Industry

Math

Mining

Statistics

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Depth

Cold

Winter; depth of winter, hard winter; Siberia, Nova Zembla; wind-chill factor.

Depth

Soundings, depth of water, water, draught, submersion; plummet, sound, probe; sounding rod, sounding line; lead.

Noun: depth; deepness; Adjective: profundity, depression; (concavity).

Adverb: beyond one's depth, out of one's depth; over head and ears; mark twine, mark twain.

Difficulty

Reduced to straits; hard pressed, sorely pressed; run hard; pinched, put to it, straitened; hard up, hard put to it, hard set; put to one's shifts; puzzled, at a loss; (uncertain); at the end of one's tether, at the end of one's rope, at one's wit's end, at a nonplus, at a standstill; graveled, nonplused, nonplussed, stranded, aground; stuck fast, set fast; up a tree, at bay, aux abois, driven into a corner, driven from pillar to post, driven to extremity, driven to one's wit's end, driven to the wall; au bout de son Latin; out of one's depth; thrown out.

Impossibility

Out of one's power, beyond one's power, beyond one's depth, beyond one's reach, beyond one's grasp; too much for; ultra crepidam.

Intelligence Wisdom

Wisdom, sapience, sense; good sense, common sense, horse sense, plain sense; rationality, reason; reasonableness; adj; judgment; solidity, depth, profundity, caliber; enlarged views; reach of thought, compass of thought; enlargement of mind.

Measurement

Bathometer, galvanometer, heliometer, interferometer, odometer, ombrometer, pantometer, pluviometer, pneumatometer, pneumometer, radiometer, refractometer, respirometer, rheometer, spirometer, telemeter, udometer, vacuometer, variometer, viameter, thermometer, thermistor (heat), barometer (air), anemometer (wind), dynamometer, goniometer (angle) meter; landmark; (limit); balance, scale; (weight); marigraph, pneumatograph, stethograph; rain gauge, rain gage; voltmeter(volts), ammeter(amps); spectrophotometer (light absorbance); mass spectrophotometer(molecular mass); geiger counter, scintillation counter(radioactivity); pycnometer (liquid density); graduated cylinder, volumetric flask (volume); radar gun (velocity); radar (distance); side-looking radar (shape, topography); sonar (depth in water); light meter (light intensity); clock, watch, stopwatch, chronometer (time); anemometer (wind velocity); densitometer (color intensity).

Pain

Unhappiness, infelicity, misery, tribulation, wretchedness, desolation; despair; extremity, prostration, depth of misery.

Plunge

Get out of one's depth; go to the bottom, go down like a stone, drop like a lead balloon; founder, welter, wallow.

Rashness

Carry too much sail, sail too near the wind, ride at single anchor, go out of one's depth.

Shortcoming

Adjective: unreached; deficient; short, short of; minus; out of depth; perfunctory; (neglect).

Speech

Phrase: quoth he, said he; "action is eloquence"; "pour the full tide of eloquence along"; "she speaks poignards and every word stabs"; "speech is but broken light upon the depth of the unspoken; "to try thy eloquence now 'tis time.

Thought

Abstract thought, abstraction contemplation, musing; brown study; (inattention); reverie, Platonism; depth of thought, workings of the mind, thoughts, inmost thoughts; self-counsel self-communing, self-consultation; philosophy of the Absolute, philosophy of the Academy, philosophy of the Garden, philosophy of the lyceum, philosophy of the Porch.

Unintelligibility

Inconceivable, inconceptible; searchless; above comprehension, beyond comprehension, past comprehension; beyond one's depth; unconceived.

Crosswords: Depth

And to be played by an actress with such depth and range (Scream 3; writing credit: Ehren Kruger)

Sometimes your shallowness is so thorough, it's almost like depth. (Daria; writing credit: Glenn Eichler; Peggy Nicoll)

I've always wondered what could be beyond height and width, depth and time (Farscape; writing credit: Olivier Cauvin)

A divine music bursts out over them all. A great mass of death! Requiem mass for Wolfgang Mozart, composed by his dear friend, Antonio Salieri! Oh what sublimity, what depth, what passion in the music (Amadeus; writing credit: Peter Shaffer;)

The depth of hula groove (Groove Is in the Heart; performing artist: Deee-Lite)

Old folks say, "The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth. (references; author: unknown)

Depth Charge (1960)

The Depth Bomb (1918)

Out of Depth (2000)

A Day on the Grand Canal with the Emperor of China or: Surface Is Illusion But So Is Depth (1988)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Depth Takes a Holiday: Essays from Lesser Los Angeles (reference)

• Matters of Light & Depth (reference)

• Technical Diving in Depth (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• 990 : Uk Diving In Depth (reference)

• CBS Soaps in Depth (reference)

• Soaps In Depth - Cbs (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Chin Na In Depth 1 (reference)

• Chin Na In Depth 3 (reference)

• Chin Na In Depth 4 (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Into the Depth of Time (reference)

• Nitric: Exploration into Depth of Hard Trance (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• 15in/14v Crt 28mm 1024x768 60hz105e11 Mprii Pnp Short Depth (reference)

• AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL SG650DX Speaker Depth Extender (reference)

• Apex Rack Mount Kit - 19IN Frame Full Depth 1U (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Milwaukee 49-96-0370 Above-The-Table Depth Wrench (reference)

• DeWalt DW6966 Fine Depth Adjuster (For DW625) (reference)

• Router Raizer RZ200 Precise Router Depth Adjuster (reference)

• DeWalt DW364K 7-1/4" Heavy Duty Circular Saw with Electric Brake and Rear Pivot Depth of Cut Adjustment with Kit Box (reference)

• Router Raizer 1001 Precise Router Depth Adjustment (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Precision depth recorder record of small seamount on side of Easter Island Acquired by Scripps Institution of Oceanography Record from ship THOMAS G. WASHINGTON. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Prototype "portable" depth recorder used as part of 808 fathometer system Bulletin 13 of the Association of Field Engineers, 1939, p. 102. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Acoustic sensors used with net mensurations system -- sensors measure depth and opening of trawl net. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Top instrument is omni sounder - bottom instrument is depth finder. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Group of tuna in the eastern chamber of the trap at Favignana. Depth 22 meters. Credit: Fisheries.

Photo taken in the chamber of death in the trap at Favignana. Depth 16 meters. Credit: Fisheries.

Locust Bayou between plug site 7 and the existing southeast trending oil access canal. This 6500 linear foot section of Locust Bayou silted up and was dredged out to its natural depth prior to construction of the project's plugs. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Trish Murphy, formerly of NOAA, takes a secchi depth reading to determine water turbidity and how it relates to the ability of the fish to recognize the sampling gillnets. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Cemented ash and talus at a depth of 755 m off Hawaii. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

Duckbill eel in a sand channel between basalt flows at 780 m depth. Nettastoma. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

At the end of the fighting last June, the American and British Armies withdrew westwards, in accordance with an earlier agreement, to a depth at some points of 150 miles upon a front of nearly four hundred miles, in order to allow our Russian allies to occupy this vast expanse of territory which the Western Democracies had conquered. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The thickness of the mass of bodies was proportioned to the depth of the hollow road

Moreover, in summer, Walden never becomes so warm as most water which is exposed to the sun, on account of its depth.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Now you are searching for more in- depth information. (references)

This rare form affects the sense of balance and depth perception. (references)

These methods include sphenoidal leads, subdural and epidural electrodes and grids, and depth electrodes placed stereotaxically. (references)

Business

Consequently, knowledge about clients and the depth of the relationship with them are critical factors. (references)

Large refineries and the prevailing secondary catalytic process ensure the depth of the processing process. (references)

For a more in depth study of the general agricultural sector, please refer to the late 1998 this report for Agricultural Machinery and Equipment. (references)

Civil Liberties

Peru

Revelations of the scope and depth of media corruption under the Fujimori administration have affected public confidence in the media, particularly television. (references)

Honduras

When the news media attempted to report in depth on national politicians or official corruption, they continued to face obstacles, such as external pressures to desist from their investigations, artificially tight reporting deadlines, and a lack of access to Government information and independent sources. (references)

Economic History

Belgium

The Belgian economy has great depth and diversity. (references)

Trade

Netherlands

The Dutch tendency to support a level playing field in trade matters and their depth of experience in trade positions them as the genuine "neutral" traders of Europe. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

A depth

Expressions using "depth": be out of one's depth ♦ beyond one's depth ♦ collapse depth ♦ colour depth ♦ defense in depth ♦ depth absorbed dose ♦ depth ammeter ♦ depth bomb ♦ depth charge ♦ depth contour ♦ depth curve ♦ depth dose ♦ depth finder ♦ depth gage ♦ depth gauge ♦ depth indicator ♦ depth interview ♦ Depth of a sail ♦ depth of chest ♦ depth of feelings ♦ depth of field ♦ depth of gap ♦ depth of his feelings ♦ depth of misery ♦ depth of modulation ♦ depth of precipitation ♦ depth of pull ♦ depth of rainfall ♦ depth of the sea ♦ depth of throat ♦ depth of web ♦ Depth Perception ♦ depth psychology ♦ depth resolved spectroscopy ♦ depth rudder ♦ difference in depth of modulation ♦ expiratory depth ♦ focal depth ♦ from the depth of one's heart ♦ get out of one's depth ♦ go out of one's depth ♦ in depth ♦ in the depth of ♦ in the depth of one's heart ♦ maximum operating depth ♦ molded depth ♦ moulded depth ♦ moulded depth (of vessel) ♦ operational depth ♦ out of depth ♦ out of one's depth ♦ page depth ♦ precipitation depth ♦ rainfall depth ♦ ramming depth of interlocking sheet piles ♦ relative sequent depth of hydraulic jump ♦ safe depth ♦ smallest submerged depth ♦ sonic depth finder ♦ sound the depth of ♦ study smth. in depth ♦ test depth ♦ throat depth ♦ throat depth clearance ♦ water depth gauge. Additional references.

Beginning with "depth": depth-averaged, depth-charge, depth-charged, depth-charges, depth-contour, depth-converted, depth-defence, depth-dependent, depth-diameter, depth-first, depth-first search, depth-interview, depth-interviewing, depth-perception, depth-related.

Ending with "depth": defence-in-depth, in-depth, maturity-depth, time-depth, velocity-depth.

Containing "depth": come-on-fred-we-give-you-all-this-advertising-how-about-an-in-depth-profile, in-depth analysis, in-depth knowledge of, in-depth study.

Afrikaans

diepte. (various references)

Albanian

thellësi (bowels, deepness, distance, intensity, pregnancy, profoundness), mezi (barely, hardly, narrowly, nearly, only just, scarcely), intensitet (heaviness, poignancy). (various references)

Arabic 

‏قعر (bed, bottom, concave, dish, floor, foot, hollow), ‏عمق (deepen, heighten, profoundly, profoundness, profundity, spit), ‏جوف (abdomen, belly, cave, rebore, scoop, shovel), ‏أعماق (baths, bottom). (various references)

Bulgarian 

ширина (amplitude, ease, expanse, extent, latitude, width), наситеност (intensity, satiation, saturation), низина (bottom, flat, lowland), задълбочен (earnest, exhaustive, intimate, rapt, thoroughgoing), подробен (circumstantial, close, comprehensive, detailed, disquisitional, elaborate, explicit, narrow, nice, particular), дълбочина (deepness, intensity, inwardness, penetration, profundity). (various references)

Chinese 

深度 . (various references)

Czech

dùkladnost (closeness, soundness, thoroughness), výška (altitude, elevation, height, loftiness, pitch, tallness, thickness), upřímnost (candidness, candour, directness, fair dealing, frankness, honesty, openness, sincerity, true-heartedness), sytost (bellyful), intenzita (intensity, pitch, strength), hlubina (abyss, deep), hloubka (deepness, soundness). (various references)

Danish

dybde (ground). (various references)

Dutch

diepte (ground), kolk (abyss, chasm, gulf, pond, precipice). (various references)

Esperanto

profundo, profundeco, profundaĵo. (various references)

Faeroese

dýpi. (various references)

Farsi 

قعر, ژرفا, گودی (Delve, Dent, Dint, Groove, Lacuna, Valley), عمق . (various references)

Finnish

syvyys (abyss, deep). (various references)

French

profondeur (deepness). (various references)

Frisian

djipte (abyss, chasm, gulf, precipice), djippens. (various references)

German

Tiefe (abyss, chasm, deepness, depths, direness, gravity, gulf, heaviness, intenseness, intensity, lowness, precipice, profoundly, profoundness, profundity), höhe (altitude, amount, build, elevation, extent, heaviness, height, highness, Hill, latitude, level, loftiness, rate, size, summit, top, treble). (various references)

Greek 

βάθος (connotation, ground, intension). (various references)

Hebrew 

מעמק (abyss, profundity), מצלול (diving, euphony, sound, tone), מצולה (abyss, pond), מצול (abyss), תהום (abyss, chasm, pit), עמקות (profundity), עמק (plain, valley), עומק (deepness, profundity). (various references)

Hungarian

mélység (abyss, chasm, deep, deepness, depths, drop-off, gulf, precipice, profound, profoundness, profundity, the deep). (various references)

Indonesian

dalam (in, indoors, inside, interior, within), kedalaman (profundity). (various references)

Italian

profondità (bottom, deep, deepness, intensity), spessore (thickness), fondo (back, background, bed, bottom, deep, dregs, end, estate, floor, foundation, fund, ground, heart, lowness, nature, profound, property, seat, sole), fondale (backcloth, backdrop). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

深度 , 深浅 (shade), 深さ (profundity), 深味 (deep), 深み (deep place), 奥行き (length), 奥行 (length), 奥底　 (bottom of one's heart), 奥底 (bottom), 奥深さ (profundity). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おくぞこ (bottom), おくそこ (bottom), おくふかさ (profundity), おくゆき (length), しんど (elasticity, Japanese earthquake scale, progress, subsoil), しんせん (dyeing, food and alcohol offering to the gods, fresh, mountain wizard, shade), ふかさ (profundity), ふかみ (deep, deep place). (various references)

Korean 

깊이. (various references)

Manx

diunid (deep; rootedness, depth of colour, gulf). (various references)

Norwegian

dyp (deep, low, profound), dybde. (various references)

Papiamen

profundidat. (various references)

Pig Latin

epthday.(various references)

Portuguese

profundidade (deep, deepness, fathom, profundity, thoroughness), profundeza (deepness, profundity), fundo (back, background, bottom, deep, foundation, fund, gist, ground, grounding, groundwork, milieu, profound, rock bottom, sole, sunken, undercurrent). (various references)

Romanian

intensitate (emphasis, force, intension, intensity, loudness), adâncime (abyss, bottom, deep, deepness, height, horizon, pregnancy, profound, profoundness, profundity, wisdom), adâncituri (entrails), afund (bottom), afundiş (deep), şmecherie (art, artfulness, artifice, chouse, contrivance, craft, cunning, do, dodge, fetch, fiddle, sell, slyness, swindle, trickery), falsitate (artfulness, cunning, deceitfulness, double dealing, duplicity, fallacy, falsehood, falseness, falsity, hollowness, insincerity, mendacity, untruth), fund (back, background, bottom, buttocks, crown, end, floor, ground, head, rear, seat, sole), fund de apã, adânc (bottom, deep, deeply, great, heavy, low, penetrating, profound, secret, sound, thick, wise), grosime (bigness, breadth, bulk, bulkiness, height, stoutness, thickness), toi (brunt, heat), mijloc (center, centre, handle, instrumentality, mean, means, medium, method, middle, midst, resource, thick, vehicle, waist, way), mizerie (atrocity, beggary, distress, indigence, misery, pauperism, poorness, poverty, squalidity, squalor, troubles, want), prãpastie (abysm, abyss, chaos, chasm, disaster, gulf, hollow, precipice, ravine, scar, steep), profunzime (profound, profoundness), putere (authority, backbone, capacity, degree, energy, force, greatness, hold, in, jurisdiction, keenness, masterdom, mastery, measure, might, mightiness, nerve, pith, potency, power, puissance, punch, reign, resistance, right, rulership, sap, stamina, steam, strength, sturdiness, sway, vigor, vigorousness, vigour, vim), sãrãcie cumplitã (abject poverty), strãfund (being, bosom, entrails), tãrie (bitterness, energy, fastness, firmness, force, hardness, height, might, resolution, sky, solidity, steadfastness, stoutness, strength, vigor, vigour), temei (base, basis, bottom, ground, grounding, rudiment, spring), gravitate (austerity, bumptiousness, gravity, seriousness, severity, soberness, solemnity). (various references)

Russian 

толщина (fatness, thickness), глубь, глубинный (abyssal, depth-first), глубина глубинный, глубина (deep, deepness, profound, profoundness, profundity, thoroughness), высота (altitude, height, inches, level, pitch, tallness). (various references)

Scottish

doimhneachd, doimhne (the deep). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

dubinski (deep sea), dubina (bottom, deep, deepness, depths, profoundness, profundity). (various references)

Spanish

profundidad (deepness, profoundness, profundity), intensidad (end, fierceness, intension, intensity, poignancy, sharpness, strength), hondura (ichor, lowness). (various references)

Swedish

djup (bathos, deep, deepness, dept, depths, full, fullness, fulness, great, intimate, keen, low, profound, profoundness), djuphet. (various references)

Turkish

dip (base, bottom, fag end, far end, foot, fundament, ground), derinlik (abyss, deep, deepness, perspective, profoundness, profundity), yoğunluk (compactness, congestion, consistence, consistency, denseness, density, intenseness, intension, intensity, thickness, turbidity, volume), en derin nokta, bilinçaltı (id, subconscious, subliminal, the subconscious), ahlâk azlığı. (various references)

Turkmen 

jьmmью (center), зuсluk (remoteness). (various references)

Ukrainian

глибочінь (deep, deepness), глибина (bathos, deep, deepness, profound, profoundness, profundity), западина (cave, cavity, concave, concavity, delve, fossa, pit, sink), безодня (abysm, abyss, chasm, deep, precipice, profundity, yawn). (various references)

Vietnamese 

trình độ chỗ sâu, tầm hiểu biết (purview), năng lực (ability, bump, calibre, competence, quality), chiều sâu, chỗ thầm kín, bề sâu, độ sâu, đáy (head). (various references)

Welsh

dyfndra (deepness), dyfnder (deep), iselder (depression, lowness), eigion (ocean). (various references)

Yucatec

niixil kab. (various references)

du, sur. (various references)

bathos. (various references)

alta, alti, altis, altitudine, altitudinem, altitudines, altitudinis, altitudo, alto, altum. (various references)

jãfnavô. (various references)

deop. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "depth": depthless, depths. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Depth" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: daph, debth, Deeth, Deith, Demphu, denth, deph, depht, depmt, depty, det, deth, detha, diph, dipty, dith, dooth, Dowth, dpt, dupt, duth, hepth, Jepthe. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: edh, eth, hep, het, ped, peh, pet, pht, ted, the.

-3 letters: de, ed, eh, et, he, pe.

+1 letter: depths, heptad, pithed.

+2 letters: heptads, patched, photoed, pitched, pithead, pothead, spathed, thumped.

+3 letters: deathcup, despatch, dustheap, philtred, phonated, pitheads, plighted, potheads, pothered, potholed, potsherd, theropod, threaped, threeped, trophied.

+4 letters: apartheid, asphalted, atrophied, bethumped, cadetship, chapleted, chaptered, deathcups, deathtrap, depthless, dustheaps, endophyte, hepatized, outpushed, philtered, potholder, potsherds, preheated, printhead, repatched, splotched, stepchild, sulphated, telphered, therapsid, theropods, trephined, triumphed, uplighted, uprighted, upshifted.